Description:

Responsibilities include: The Intern will work with the Curator & Educator to conduct 4 weeks of summer camps for local teens & tweens. Two weeks are devoted to archaeology with excavations at the Jeffersonian Publishing Plant site. Two weeks are focused on History and the Environment. The Intern will be co-teaching with the Educator, and will assist with curriculum development.

Qualifications:

Requirements, Abilities & Skills:
• an enrolled university student, recent graduate, or graduate student in anthropology, history, museum education, public history, or education
• Responsible, reliable, and dedicated to job performance.
• Ability to learn information quickly.
• Experience working with children.
• Ability to teach activities to a group.
• A desire to work with the public.
• A desire to work outdoors.
• Commitment to being a team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creative problem solving and ability to use available resources.
• Able to pass a drug test and background check.
• First Aid and CPR skills are a plus, but not mandatory.

Paid Internship Info:

$1100/month + furnished house

Hours:

40 hours per week

Length/Availability:

May 28 - August 3, 2013

Start Date:

12/18/2012

End Date:

03/01/13, 03/01/13

Deadline:

28 February 2013

Additional Info:

$1100 per month. Housing is provided in a furnished cottage at Hickory Hill. All utilities, Internet, and cable TV are paid. Laundry facilities on-site.

Tags:

museum    history    archaeology    ecology 

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