Awesomeness Initiator
- Program stream:
- Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations
- Job title:
- Awesomeness Initiator
- Organization name:
- Bata Shoe Museum
- Job location:
- Toronto, Ontario
- Length of assignment:
- 2018-05-14 to 2018-08-03 (12 weeks)
- Hourly wage:
- $16.00
Positions: 2
Institution: Bata Shoe Museum
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Duration: 16 weeks, 35 hours per week
Rate of pay: $16 per hour
Start and end dates: May 14, 2018 to August 31, 2018
Supervisor: Manager of Education and Volunteer Resources
Language(s) of work: English
Other relevant information: Some evening and weekend work will be required. Women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and Aboriginal peoples are encouraged to apply.
Contact andrea@batashoemuseum.ca
The Bata Shoe Museum (BSM) is undertaking a visitor experience project known as the Awesomeness Initiative, in which front-line team members create awesome experiences for our visitors. The Awesomeness Initiative is not just about providing great customer service; it’s about creating awesome experiences at multiple touch-points throughout the museum – from the first point of contact at the admissions desk to the extraordinary experiences that happen within the galleries.
Working under the direction of the Manager of Education and Volunteer Resources, knowledgeable and energetic Awesomeness Initiators will act as ambassadors to the museum, welcoming visitors and providing information, and enhance visitor experiences through the delivery of innovative educational and family programming. With our solid and successful foundation, the Awesomeness Initiators will use relationship-building and experience-crafting to help take the museum to the next level.
Duties will include: opening galleries, serving visitors at the front desk, delivering guided tours, facilitating interactive hands-on educational sessions, engaging children and their families in crafts and activities, developing a resource with information about the museum’s artefact storage, and providing visitor feedback and recommendations on ways in which visitor experiences may be improved.
Minimum qualifications for the position:
* The candidate should be enrolled in a university or college degree program in Museums Studies, Education, History or a related discipline
* Fluency in English (reading, writing, speaking)
* Knowledge of additional languages an asset (speaking)
* Excellent communications skills and comfortable with public speaking
* Ability to learn accurate, detailed information and present it effectively to diverse audiences
* Experience teaching and/or working with children
* General level computer skills including keyboarding, email, MS Word and Excel
* Previous experience with a computerize point of sale system an asset
* Cash handling an asset
* Previous gallery experience an asset
* Strong commitment to high quality work
* Flexible, innovative and creative
* Customer-service oriented
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
The candidate will need to ensure YCW eligibility prior to hiring by confirming in writing that s/he is legally entitled to work in Canada, is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident or has refugee status, is between the ages of 16 and 30 years of age at the start of the job, is registered with the YCW program and is able to commit for the full duration of the work assignment, does not have another full-time job, was enrolled as a full-time student for the semester immediately preceding the job and intends to return to full-time studies in September 2018.
To apply for this position: send your cover letter and resume by mail or email to Andrea Field, Manager of Education and Volunteer Resources
Mail:
Andrea Field, Manager of Education and Volunteer Resources
Bata Shoe Museum
327 Bloor Street West,
Toronto, ON, M5S 1W7
Email: andrea@batashoemuseum.ca
Characteristics of Toronto:
The Bata Shoe Museum is centrally located in the desirable Annex neighbourhood of downtown Toronto within a block of two subway lines and minutes from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Bloor Street shopping district and Yorkville. BSM is part of the Bloor Street Cultural Corridor.
For further information, consult these websites:
Bata Shoe Museum: batashoemuseum.ca and allaboutshoes.ca
Bloor Street Cultural Corridor: bloorstculturecorridor.com
Tourism Toronto: seetorontonow.com
City of Toronto: toronto.ca
Google maps for the location of the museum:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=327+Bloor+St+west+toronto&sll=43.671514,79.397128&sspn=0.010026,0.012982&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=327+Bloor+St+W,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&ll=43.667437,79.400017&spn=0.010027,0.012982&z=16
BSM mission and mandate:
The Bata Shoe Museum aims to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the role of footwear in the social and cultural life of humankind. It achieves this purpose by operating a public institution which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits material evidence related to the history of footwear and shoemaking for the purposes of study, education and enjoyment.
About the Bata Shoe Museum:
In the 1940s, Mrs. Sonja Bata, Founding Chairman of The Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, began collecting shoes from all over the world. In 1979, when the collection had outgrown available private storage space, she established The Bata Shoe Museum Foundation to manage the collection professionally.
The foundation has funded various field trips to collect and research footwear in areas where traditions are changing rapidly particularly among aboriginal peoples in circumpolar cultures such as Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, Lapland and northern Canada and Mongolia. The foundation has also funded the publication of various books, including "The Typology of Native Footwear: Pride of the Indian Wardrobe" on Athapaskan footwear, "The Spirit of Siberia" and "Our Boots: An Inuit Woman's Art" in 2014, "Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century", and in 2015, “Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels.”
On May 6, 1995, the BSM opened its doors at 327 Bloor Street West. The five-storey, 39,000 square foot building with four galleries, designed by Moriyama and Teshima Architects, is truly unique. There are four galleries at the museum; one of which contains the semi-permanent exhibition "All About Shoes". Exhibitions in the other three galleries change regularly. Today, the collection consists of over 13,000 shoes and related artefacts and is visited by more than 100,000 people a year, including 12,000 schoolchildren. BSM is an important tourist destination for both Canadian and international audiences.
Upcoming Exhibition – May, 2018
Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes (May 16, 2018 – January 6, 2019) is a major retrospective of the work done by one of the world’s most influential shoe designers. The Bata Shoe Museum is the final stop for this five-city travelling exhibition, and the only North American venue selected by Manolo Blahnik for the international tour.
Online Information about the Bata Shoe Museum:
About the Bata Shoe Museum
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/about-us/
Bata Shoe Museum Annual Review
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/annual-review/
Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdLL1wBuL-U
The World at Your Feet series with Senior Curator, Elizabeth Semmelhack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNVoXdqi2VA
Art and Innovation: Traditional Arctic Footwear from the Bata Shoe Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNVoXdqi2VA
Manitobah Muklulks Storyboot Project and School
http://www.manitobah.ca/pages/storybootschool
Social Media:
Twitter @batashoemuseum
Instagram #batashoemuseum
Facebook /batashoemuseum
Youtube /BataShoeMuseum
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