Volunteers are an essential part of the Museum's operations. Without the dedicated efforts of volunteers, we could not sustain the quality or quantity of services and programs that we provide to our community. Thank you ACM volunteers!!
ACM offers a variety of volunteer opportunities for adults and teens. We look for individuals who are interested in working directly with visitors and those who would like to help out behind the scenes. Contact us at volunteer@austinkids.org.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Baby Bloomers
Description: Join Gallery Educators in facilitating one of the Museum’s most popular and longest running programs. Baby Bloomers is a special time for children 0-3 and their caregivers. Baby Bloomers Volunteers assist in welcoming families with young children as well as presenting age appropriate educational activities for babies and toddlers. Activities include reading stories to groups, participating in sing-a-longs, facilitating learning in museum exhibits and guiding parents and children in sensory and play learning.
Schedule: Monday mornings 9am-noon |
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Special Skills: Baby Bloomers volunteers must be energetic and able to walk or stand for long periods. Experience and/or interest in early childhood or child development preferred. Volunteers must be willing to perform some minor cleaning duties (sanitizing toys and activity supplies as needed) Comfort in working with adults and children of all ages, race, abilities and background required. Spanish fluency helpful.
Gallery Helper
Description: Assist Museum staff in facilitating learning in the Museum Galleries. Primary tasks include supervising visitors at the Funstruction Zone Exhibit slide, working in the Design Center Exhibit, assisting with Story time and rotating through gallery spaces to keep them safe and fun.
Schedule: Tuesday- Friday 12-4 / Saturday 12-5 / Sunday 1-5
Special Skills: Gallery Helper volunteers must be energetic and able to walk or stand for long periods. Experience and/or interested in informal education preferred. Volunteers must be willing to perform some minor cleaning duties (sanitizing toys, exhibits and activity supplies as needed). Comfort in working with adults and children of all ages, race, abilities and background required. Spanish fluency helpful. |
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Info Desk/Greeter
Description: Join our Gallery Educators and Customer Service staff in welcoming visitors into the Museum. Greet families in a cheerful and enthusiastic manner. Answer questions about the Museum, it’s programs and exhibits.
Schedule: Tuesday- Friday 10-1/ Saturday 11-3 / Sunday 1-4
Special Skills: Info Desk and Greeter volunteers must be enthusiastic about assisting visitors and able to answer basic questions about ACM. Customer Service experience is helpful. Spanish fluency helpful.
School Tour Assistant
Description: School Program Tour Assistants work with Gallery Education staff to provide visiting school groups with engaging, effective, inquiry based learning experiences. Assistants work along side Tour Guides and provide support in all the duties of the Tour Guide.
Shifts: Tuesday – Friday 9:15-11:30 and 11:15-1:30 (availability tour shifts depends on tour reservation schedule- see whentohelp calendar for details)
Special Skills: Tour Assistant volunteers must be energetic and able to walk or stand for long periods. Experience and/or interested in informal learning and science education preferred. Volunteers must be willing to perform some minor cleaning duties (sanitizing toys and activity supplies as needed). Comfort in working with adults and children of all ages, race, abilities and background required. Spanish fluency helpful.
School Tour Guide
Description: Tour Guides lead class groups (grades PreK- 3rd) through the museum exhibits and facilitate learning for students through questions, exploration and play. Tour guides present exhibit information to groups of students as well as facilitate story times and science experiments. School Tour Guide volunteers must have completed 6 shifts as a School Tour Assistant and have approval of Gallery Education Manager.
Shifts: Tuesday – Friday 9:15- 11:30 and 11:15- 1:30.
Special Skills: Tour Guide volunteers must be energetic and able to walk or stand for long periods. Experience in informal learning and science education preferred. Volunteers must be willing to perform some minor cleaning duties (sanitizing toys and activity supplies as needed). Comfort in working with adults and children of all ages, race, abilities and background required. Spanish fluency helpful. |
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Educational Programs Assistant
Description: Educational Programs Assistants work closely with Museum staff to facilitate both planned and spontaneous learning experiences for program participants. Specific tasks include: facilitating science demonstrations, assisting children with hands-on activities, guiding learning in the Museum exhibits and preparing lesson materials. Programs include Summer and Spring Break Camps, Sleepovers, workshops and events.
Schedule: Varies- see when to help volunteer calendar for specific dates and times |
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Special Skills: Program Assistant volunteers must be energetic and able to walk or stand for long periods. Experience in informal learning and science education preferred. Volunteers must be willing to perform some minor cleaning duties (sanitizing toys and activity supplies as needed). Comfort in working with adults and children of all ages, race, abilities and background required.
Materials Prep
Description: Assist the education team in preparing and sorting materials for exhibits and programs. Tasks include sorting and organizing donated materials, preparing activity specific materials and other tasks on an as needed basis.
Schedule: Flexible. See calendar
Special Skills: Material prep volunteers must be able to work independently. Attention to detail and good organizational skills a must.
Behind the Scenes
Description: Assist our administrative staff with a variety of office tasks. Duties range from data entry, mailing prep, filing, sorting, working with digital archives and other tasks as needed.
Schedule: Flexible. See calendar.
Special Skills: Experience with Microsoft Office software helpful but not necessary. Attention to detail, good organizational skills and ability to work independently a must.
Photographer
Description: Share your artistic and technical talents with the Austin Children’s Museum! The Marketing & Communications Department is seeking experienced and student photographers to help expand our photo library. We need help capturing moments of fun, inspiration, family learning and behind the scenes work across our Museum’s programs, exhibits and events both on and off-site. Photographer will also be responsible for obtaining photo releases for shots taken. Must provide own photo equipment and have ability to deliver final digital files back to ACM.
Schedule: Varies- See when to help calendar for details.
Special Skills: Experience, good public contact skills. Spanish fluency helpful.
Internships
ACM offers career building opportunities to university students and recent graduates. Work closely with Museum staff in the Education, Development, Finance and Marketing departments to develop your professional skills and learn more about the Museum field. Available opportunities are listed on the Museum's Jobs page.
Youth Volunteers
The Museum strives to extend our mission to individuals who have aged out of our programs and exhibits but are not yet old enough to participate as adult volunteers. We offer 2 seasonal programs for youth volunteers - Junior Volunteers (ages 12-17) and Counselors In Training (ages 14-18). Learn more and apply.
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