The Director of In-Person School Programs, Prek-12 oversees a range of dynamic educational programs occurring onsite and in classrooms around the city. In addition to overseeing curriculum development, instructor training, and program evaluation, this individual is responsible for improving internal workflows and for developing a strategy to significantly expand the Barnes’s educational service in Philadelphia. Special emphasis will be placed on pro-actively building new partnerships with underserved public schools, based on an analysis of the distribution of the city’s cultural resources across the School District of Philadelphia. The Director of In-Person School Programs works cross-departmentally, collaborating especially with the Director of Community Engagement and Family Programs and the Director of Marketing. This position reports to the Deputy Director for Research, Interpretation and Education.

Education/Training/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, museum studies or art history with 7 years of work experience in art, museum or classroom art/art history education OR Master’s degree in one of these fields with 5 years’ work experience
• Collaborative and visionary leader passionate about creating, delivering, scaling and evaluating in-person for preK-12 audiences
• Commitment to inclusive, equitable, and empowering collaborative professional relationships and student-centered instruction
• Demonstrated success developing and sustaining relationships with interdepartmental and external stakeholders
• Supervisory experience inside or outside a classroom setting
• Outstanding organizational, supervisory, and written/verbal communication skills

Job Specific Competencies:

• Directs the operation of all onsite (and 3-touchpoint) programs.
• Directs curriculum development and new content development.
• Directs and improves the departmental workflow for booking tours and tracking data.
• Develops and implements a strategy to market school programs and effectively within the School District of Philadelphia, with special emphasis on building partnerships with underserved schools.
• Working with CEF, develops a strategy for reaching the broader communities and families of our partner schools.
• Trains and coaches all instructors on in-gallery teaching and in-school lessons. Observes in-school lessons twice a year for every educator.
• Establishes learning goals and oversees program evaluation.
• Networks nationally
• Directs and leads the effort to convene a working group of Philadelphia museums/ cultural orgs to redistribute resources.
• Performs other tasks as requested.

Organization-Wide Competencies:

• Effective Resource Use: Develops strategies and makes decisions that use time and resources wisely, manages resources effectively.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates desire to help or serve others; identifies, anticipates and addresses internal and external needs; does what is necessary to ensure satisfaction.
• Problem-solving: Identifies problems and/or challenges. Weighs pros and cons of all possible solutions. Involves other in developing creative solutions to problems. Makes innovative use of computers and other information technology to contribute to problem solving. Produces practical solutions after carefully considering risks and alternatives. Willingly incorporates new and different information as it becomes available.
• Relationship building: Effectively builds and maintains harmonious, professional, respectful and productive relationships within The Barnes Foundation, professional field and community. Effectively works in a team setting. Communicates honestly and directly; shows diplomacy and tact. Uses appropriate channels of communication.
• Professional Presentation: Complies with organization policy and procedure. Demonstrates self-awareness and understanding of others; listens well; perceives emotions, concerns and interests accurately, and uses these skills to advance The Barnes Foundation mission; creates a healthy work environment; shows composure’ respects people of different cultures, ages and genders.
• Active Learning: Demonstrates curiosity and initiative to seek information; seeks to understand The Barnes Foundation business and outside factors that impact it; learns from best practices and generates fresh approaches; learns from experience and others; acquires skills; seeks feedback and advice resulting in improvement.
• Initiative: Takes calculated risks and does things that are new, different, or out of the box when necessary to reach goals, speaks up, asserts oneself, makes tough decisions in a timely manner; takes responsibility for outcomes.
• Ethics: Demonstrates ethical business practices; demonstrates and conducts oneself in a manner consistent with the organization’s mission statement and core values.
• Promotes the continuous growth of the Barnes Foundation.
• Interacts and communicates with fellow employees in a manner that promotes a harmonious and cooperative working environment in accordance with our Core Values.