October 23rd, 2025, 12:00 am - December 5th, 2025, 6:00 pm CST
Location: New York, NY
Host: American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition.
The Education department is seeking a full-time Director, Children and Family Learning (CFL) to lead CFL’s out-of-school time (OST) programming children ages Pre-K to 5th grade and their families. The Director’s scope includes developing, maintaining and managing and effective team to carry out CFL’s work and developing and implementing long-term strategy for children’s learning and family engagement at the Museum.
Job duties include, but are not limited to:
- In partnership with the Senior Director, develop and implement long-term strategy for CFL, advancing the Museum’s mission and strategic plan.
Deepen the CFL staff’s sense of community and belonging. - Cultivate relationships with local and national institutions to develop new joint funding/programming opportunities.
- Supervise departmental Assistant Directors, Senior Managers, Managers and administrative staff.
- Support program design, staff assignments and allocation of resources.
- Lead the development of profit and loss statements, annual budget development, monitoring and revenue projections.
- Directly manage part-time departmental staff.
- Engage in ongoing cultivation/relationship building with program participants.
- Collaborate with Museum leadership on crafting proposals and completing reports.
The expected salary range for the Director, Children and Family Learning is $140,000/annual – $155,000/annual. The AMNH offers an extensive benefits package designed to meet the needs of our dedicated and diverse community.