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Weeksville Heritage Center-Volunteer Opportunities
Looking for ways to give back, become a valued partner with the Weeksville team?
Weeksville Heritage Center is looking to establish volunteer corps who are interested in assisting our teams with events, rentals, and programmatic needs. This would include the setup and breakdown of programs and events, wayfinding, light housekeeping, grounds maintenance & greeting visitors and guests in conjunction with Weeksville staff.
For further details please send an email of interest to Operations Director, Eimear at eimear@weeksvillesociety.org.
Director of Education
The Director of Education is a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for developing and implementing dynamic, inclusive, and impactful educational programs that reflect the contemporary and historical legacy of Weeksville. This individual will lead the institution’s overall education strategy, oversee engagement with schools and community organizations, and ensure that education programs and initiatives align with the organization’s mission. This position will actively create the structure, content and direction of education focused work at Weeksville. The Director of Education will collaborate with public programs, operations, and development teams to integrate education across the institution.
Collections Manager
The Collections Manager is responsible for the physical and intellectual aspects of the Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic homes, collection of artifacts, documents, photographs, textiles, and other objects. The Collections Manager ensures that the historic homes and objects are properly cared for, manages storage, conservation and record-keeping associated with objects. The incumbent will develop policies and standards for acquiring and disposing of objects, develop a master plan for maintenance, preservation, and conservation of the historic Hunterfly Houses.
Building Custodial Assistant
The Building Custodial Assistant will assist and ensure that through the provision of quality custodial and maintenance services: staff, administrators, curators, and students have an environment that is safe, healthy, and responsive to educational programming. The Building Custodial Assistant will assist with the day-to-day running of the facilities and grounds. These services include but are not limited to: cleaning and inspections. This is a forward facing public role.
Visitor Services Representative
The Visitor Services Representative is the first point of contact between Weeksville and most of its public visitors and is essential to building awareness, continued visitors, and overall relations with the wider community. The Visitor Services Representative provides exceptional customer service to visitors and general information to the public about Weeksville Heritage Center through walk-ins and tours as well as calls and online inquiries.
Part Time Tour Educator
The Tour Educator conducts historic house tours for school groups and other visitors. In addition, the Tour Educator provides valuable administrative support related to program development, implementation and evaluation. This position represents WHC to a broad range of audiences and stakeholders through tours and wider community engagement.