The Garden of the Gulf Museum
- Montague
- $13.00 per hour
- Posted: July 14, 2021
- 40 hours per week
- Starts: As soon as possible
- Seasonal
- Expires: July 24, 2021
- 1 Vacancy
- 194169
Job Description:
Role: The Museum Tour Guide provides support to the Development Coordinator in carrying out tasks related to hosting visitors; providing guided tours and information; and general housekeeping for the museum. Reporting Structure: The Museum Guide reports to the Development Coordinator and, through the Development Coordinator, to the Operations Manager. General Summary of Duties:
- Greeting visitors at the front door and collecting admission fees
- Conducting sales of items from the gift shop
- Offering guided tours to individuals and groups while ensuring that the reception desk is covered
- Monitor visitors to ensure collection is safeguarded
- Offer children and teens the Scavenger Hunt experience
- Assist with promotion of museum activities and development/maintenance of exhibits under direction of Development Coordinator
- Contribute ideas for programming; research topics to enhance exhibits
- Respond to questions and offer information to visitors about the collection, the town and surrounding Three Rivers area
- General housekeeping tasks
- Other duties as assigned from time to time by the Development Coordinator
Anticipated start date is as soon as possible until the first week of September or dependent on students return to school schedule.
The hours of operation are Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm for a total of 40 hours per week.
Preference for bilingual applicants to offer guided tours in both official languages
Due to funding requirements, applicant must meet the following requirements:
• a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada (non-Canadians holding temporary work visas or awaiting permanent status are not eligible)
• legally entitled to work in Canada;
• between 16 and 30 years of age at the start of employment;
• willing to commit to the full duration of the work assignment;10 weeks
• not have another full-time job (over 30 hours a week) during the Young Canada Works (YCW) work assignment; and
• currently enrolled full time in high school, community college or university
• intend to return to full-time studies in the semester following the YCW work assignment.
To apply: Please send a resume to ggmuseum@eastlink.ca