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Living History Guide - Interpreter

Volet de programme :
Jeunesse Canada au travail dans les établissements du patrimoine
Titre de l'emploi :
Living History Guide - Interpreter
Nom de l’organisme :
Fort la Reine Museum
Lieu de l’emploi :
Portage la Prairie, RM., Manitoba
Durée de l'emploi :
2017-05-19 à 2017-08-17 (12 semaines)
Salaire horaire :
13,50 $
Living History Guide– Fort la Reine Museum

Any job with the word “guide” sounds like you might spend your time on an excursion into a wild and wonderful place, well you will!! We are hiring for a Living History Guide to wrangle the 4000+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience of our exhibitions, programs, and collections. In this role, you will be the engaging, thoughtful, creative, and dynamic history loving person who thinks about how much fun history can be with the right guide to make it come alive!

This job involves front line visitor experience, administrative management, the guiding of students, and group tours, as well as collaboration with a diverse group of volunteers and staff. It would be great if you are bilingual (Optional). It would also be amazing if you like wearing costume, or period clothing!

Qualifications:
-Candidates must have a real thirst for, and love of history
-Strong oral and written communications skills
-Post secondary experience in history, the humanities, education, drama, art history, and natural history.
-Knowledge or demonstrated interest in culture, art, Canadian Heritage.
-Excellent skills in English are required. French would be an asset.

Duties:
Description of Tasks:
-Deliver Guided tours of the Fort la Reine Museum’s exhibitions and heritage homes.
-Guide visitors through three unique travelling exhibitions hosted for Canada’s 150th!
-Deliver pre-booked guided tours for tour groups, school groups, VIP’s Bus/Travel tour groups.
-Greet Museum visitors, reserve tours, process admissions, provide travel information.
-Assist with the implementation of the Museum’s events, traveling exhibits.
-Conduct independent research, reading on areas of history, and the Museum collections.
-Assist with the Museum’s collections, archiving and cataloguing of collections.
-Assist with general conservation and care of artifacts and the Museum environment.
Training and Scheduling:
The Fort la Reine Museum will provide training and orientation to the Museum, its collections , staff, and on the job mentoring concerning the care and conservation of collections and all logistics. Education, training, and support will be ongoing throughout the season. The work week will include weekends and holidays.

Special Requirements:
All candidates must be full time current university, community college or highschool students who will return to school in the fall of 2017. All successful candidates must be between the ages of 16 and 30 years of age. Own transportation is a must as the museum is located 4km East of Portage la Prairie city centre. All candidates must apply through the Young Canada Works Website.

We see this job as a starting point for someone who is cheerfully obsessed with the future of museum education. Like most museums, we’re facing some big questions when it comes to the future of school programs:

• You make the museum programs come alive. Not all learning happens in school. How should we think about the balance between formal programs for school groups and youth-centered programs that happen after or outside of school?
• You are excited about being part of igniting unexpected connections with our visitors and history.We are an interdisciplinary institution that focuses on igniting “unexpected connections.” How can we create school tours that reflect the diversity and interconnectedness of creativity and culture without completely confusing teachers?
• You are excited by the prospect of “shared experiences” and social bridging amongst diverse groups. Most school tours are for intact groups—a single class or grade.
• You like hands on learning, and enjoy to be a facilitator of participatory experiences in which visitors have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to collaborative activities or projects.
•We are transforming our history gallery to become alive, a place that serves as a hub for dynamic civic engagement, identity building, reflection, and ideas. Want to be part of that change?!

We thank in advance all applicants and will contact those that are selected for an interview.

Please apply to:
Tracey Turner MA C.S.
Executive Director, Fort la Reine Museum
2652 Saskatchewan Ave. East.
Portage la Prairie RM. Mb.
R1N 3Z9
204.792.9763
info@fortlareinemuseum.com
www.fortlareinemuseum.com

Orientation and training:
The Fort la Reine Museum will provide training and orientation to the Museum, its collections, staff and on the job care and conservation and logistics. Education, training, and support will be ongoing throughout the season. The work week will include some weekends and holidays. New staff will be trained by experienced past staff, as well as the Museum Curator/Manager for the first week, and ongoing throughout the season as needed, or desired. Manitoba workplace safety and rules are explained and followed. With software manuals and proper policy manuals concerning general operations, collections care, as well as in person training by the curator, interpreters will be groomed in museum collections care and management.
Supervision:
The Executive Director interacts with staff on a daily basis, in an "Open Office" environment and is accessible, monitors performance, and assists in training and problem solving according to best museum practices. Senior staff members are staffed in the absence of the curator.
Characteristics of City/Region:
Portage la Prairie is an agricultural community of about 14,000 which has a regional trading area population of about 55,000 people. The city is located 75 km west of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway.
Portage Tourism: www.city-plap.com/tourism/

Please apply by email: info@fortlareinemuseum.com


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