Community Engagement Coordinator (S'edav Va'aki Museum Assistant)

About This Position

The City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Department champions, promotes, and supports the City's arts and culture community to make Phoenix a great place to live, work, and visit. The department manages an award-winning public art program, grants funds to artists and nonprofit arts organizations, oversees a dozen cultural facilities, promotes arts learning for youth, provides professional development opportunities and participates in national studies and research that demonstrates the economic, social, practical, and educational benefits of the arts.

The Department is currently seeking a full-time Community Engagement Coordinator (Museum Assistant) to support the daily operation of S'edav Va'aki Museum. The position will oversee the administration of all front-of-house visitor experiences, including the training, supervising, scheduling, and managing of visitor services staff and volunteers. This position is also responsible for the museum's social media, website and marketing functions and is charged with creating and maintaining partnerships with other organizations to support the museum's mission. As a member of the museum's senior staff, work is performed under the general supervision of the Museum Director.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Knowledge of Museum marketing methods, social media and website engagement.
• Knowledge of budget preparation, procurement, and contract management.
• Knowledge of Southwest archaeology and current tribal communities in Arizona.
  
  

SALARY

Pay Range: $30.31 - $42.64 per hour.

Hiring Range: $30.31 - $35.08 per hour.

Pay Range Explanation

• Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
• Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.
  
  

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:

• Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information .
• 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions.
• Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans.
• Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan.
• Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually.
• Dental, vision, and life insurance options.
• Employer paid long-term disability.
• Free Bus/light rail pass.
• Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year.
• Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days.
• Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period.
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi .
  
  

For more details, visit: Unit 007 Benefits

Minimum Qualifications

• Three years of professional museum or public art collection experience
• One year in an area of specialization such as Collections Management, Educational Programming, Registrar, or exhibit design and implementation
• Bachelor's degree in archaeology, anthropology, education, fine arts, or fields related to specific assignments
• Other combinations of education and experience which meet the minimum qualifications may be substitute.
• May require working irregular hours, shifts, weekends, holidays, and evenings.
• May require working outside in a variety of environmental extremes such as heat, cold, rain, air pollution, and dust.
• All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.
• This position requires the use of personal or City vehicles on City business. Individuals must be physically capable of operating the vehicles safely, possess a valid driver's license and have an acceptable driving record. Use of a personal vehicle for City business will be prohibited if the employee is not authorized to drive a City vehicle or if the employee does not have personal insurance coverage.
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• The City job description can be found here .
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:

• Two years prior supervisory experience including training and managing staff.
• One year of experience in visitor services, customer service or museum admission practices.
• One year of experience in community engagement work to include formal presentations, relationship building, and informal outreach.
  
  

RECRUITMENT DATES

Recruitment closes August 19, 2025. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.

This is a position-based recruitment and will not result in any ongoing eligibility list. This recruitment and any selection processes resulting from this recruitment may be used to fill other related vacancies within the organization now or in the near future.

How To Apply

Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.

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REFERENCE

Museum Assistant, JC:42060, ID# 58703, 08/04/25, USM, MR, Benefits:007

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City of Phoenix is an equal opportunity employer. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national service alumni who meet the required qualifications are encouraged to apply.