KID Museum seeks Special Assistant - $58,000 to $64,000/year
Start Date: March 31, 2025
Application Deadline: March 21, 2025
KID Museum is the nation’s leading educational makerspace for youth. Our mission is to revolutionize how kids learn through the maker experience. Through hands-on programming and deep learning experiences, we empower youth with the creative problem-solving and STEM skills to invent the future. With a focus on engaging populations traditionally underrepresented in STEM, our programs aim to build economic opportunity and diversify the future talent pipeline.
Our vision is to become the standard of excellence for inclusive, impactful maker learning nationally, and a model for how to expand access to maker learning at scale. Our headquarters in the Washington, DC region serves as our innovation hub. In partnership with local school systems, government and philanthropic leaders, we design and deliver K-12 programs that produce results at scale in a large and diverse metropolitan region. We leverage the learnings from this learning lab to create resources, training, and technical support to expand high-impact maker learning nationally. For more information, please visit www.kid-museum.org.
Position Overview
KID Museum is seeking a Special Assistant who will support the Executive Director (ED), Managing Director, and other senior leaders to achieve KID’s strategic and growth goals. The Special Assistant will report directly to the Managing Director of Strategy and Planning and will lead a range of projects focused on fundraising, partnership engagement, and other growth strategy goals.
The ideal candidate is collaborative, curious, efficient, detail-oriented and thrives in a fast-paced role. An individual in this role will be exposed to a wide range of responsibilities related to nonprofit management, executive leadership, fundraising, and strategy. The Special Assistant will be able to prioritize effectively, act quickly, work independently, and maintain confidentiality. The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience. Experience or interest in education innovation and maker/STEM fields is a plus. Successful candidates are likely early-career professionals interested in learning the inner workings of a growing nonprofit organization and being mentored by senior leaders to develop skills in nonprofit management, written communications, nonprofit fundraising, and related areas.