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In this role, you will deliver interactive programs to school groups and various community groups in a museum setting using artifacts, role-play, and storytelling. You will also assist with research, program development.

Position Title: School Program Facilitator
Days/Hours of Work: Part-time/contract (January 2019 – June 2019)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate high quality, engaging programs for students from kindergarten to grade 7.
• Responsible for classroom organization, program setup, and clean-up.
• Work alongside other departments to ensure a successful experience for all visitors to Fort Calgary.
• Maintain knowledge of local, provincial, and national history.
• Maintain knowledge of classroom management with the ability to facilitate groups of multiple learners, ages, and abilities.

Skills & Experience:

• Teaching experience, particularly in leading large groups of children in an interpretive environment.
• Knowledge and interest in local and Canadian history.
• Bilingualism with the ability to teach and create a program in French is a strong asset.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team environment, and the ability to problem-solve and adapt in a changing work environment.
• Exceptional communication skills in order to communicate effectively with staff, students, teachers, and parents.

Education: Possess or be working towards a bachelor’s degree in education/history/museum studies/communications/ fine arts or other related fields or equivalent experience.

Fort Calgary Core Competencies:

• Vision/Thinking Corporately: Inspires a vision of success, communicating the vision and aligning strategic, operational and personal work plan and goals to achieve the vision.
• Communication: Listens to others and communicates in a compelling and articulate manner, ensuring the message is clear, understood and consistent with Fort Calgary’s objectives.
• Teamwork: Through information sharing, works within and across organizational units to achieve common goals and positive results
• Ethics: Creates an environment that nurtures the principles and values of Fort Calgary.
• Customer Service: Demonstrated excellence (quality, timeliness, completeness, knowledge/competence, courtesy, fairness, outcomes, etc.) to internal and/or external customers by focusing efforts of discovering and meeting their needs.
• Leadership: Recognizes and demonstrates competencies in creating visions, goals, thinking corporately, teamwork and ethics.
• Technical and Professional: Demonstrates an appropriate mastery of current business and technical skills related to the position.

Benefits: Fort Calgary offers superior extended health and dental benefits (minimum number of hours apply), competitive salary, free parking and an outstanding work environment.

To apply please submit a detailed resume and cover letter to Human Resources Administrator, by email at hr@fortcalgary.com.

Applications will be accepted until January 27, 2019.

Thank you for your interest, however only successful candidates will be contacted for interviews.

No phone calls please.

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