Coordinator of Maritime Education

4 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

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

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Term

**Union Status**:NSGEU - NSPG

**Closing Date**:18-Jun-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (MMA) 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 Coordinator of Maritime Education at the MMA plays an important role in developing and facilitating core programs of the museum’s Boat School. They coordinate and lead the museum’s hands-on learning programs, especially beginner boat building activities with youth, community groups, marginalized communities, and school groups.

The Coordinator plans and facilitates hands-on learning experiences and workshops, such as boat building, working with hand tools, small projects based out of wood, marine trades, and on-the-water experiences. They work closely with the museum’s Boat Builder and the Coordinator of Maritime Waterfront Experiences in the effective planning, development, delivery, evaluation of interpretive programs to engage, meet and exceed the diverse needs of all museum visitors and stakeholders.

The Coordinator ensures excellent communication with community stakeholders and partners, and provides safe and engaging museum experiences. They train and supervise museum volunteers and staff who participate in program delivery related to Boat School programming and maritime education.

They assist in planning to support the development of the Canadian Maritime Heritage District, Boat School, on-the-water experiences, programs in support of the CSS Acadia Interpretive Masterplan, and other duties as required.

This position requires boat building and carpentry skills and knowledge, experience working with youth, small craft operator license, and an understanding of museum interpretation and program delivery. This position provides high quality visitor experiences and innovative access to the province's heritage resources.

Reports to the Museum Manager.

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

- Facilitates and leads core Boat School programming, including boat building, maritime skills, group training with hand tools and wood, and on the water skills.
- Supports festivals/event partnerships, maritime experiences, and programs in support of CSS Acadia Interpretive Master Plan and other activities.
- Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary staff teams, volunteers and assists with facilitating conversations with community groups and experts outside of the museum to incorporate multiple perspectives, and co-creation of programs.
- Support and/or give public lectures, workshops, in-service and field excursions to the public, other museums, and educational institutions.
- Ensure standards of excellence in visitor experience and museum interpretation are maintained.
- Maintains high levels of safety and workshop maintenance for staff, volunteers, and participants of Boat School.
- Ensures Nova Scotia’s heritage and culture is communicated effectively, accurately, inclusively and in an engaging manner to appeal to diverse audiences, ages, backgrounds and learning styles.
- Mentors and supports the development of youth through Boat School programming.
- Coordinates program delivery, including ordering of supplies, coordination of volunteers, stakeholder engagement.
- Trains and supervises Boat School volunteers and staff.
- Supports the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Nova Scotia Museum in achieving its goals and mandate as required.
- May perform other related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
To be successful in this role, you have a degree or certification in a related field, such as carpentry, boat building, museum studies (focus area

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