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Job TitleCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FELLOW
- Full-Time
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Los Angeles, CA
Ford Foundation Education Community Engagement Fellow (Regular, Full-Time) [3-Year Term]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) seeks a talented and enthusiastic Ford Foundation Education Community Engagement Fellow to develop public programs and facilitate engagement activities, including public listening sessions, community events, meetings, wellness activities, workshops, and discussions in support of the diverse communities LACMA serves throughout Los Angeles County. The Ford Foundation Education Community Engagement Fellow should be a demonstrated leader that is responsible for developing and implementing new arts initiatives. The goal of the fellowship is to create connections throughout the community, thus increasing future levels of participation in our programs, both inside and outside the walls of the Museum building. The Ford Foundation Education Community Engagement Fellow will be a strategic and collaborative leader who will serve as a professional and passionate advocate for this program and others in the region.
Responsibilities
-Works with the Vice President, Education & Public Programs, staff, contractors, volunteers, donors, and artists to develop contacts and strengthen relationships between LACMA and partners in the community.
-Leverages LACMA’s strengths in order to build strong, long-term, and loyal relationships with audience members and the community.
-Develops, oversees, builds partnerships, and implements educational community engagement programs with partners who wish to be involved with LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, community programming celebrating the recently “reopened” Watts Towers, and other programming centered in and for diverse communities.
-Maintains and invigorates existing partnerships to reach new audiences both directly through programming efforts, and indirectly through the incorporation of new ideas.
-If needed, presents projects to various City, County, and non-profit leaders in the course of soliciting necessary permits, approvals, and press for the program.
-Partners with the Vice President, Education & Public Programs to align programming across departments.
-All other duties and projects, as assigned.
Education & Experience
-Bachelor’s degree in art, museum studies, or a related field is preferred.
-A minimum of 3+ years of professional museum or arts engagement experience required.
-Excellent interpretive, writing, presentation/public speaking, and communication skills.
-Strong organizational, planning, and teaching skills.
-Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, visitors, volunteers, donors, professional colleagues, and other members of the community.
-Demonstrated ability to design and implement public programs that engage and educate diverse audiences.
-Fluency in best professional practices and highly values public access to the arts.
-Ability to talk and work with a range of community members, such as art workers, university administrators, and youth-serving professionals, and the capacity to think critically and creatively about such wide-ranging topics as public monuments, arts education, and land acknowledgment.
-Ability to think innovatively about outreach and comfortable initiating conversations and developing highly strategic partner coalitions.
To apply, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3jbxxcn