Museum Experience and Education Intern

REPORTS TO: Manager of Education and Outreach
LOCATION: Remote
SEMESTER: Spring and/or Summer 2024

BACKGROUND
The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution. Located on Philadelphia’s historic Independence Mall, steps from where the Constitution was drafted and signed, it serves as America’s leading platform for constitutional education and debate, fulfilling its congressional charter “to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.”

POSITION SUMMARY
The Museum Experience and Education Intern will work with Museum Experience and Education department to create innovative and engaging educational materials to support the Center programs and initiatives.  This includes creating materials such as worksheets, study guides, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, and other similar materials to better support the educational experience of students, teachers, and parents as they use online resources like the Constitution 101 course, virtual museum experiences, or attend online classes. 

The intern will also support the onsite educational experience by helping to create dynamic museum programs connected to museum exhibits or civic holiday observances. This process will involve researching a variety of historic topics, developing creative ways to present these topics to a wide audience in a museum setting, writing program scripts, creating PowerPoint presentations or other audio/visual elements to accompany the programs, and acquiring any props, costumes, or supplies that may be needed for the programs.

The intern will assist project leads during the planning, execution, and evaluation of museum experience and education department programs, events and initiatives, including teacher community events, Scholar Exchanges (online classes), Civic Holidays, and other projects as needed, helping to ensure that projects are well organized and stay on task.
 

This is a virtual internship with the intern expected to be available during regular business hours, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Create materials such as worksheets, study guides, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, and other similar materials to correlate with the Center's online resources.
• Assist with the production of the educational videos, including coordinating the review of all videos for content edits.
•  Create innovative educational programs that will be presented by the Center's education staff.
• Provide research assistance for programs that will be created in conjunction with the Center's exhibits and events.
• Support in the planning and executing of education department programs, events, and initiatives.  
• Use data to assess museum experience and education programs. 
• Attend department meetings, prepare agendas, take and circulate notes, and track action items.
• Assist with copyediting and review of internal documents
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Please note that the Center may change specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization

QUALIFICATIONS
• Full-time student currently enrolled in an accredited college or university
• Strong interest in the U.S. Constitution and history of the United States; interest in Education or Museum Programs preferred
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong historical research skills
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint
• Reliable, detail-oriented
• Must be available during regular business hours, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.; ability to work weekends and holidays a plus.
• Previous experience working with public a plus

OTHER
• A lump-sum stipend, the amount of which is commensurate with education level, will be paid to all interns who can fulfill, at minimum, 6 weeks of service at an average of at least 15 hours per week.