Current Employment Opportunities

The Children's Museum of Southwest Louisiana at Port Wonder has openings for the following positions.

Join our team and help create memorable experiences for children and families!

Program Coordinator

Job Summary:

This position leads the development, coordination, and delivery of joyful, impactful learning experiences for children who visit the Museum as part of a school or group or participate in its programming (on or off site). This role builds relationships with school educators and community partners, and ensures that everyone enjoys a welcoming, meaningful, and play-filled experience. This is a full-time position.

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Guest Experience Associate

Job Summary:

This position serves as the first point of contact for visitors, providing a warm welcome and ensuring an exceptional guest experience. This role involves handling admissions, answering questions, and supporting daily operations to create a fun, safe, and engaging environment for children and their families. Full-time and part-time opportunities available.

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Floor Lead

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for leading frontline operations and helping manage front-line staff, including Guest Experience Associates and Play Engineers. The Lead supports the admissions staff in ticket and gift shop sales and provides support in play facilitation. The Lead is responsible for upholding Museum policies and procedures while fostering a safe, positive, and engaging experience for museum visitors. The Lead serves as the primary point of contact for frontline staff and visitors, helping to inform and make decisions that impact frontline operational needs. This is a part-time position.

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Play Engineer

Job Summary:

In this role, you will play a vital part in maintaining a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for children and their families. Your duties will include monitoring exhibits, engaging with visitors, and keeping the museum’s exhibit areas tidy. You will also assist in guiding school groups through exhibit galleries and occasionally help with parties. This is a part-time position.

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Children’s Museum of Southwest Louisiana’s mission is to provide an educational and fun environment that encourages curiosity, creativity and social skills through hands on programs and exhibits.

Our goal is to educate children through play and discovery while aiding in a child’s development and understanding of the world around them and to encourage a lifelong passion for the arts and sciences. This includes exhibits, workshops, and other activities for the children's benefit.

We believe play is powerful and universal. Play can unite people across different cultures, backgrounds and beliefs.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion. We appreciate and respect all people and embrace the similarities and differences that arise through race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, language, religion, mental and physical ability, nation of origin and citizenship status. We want our exhibit areas and programs to be inclusive for all. We provide opportunities that help people facing disparities achieve their full potential. We want a child to believe the sky is the limit and that he or she is capable of anything.

The Children’s Museum of Southwest Louisiana aligns its beliefs with the Association of Children’s Museums. The ACM is an international professional organization representing children’s museums and institutions dedicated to serving children. Its mission is to champion children’s museums as we pursue our vision of a world that honors all children and respects the diverse ways in which they learn and develop. The Association and its members are committed to honoring, practicing and promoting diversity, and believe that children’s museums have unique opportunities to do so by:

Engaging children and families in exploring and appreciating their own cultures and the diverse cultures and lifestyles of others.
Enhancing children’s cultural competence, necessary for their active and successful participation in an increasingly diverse and global society.
Playing an active role in building inclusive communities through exhibits, programs, advocacy and partnerships that reflect and celebrate our diverse communities.
Enhancing staff and organizational capacity to attract, welcome and serve a diverse audience and membership.
Modeling their commitment by ensuring our boards and staff at every level reflect and benefit from our diverse communities.