Current Job Opening
at the PoMo Museum
Job Title: Museum Assistant - Canada Summer Jobs - Contract - 2 positions
Duration: 13 weeks, end date of August 31st, 2025
Hours: 35 hours a week, weekends are required, with potential for some evenings
Rate of Pay: $18.20/hr
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Share the heritage of Port Moody with individuals and groups through facilitating access to collections, displays, and grounds. Utilize your skills to reach new audiences and keep existing audiences in touch.
The successful candidates will assist with programs, exhibit research, in collections, tours, special events, and do other varied duties around the museum. Must be reliable, possess good written and oral communication skills in English, have strong computer skills, and be able to take initiative.
ABOUT YOU:
- You have a passion for history and educating others
- Are a self-starter
- Good verbal communicator
- Not shy around members of the public Client facing role
- A good team member, able to work with full-time, part-time, and contract museum workers and volunteers.
- Willing/able to commute to the Museum daily.
- Experience utilizing Office 365, meta business suite, Canva, etc.
Key Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in daily Museum operation
o Opening, closing, cleaning, greeting guests, assisting with exhibit set up/tear down, and signage updates as needed.
o Manage sales utilizing Point of Sale system including in-gallery programs, books, art cards, etc.
- During programs, facilitate learners through guided activities such as birthdays, archaeology digs, and other programs.
o Assist with booking for events and rentals including tracking, payment, and follow-up.
o For parties up to 16 child participants, run from start to finish. For parties of 17 or more, work with another member of staff or a volunteer to run from start to finish.
o Research/development for program creation
- Assist with develop or redevelop marketing materials in line with POMO Museum brand guideline utilizing Canva
o Utilize Marketing schedule to develop posts, prints, newsletters, etc. for approval by the Manager.
- Research topics set by management for future internal use, research on behalf of inquiring scholars.
o Utilize reporting tools to create clear concise information packets as needed.
- Other tasks as needed
Requirements
Consistent with the criteria of the Canada Summer Jobs program, applicants must also meet the following criteria:
• Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada (non-Canadians holding temporary work visas or awaiting permanent status are not eligible) and are legally entitled to work in Canada
• Between 16 and 30 years of age at the start of employment
• Not have another full-time job (over 30 hours/week) during assignment
Please reference the Canada Summer Jobs website for further eligibility details
Accessibility
We are in a heritage building with stairs which may cause a barrier to some individuals
Job perks
- Job training and professional development
Applications close 30 May 2025
Send resume and cover letter to Bryn at marketing@pomo.museum
