Volunteer opportunities at the Tenement Museum include leading tours of our historic tenement, answering phones in the office or greeting visitors during our evening lecture series Tenement Talks. If you would like to learn more about volunteering at the Tenement Museum, please contact jwhittet@tenement.org.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to making all personnel decisions without regard to age, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or any other category protected by law.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is seeking two Education Department interns during summer of 2010. Internships will start in June and last through August, depending on workload and the intern’s schedule. Ideal candidates are self-starters who have an outgoing personality and work well collaboratively; great organizational abilities; experience within the education field, and an interest in the museum profession. The following positions are available:
Project: Adapting The Moores: An Irish Family...
Project: Adapting The Moores: An Irish Family in America for young audiences
To revise the content of our newest tour for elementary-aged audiences. The intern will work with the history of the Moore family, Irish-Catholic immigrants striving to keep their family healthy in 1869. The intern will review current tour content as well as New York State and New York City learning standards. S/he will work with education professionals, historians, and the museum’s teacher advisory committee to insure that content is age appropriate and meets the overall goals and objectives of the Museum. In addition, s/he may deliver programs to school groups, adults and/or the public.
Please contact Sarah Pharaon, Director of Education, at spharaon@tenement.org with a cover letter and resume. Please write Education Intern in the subject line and specify which project/s you are applying for. No phone calls please.
Project: Developing lesson plans...
Project: Developing lesson plans to accompany online interactives
To assist in the creation of K-12 lesson plans to assist educators in implementing the Museum’s online interactives into their curriculum. The intern will work with the Museum’s Virtual Tour, Agents for Change, We Are Multicolored, and Folksongs For the Five Points. The intern will review current online content as well as New York City and New York State learning standards. In addition, s/he may deliver programs to school groups, adults and/or the public.
Please contact Sarah Pharaon, Director of Education, at spharaon@tenement.org with a cover letter and resume. Please write Education Intern in the subject line and specify which project/s you are applying for. No phone calls please.
Public Affairs Intern
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is seeking an intern for its Public Affairs Department during the fall semester 2009. Learn what it’s like to manage communications and marketing outreach at New York’s most visited historic site.
We’re looking for a bright, outgoing individual to assist with a variety of communications-related and organizational tasks. This internship will start mid-September and last until mid-December, 8-10 hours per week, depending on workload and the intern’s schedule.
Projects include:
- Manage our Google AdWords campaign, including assessment of current campaigns and launching new initiatives
- Help maintain the Museum’s online shop
- Update the Museum’s Facebook and Flickr accounts
- Use mailing list software to email our Tenement Talks subscriber list
- Learn how to use Media Source database to compile press lists
- Organize press clippings & files in the archives
- Research and write content for our blog and newsletter
- Help write program press releases
- Assist with marketing outreach for new initiatives
- Assist with mailings and press kits
- Join photo and film shoots inside the museum
Our ideal candidate has excellent, punchy writing skills; an upbeat and outgoing personality; great organizational and analytical abilities; an interest in marketing/public relations or in a career at a museum or non-profit arts organization; and a flexible schedule.
While this internship opportunity is unpaid, volunteers receive great benefits, including free admission to any of the museum’s tours, a discount in the museum shop, and the chance to attend departmental and all-staff meetings.
Please contact PR Manager Kate Stober at press-inquiry(at)tenement.org with cover letter, resume, and a brief writing sample (something you think shows your PR or journalistic writing skills). Write Public Affairs Intern in the subject line. No phone calls please. Note that this internship will not explore curatorial, archival, or education/programming aspects of museum work.
