Exhibit Developer - Houston, United States - The Children's Museum Houston

The Children's Museum Houston

Verified Company

Houston, United States

1 week ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Children's Museum Houston transforms communities through innovative, child-centered learning that improves the trajectories of all children.

Children's Museum of Houston and the Discovery Center connect children and families with experiences that they can customize to suit their own learning interests.

These experiences are designed to offer foundational learning opportunities, provide parents with the support they need in their role as the first teachers of their children, and reinforce learning that occurs in school.

Equally important are ongoing efforts to remain accessible and welcoming to those with special needs.

Job Summary:

The Exhibit Developer is responsible for the research, management, implementation, installation, and striking of primarily long-term exhibitions at both the Children's Museum Houston (CMH) and Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center (FBCDC).

This person is also responsible for supporting the Faithful Friends Project Developer in design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Faithful Friends, a project designed to engage families in exploration and dialogue about religious beliefs, traditions, and identities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Long Term Exhibitions (supervised by Director of Exhibit Development)

Collaborate with the Exhibit and Program Development Team to identify and progress strategically essential work that drives forward the Museum's Mission and provides the best possible visitor experience through the core values of belonging, play, learning, and inspiration.
Generate exhibit content from concepts through sign writing, component design, and ingallery experiences.
Work with Exhibit Development, Gallery Educator, and Visitor Experience teams to research and develop additions to exhibitions at both CMH and FBCDC.
Work with internal staff and contractors to plan and implement long term exhibit updates including but not limited to floor plans, style guides, and decorative and educational enhancements.
Assist with prototyping and exhibit development and design.
Manage the tasks and timeline for the implementation of longterm exhibit updates with other teams including but not limited to promotions, development, and branding.
Provide ingallery support for installations as needed.
Monitor expenditures in compliance with approved budget.
Create exhibit condition report for all longterm exhibit pieces going into storage.
Assist with annual budget generation.
Attend department meetings, monthly full staff meetings and other meetings as required.

Faithful Friends (supervised by Faithful Friends Project Developer)

Exhibit Development
Support the completion of a 1,800 sq ft multilingual exhibit, using the preliminary concept developed during the planning phase and included in the Lilly Endowment proposal.
Ensure that the Faithful Friends contractors
Argyle Design, Inc.; Heartland Scenic Studios, Trivium, and Garibay Group have signed contracts and follow these agreements.
Participate in weekly project management and updating meetings with CMH key staff and as needed with contractors.
Coordinate and produce media production (videos, audio clips, photographs) for use in the exhibit and related programming.
Program & Relationship Development
Develop partnerships with local child advisors, faith communities, faith leaders, and organizations that promote interfaith engagement.
Develop a resource list that includes locally and nationally accessible resources, annotated with objectives for engagement by CMH thought Faithful Friends.
Develop of programs designed to springboard from the exhibit's content to enable families to learn more about faith traditions or explorations for which they have interest.
Evaluation
Assist in the development and implement formative and summative evaluation methods.
Design and implement iterative improvements and remediation responses.
Write reports as needed.
Financial Management
Assist with the management of expenditures, including expense planning, approvals, and reporting.
Reporting
Collaborate on report submissions as needed.

Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Qualifications:

High creativity encompassing both big picture and focused aspects of projects.
Project management skills, incl. budgets, timelines, and reports
Proficient with Office 36
Strong organizational skills including developing tracking systems; taking and managing inventory; logistics coordination; creating longterm schedules; etc.
Strong communication skills

Education: