Employment
These positions are currently open.
Summer AmeriCorps Positions
Summer Early Childhood Educator
May 1 – Aug 23, 2024
Responsibilities:
- Assist staff in facilitating nature-based education camp for children ages 4 to 8:
- Plan and provide daily STEAM activities for extended day camp program
- Assist with butterfly house maintenance, including watering plants and caring for the butterflies
- Assist in botany research and data collection/management for our flower table exhibit and collections department
- Help keep classroom attractive and organized to maximize student learning opportunities
- Keep communication current with museum staff
- Treat children, parents, other teachers and volunteers with respect and dignity
- Participate in required LEAP/SerVermont events as well as have access to participate in optional service projects and trainings.
- Attend required LEAP orientation training either via Zoom or in person prior to beginning service
Summer Science Educator
May 1 – Aug 23, 2024
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate and design curriculum for our Drones and Robots camps for children ages 8-14
- Assist in the management of our Franklin’s Guides teen docent program for ages 12-16
- Curriculum development for Kingdom East Afterschool Camp programming
- Facilitate planetarium programs for the public
- Exhibit enthusiasm for our mission of “supporting and building on the child’s innate interest in exploring the natural world” through playing outdoors and engaging children in science and nature based activities
- Keep communication current with museum staff
- Treat children, parents, other teachers and volunteers with respect and dignity
- Participate in required LEAP/SerVermont events as well as have access to participate in optional service projects and trainings.
- Attend required LEAP orientation training either via Zoom or in person prior to beginning service
Internship Opportunities
Internships offer a way for self-motivated individuals to be involved with the work of the Museum. Interns work with Museum staff on specific projects or over time to support Museum functions. The Museum cannot pay interns.
Fairbanks Museum interns work with collections, exhibits, facilities, visitor services, marketing and communications. For those interested in a more formal internship to fulfill an educational requirement, museum staff can work with you and your instructors to meet your needs.
Would an itnernship be a good step for your career? You can start the conversation by letting us know your interests and experiences in a cover letter. Please include any relevant work history or academic focus.
About the Fairbanks Museum
The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium is located in Vermont’s scenic Northeast Kingdom. The Museum was built in 1890-91 by Franklin Fairbanks, a member of St. Johnsbury’s wealthy and illustrious 19th century Fairbanks family. Franklin Fairbanks was an amateur naturalist, world traveler, and community philanthropist. With the opening of the “Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science” in 1891, Franklin Fairbanks made his wide-ranging “cabinet of curiosities” available to the community of St. Johnsbury, and to the wider region. The collections remain northern New England’s most extensive natural history display, and the National Register-listed building is a splendid example of the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style.
The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium continues to faithfully uphold and expand upon Fairbank’s vision of a public museum with a strong educational component. The modern day mission of the Museum is to “inspire wonder, curiosity and responsibility for the natural world.” The mission is accomplished through general visitation (+/- 30,000 year), school student visits (+/- 11,000 year), a public planetarium, a state-accredited preschool and a well-respected weather center which broadcasts through Vermont Public (Eye on the Sky).
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will not discriminate in its employment practices on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, or disability. This policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including, but not restricted to, hiring, training, placement, staff development, supervision, promotion, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, business travel, termination, reduction of force, and retirement.