Position Title: Ford W. Bell Fellow for Museums & P-12 Education
Department/Office: Center for the Future of Museums (CFM)
Organization: American Alliance of Museums (AAM)
Supervisor: VP, Strategic Foresight and Founding Director, CFM
Status: Two-year, full-time position
Salary range: $47,000 – $71,000 plus benefits
Location: Washington, DC Metropolitan area, with significant travel

The Ford W. Bell Fellow for Museums & P-12 Education will research, develop and implement plans for the Alliance’s initiative to integrate museums into the education and learning environments of the next era of P-12 education in the United States. This is an opportunity for you to shape the next educational era, exploring the boundaries of how museums can contribute to learning.

As Bell Fellow you will report to the Director of CFM and collaborate with Government Relations and the Development at the American Alliance of Museums. You will help operationalize the recommendations of the Alliance’s 2014 report “Building the Future of Education: Museums and the Learning Ecosystem,” in order to establish how AAM will:

• Spread the Word (compile and share information needed to guide planning and decision making by museums, educators and learners)
• Disrupt Conventional Dialogue (promote ideas that disrupt conventional thinking about education and expand our conception of the educational landscape)
• Create Systemic Change (instigate innovative experiments that could increase the role museums play in education)

For more information, please please visit the CFM's webpage