Opportunities

On-Call Visitor Engagement Associate

The Wende Museum is seeking a dependable and detail-oriented individual to join our team in an on-call capacity, providing essential administrative and hospitality support. This role is designed for those with flexibility during weekdays to assist with donor hospitality, guest services, and various administrative tasks, with the possibility of additional hours on weekends.

Start Date: Open
Schedule: On-call weekdays, 4-16 hours per week (with additional weekend hours available)

Roles and Responsibilities
• Providing front-of-house guest services, including greeting and registering guests
• Supporting donor hospitality by serving and replenishing catering, ensuring a welcoming environment
• Ordering food, managing inventory, and handling catering logistics
• Assisting with event setup, logistics, and breakdown
• Performing administrative duties as needed to support museum operations
• Contributing to the overall cleanliness, organization, and upkeep of our facilities

Ideal Candidate
• Service-minded with a professional demeanor
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage time effectively
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing tasks and priorities
• Enthusiastic about history, fine art, humanities, or political science
• Dependable with the flexibility to accommodate an on-call schedule, including potential weekend hours

Skills & Experience
• Experience in a customer-facing role such as hospitality, foodservice, events, or retail
• Administrative experience in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Mac OS, iOS, Microsoft Office Suite, and Google Docs
• Strong practical math skills

The Wende Museum is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds, including people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those without formal education, to apply

How to Apply
Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter as a single PDF attachment with the subject line “On-Call Administrative & Hospitality Support” to James Canto, Head of Visitor Engagement, at jcanto@wendemuseum.org.

Call for Teaching Artist

The Wende Museum is seeking a dynamic and innovative teaching artist to facilitate a multi-workshop arts project for high school students of the Wende Teen Council during the 2024-25 school year.

Teaching artists are invited to propose a collaborative project in which students learn multidisciplinary creative skills and apply digital and/or material assets from the Wende Museum Collection and current exhibitions into their works.

Project workshops will be facilitated primarily on-site at the Wende Museum between November 2024 and May 2025, and proposed workshops can encompass up to six to ten two-hour sessions. Final presentation of the completed projects will take place at the Wende Teen Night in May 2025.

Candidates will be considered based on the artistic merit and institutional fit of their proposal and demonstrated experience in arts education, especially with high school-age students.

The Museum offers a fee of $1,500, plus the cost of all project supplies.

To apply, please submit a brief concept proposal (no more than two pages), budget, and CV to Head of Education Michael Balot-Garza at education@wendemuseum.org. Questions are also welcome–please direct any inquiries to the same contact.

Applications are due August 31st, 2024.

Collections Internship

“Wende” is a German word that means “transformation.” It is commonly used to describe the era of uncertainty and possibility leading up to and following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Headquartered in a renovated National Guard Armory in Culver City, the Wende Museum is a cultural laboratory that pairs unparalleled collections from the Cold War era with contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, scholars, and others. The Wende’s collection encompasses more than 100,000 holdings, ranging from consumer products to fine art, political symbols, audiovisual materials, spy equipment, posters, ephemera, commemoratives, books, archives, and personal histories.

The Wende Museum offers Collections Internships for currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students, as well as recent graduates who are interested in gaining experience in collection management, collection development, and artifact research. Positions are part-time, paid at $17/hour for 120 hours, and available for course credit. Internships are offered year-round, typically beginning in January, June, and September.

The Collections Internship will focus on cataloging the Museum’s incoming acquisitions and existing backlog. Interns will gain experience in key areas of object handling, processing objects, and using a museum database (Mimsy XG). Interns will have the opportunity to directly work with artifacts from the Cold War and be exposed to a variety of museum activities. Potential interns must meet the following criteria for consideration:

• Be available to work part-time between Monday and Friday;
• Have completed at least one semester of college by the time of application;
• Possess an interest in museum studies, collections management, history, and/or material and visual culture of the Cold War;
• Be comfortable working with databases and computers;
• Be detail-oriented, self-motivated, and independent, with excellent communication skills;
• A reading knowledge of German, Russian, or an Eastern European Language is helpful but not required.

We are currently accepting applications for our Winter internship, set to begin January 2025, through November 1. To apply, please fill out this form and send a cover letter outlining your interest and a current resume to internships@wendemuseum.org.

Please indicate that you are applying for the Collections Internship, both in the email subject and cover letter.