Position Opening:
Museum Assistant for Marketing and Graphic Design beginning fall 2024

The primary responsibilities of this undergraduate student position are:

1. to assist senior staff in marketing tasks, including creating visual material and
2. to design promotional material, exhibit graphics, and interpretive material.

Duties of this position include:

• creating digital and print flyers, brochures, postcards, stickers, invitations, etc in support of event promotion and general branding efforts,
• updating campus and community calendars with information about museum events,
• drafting and posting social media content, in consultation with other staff,
• in exhibit work, collaborating with other members of exhibit teams, including curators from campus and community to develop color palettes and typography and to design text and image panels of various sizes for short- and long-term exhibits (wall-mounted, rail-mounted, booklets, artifact labels, etc.), and
• designing coordinating materials for publicity, interpretation, programming, etc. of both short- and long-term exhibits.

Depending on the student’s availability and museum needs, this position may have additional opportunities to work on:

• video projects in support of the interpretation of artifacts and/or museum marketing activities. (Video creation and editing skills are not required for this position.) and
• other projects related to the museum’s core functions.

All work will be reviewed and revised to meet established formats, design criteria, and, as needed, standards of quality for writing and content. The successful assistant will be able to organize their tasks to meet deadlines throughout the process of developing and producing material.

The museum’s mission, vision, core values, and strategic plan are available for review.

This position is open only to current undergraduate students at UIUC. Federal Work-Study students are encouraged to apply.

Preferred Qualifications:

• interest in museums or other arts/history/culture/education organizations
• experience in arts, humanities, education, or public service projects or organizations (examples include anthropology language classes, membership in a performing arts group, volunteering as a language tutor)
• experience with publications projects, text editing, and/or communications tasks (e.g. social media, customer service, RSO coordination/leadership)

Schedule

Some work can be performed remotely, though it also requires some regular weekly hours in the museum between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm Monday through Friday, at a time that suits both employee and supervisor.

The position is 10–15 hours/week starting at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year (and possibly beyond, depending on performance and student schedule). Pay is minimum wage ($14/hour).