Perform clerical functions to assist the site manager. This may include database management, data entry, help with mailings, etc. It could also include inventory management for bookstore items.
Familiarize yourself with the content of the house and share that information with visitors. Answer questions, lead tours and welcome guests. Tours can last up to forty-five minutes and should include time for questions. You can choose to portray historical figures in costume. Feel free to make the presentation your own!
Maintain a clean and welcoming museum environment by assisting with sweeping, dusting, tidying and fixing. General handy-person skills will be utilized in a number of specific projects. Grounds maintenance may include planting, weeding, watering, picking up trash and sweeping.
Conduct transactions for admissions and store items, re-stock shelves and maintain cash drawer. It could include inventory management for bookstore items. Familiarize yourself with the products offered and with Harriet’s life and times.
Assist the site manager with press releases, neighborhood or targeted publicity, management of our website and social media accounts.
Serve as a guide for our urban history walking tour program on weekends from June to September.
Help deliver the vegetables to those in need. Three of the community gardens are located in Mt. Auburn and our main garden is located behind our building.
Help weed, plant, and upkeep our garden.
‘- Collecting and sorting through donations. – Help one-on-one with laundry (loading, unloading, folding) – Sign in/welcoming. – Watching children/keeping kids entertained (background check required)
The Welcome Home Collaborative includes the maintenance and / remodeling of properties to be used for Transitional Housing for use in the Transitional Housing aspect of our program. The Welcome Home Collaborative will seek to use volunteers and also to use individuals that are either homeless or working poor to remodel and renovate these buildings.…