Interpretation Specialist

5 months ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Communities, Culture, Tourism & Heritage

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Permanent

**Union Status**:NSGEU - NSPG

**Closing Date**:08-Mar-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is part of the Nova Scotia Museum, in the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage. This department supports communities across the province to be welcoming, inclusive, and accessible, providing a great quality of life for Nova Scotians. We value the collective diversity of our heritage and our people and believe in the transformative nature of culture to help create healthy, active, growing communities.

The Nova Scotia Museum (NSM) consists of 28 museum sites across the province. It is responsible for the provincial collection of over one million artifacts and specimens housed at museum sites and storage facilities across the province. The NSM values equity, diversity, and inclusion and considers these drivers for necessary institutional change. The museum acknowledges that history’s exclusionary practices must be addressed, that we are part of a shared heritage, and we will continue to work with community partners to work for change to interpret a more inclusive history.

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, an NSM site, engages the region’s maritime experience in all its breadth and diversity, including our enduring and complex relationships with water and the sea.

**About Our Opportunity**:
The Interpretation Specialist coordinates with internal and external stakeholders, and team members, demonstrating excellent time management, communication, budgeting, procurement, leadership, and team building skills. They are on top of best practices and emerging trends in museum exhibition development and audience engagement. They continually assess the MMA’s inclusion of new, diverse, and alternative perspectives and techniques in interpretation, and of sustainable processes. The IS works closely with the curatorial and senior leadership of the MMA, participating in strategic and operational planning, and they perform other duties, as required. The IS’s work demonstrates a commitment to museum visitors and to their overall experience.

This position reports to the Manager of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

**Primary Accountabilities**:
Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

- Develop project-specific interpretation plans and specifications
- Coordinate the work of project teams for assigned projects
- Oversee the development and production of assigned interpretive programs and products
- Ensure the effectiveness of interpretive programs and products
- Assist with recruitment and delivery of personal programs, special events and other activities
- Assist with outreach and promotional activities, including media inquiries
- Assist with monitoring and maintaining exhibits, interpretive equipment and facilities
- Assist the senior MMA team in preparing strategic and operational plans

**Qualifications and Experience**:
**The Interpretation Specialist should have knowledge/experience**:

- Advancing principles of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
- Historical research and project writing
- Interpretative programming techniques
- Practical knowledge of the maritime and marine sectors
- Theories and practices of Interpretation development
- Current trends in museum interpretation and programming
- Project management
- Writing for interpretation projects
- Artifact handling and conservation

**Assets Include**:

- Specific certification in interpretation and/or museum studies are considered assets.
- Sketch-up, CAD, 3D modelling, etc.
- Basic carpentry
- Digital design

**Equivalency**:
**Benefits**:
Based on the employment status and Union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click here to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.

**Additional Information**:
Some weekend and afterhours may be required.

**What We Offer**:

- Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
- Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
- Countless career paths

**Pay Grade**: PR 13

**Salary Range**: $2,543.38 - $3,091.70 Bi-Weekly

**Employment Equity Statement**:

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