Work for the Blog!

Do you ever read our blog and think, "Hmm, this is great, but they should be writing about XY&Z"? If so, we need you! The Museum is looking for a great writer and reporter to intern/volunteer here this summer. The right person would have a creative spirit, a curious nature, and love what we do here at the Museum. We have a lot of great ideas and look forward to hearing yours!

Communications & New Media Intern

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is seeking a communications/writing intern for summer 2010 to assist with its blog. Responsibilities include:

- Museum blog:
    o Work with the Museum’s Public Relations Manager to brainstorm content
    o Research and write posts based on LES history, artifacts, or current events that relate to tour content
    o Interview LES business owners, historians, Museum staff, or others with a compelling story to tell
    o Write posts about upcoming Tenement Talks and recaps of past events
- Additional:
    o Write descriptions for Tenement Talks events
    o Brainstorm web marketing and ways to better reach our public
    o Assist with social media content

Responsibilities might, if intern is interested, extend to editing podcasts and video content for posting on Tenement Museum YouTube channel and blog.

Our communications intern should expect to commit about 6-10 hours per week researching and writing. Days are flexible, including the possibility of doing some work from home or library, but we would like you to be in the office at least two afternoons per week.

Internship is unpaid, but you will receive great perks: free tours at the museum, a discount at the museum shop, and of course clips for your portfolio. You’ll also be supporting one of New York’s most popular small museums and working with a great group of people. Just ask former blog intern Liana!

Please submit a cover letter, resume, and brief writing sample (something that shows your journalistic skills) via email. No phone calls please.

Come work for us

The President’s Office is pleased to announce the following employment opportunity:

The President of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks an Executive Assistant to support all the responsibilities of the office of the President and to represent the President to the Museum’s internal and external audiences.

The Executive Assistant supports the President in board relations and development, fundraising, collaboration with other organizations, and special projects.

The Executive Assistant manages the President’s calendar and tasks; prepares the documents for the quarterly meetings of the Board of Trustees and its Committees; takes minutes at the Board and Committee meetings; schedules appointments for Board members, staff, and prospective donors; and supports the Museum’s Executive Vice President.

The Assistant also conducts weekly tours of the Museum’s l9th century tenement.

Applicants must be exceedingly well organized, personable, outgoing, persistent, persuasive, and diplomatic with excellent computer, writing, and social skills. Salary in the high 30s/good benefits.

Please email cover letter and resume. Position will be open until filled. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is an equal-opportunity employer.

National Public Housing Museum Seeks Project Director

If you happen to be job hunting, a new museum in Chicago dedicated to preserving a Great Depression-era public housing development is looking for a project manager to oversee planning and grant writing for Our Stories: Resident Voices of Public Housing, a program supported by a Planning Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Email your CV or resume to kmagee(at)publichousingmuseum.org, or fax it to 312.641.5736.


The only remaining building in the Jane Addams Homes complex, established in 1938 on Chicago's Near West Side.

-posted by Liana Grey