FAO Schwarz Fellowship at the Museum of Science
The Museum’s mission is to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone. Through delightful exhibits, programs, curricula, and professional development offerings for educators, staff make science and scientific thinking accessible, engaging, relevant, and endlessly fun for people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities. Our vision is a world in which science belongs to each of us for the good of all of us.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP IN BOSTON
The FAO Schwarz Fellowship is an intensive, transformative two-year experience in the world of social impact. Fellows work at leading nonprofit organizations in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. Each organization is deeply valued in their communities and has a strong record of delivering high-quality services that address critical issues of social inequity and producing consistent results. The Fellowship is a two-year commitment that pays $40,000 in year one (includes $2,000 start of Fellowship bonus) and $45,000 in year two (includes $3,000 end of Fellowship bonus). Benefits include professional development, health insurance and annual subway passes.
DIRECT SERVICE
The FAO Schwarz Fellow will serve as a valuable member of the education team, playing a key role in enhancing the Museum’s teen programs and focusing on the Museum's school programs and school partnerships, helping to engage both with our community partners as well as with our youth/teens.
The Fellow will:
- Work with school, family, and public audiences of all ages through informal education opportunities as part of the In-Gallery learning team.
- During the school year, work with youth staff to develop relationships, mentor, and support teens as part of our school partnership programs to impart career, STEM, and communication skills within an informal education setting.
- During the summer, work with youth and HR staff to develop relationships and support teens in around career paths, job readiness, and development of leadership and interpersonal skills within the Summer Youth Internship (SYI) program.
PROJECT WORK
The FAO Schwarz Fellow will create new programming to bring teens together at the Museum to learn about pathways to STEM careers, connect with practicing STEM professionals, engage with hands-on STEM learning, and align with the Museum’s DEI work to collaborate with local high school students.
The Fellow will:
- Collaborate with the Youth Programs team to identify relevant and engaging STEM career themes to highlight, including researching and identifying guest speakers, selecting accompanying STEM activities for hands-on exploration at the Museum, and creating pre and post materials for teacher and student use.
- Secure and communicate internal space needs, collaborate with internal stakeholders to prepare event space and needs, organize and staff check-in tables as needed, emcee events as needed, carry out clean-up plan.
Write and share impact report, finalize internal and external payments as needed, assess participant survey feedback, schedule debrief meeting with community partners
TYPICAL WORK SCHEDULE
Tuesday - Saturday
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants must be college seniors at accredited four-year colleges or universities at the time of application and be eligible to work in the United States for the duration of the two-year Fellowship.
For more about what we are seeking, please see our application page. Please visit this website for more information about the Museum of Science.
To apply, visit our website where you’ll see detailed instructions. You will be asked to answer several short questions and to upload your resume and a cover letter by February 10, 2022 11:59 EST.
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In your letter, please describe your interest in working at the Museum of Science and your responses to the following questions:
Question 1: What interests you about the mission of this organization?
Question 2: What background and experiences would you bring to the direct service and special project discussed in the Fellowship description?
Question 3: Why are you interested in being an FAO Schwarz Fellow?
We will review each application carefully and select our Fellow by the end of April. Thanks for your interest.
COVID POLICY
Staff, interns, and volunteers will be required to show proof that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. The Museum will consider an exemption from the vaccine requirement if they are unable to get vaccinated due to a qualifying medical disability or a sincerely held religious objection. The Museum is not required to provide an accommodation or exemption from the vaccine requirement if doing so would pose a direct threat to others in the workplace or would create an undue hardship for the Museum.
NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
It is the policy of the Museum of Science that all employees should be able to enjoy a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. This requires that each employee treat with courtesy and respect every other employee and individual with whom the employee has contact in the course of the employee’s employment. The Museum strictly forbids discrimination or harassment of any kind, including discrimination based race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, citizenship status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, disability, military status, status as a disabled, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, or other covered veteran or any other protected status under applicable law. This policy extends to each and every level of our operation. Accordingly, any form of harassment, whether by a fellow employee, manager, supervisor, or by a third party doing business with the Museum, will not be tolerated.
If an employee believes that they have been the subject of discrimination or harassment or that they have witnessed it in the workplace, the employee should immediately bring concerns to the attention of Human Resources, their supervisor, or any member of management with whom the employee is comfortable.