Start Date: Immediate

Reports to: Partnerships Lead

Location: Mumbai

Job Summary: The ideal candidate has excellent maker facilitation skills and 3+ years of experience with makerspace, fablabs, hands-on making, education, or teaching. Applications must be based in or willing to move to Mumbai for this role. The job will involve managing a makerspace and working closely with children, particularly between 8 to 14 years of age.

Applicants should be passionate about innovation, maker movement, and open-ended projects!

About Us

The Museum of Solutions (MuSo) is a new, world-class children’s museum being developed by the JSW Foundation in Mumbai, India. MuSo’s vision is to inspire, enable, and empower children to make meaningful change in the world together, today. MuSo’s learning and engagement model is hands-on, fun, and interactive — but also focused on the real world. The museum’s programs and exhibits, inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, are designed to cultivate the knowledge, skills, mindset and actions that kids need to solve the challenges they see around them and create meaningful change in the world. MuSo will be the first interactive and immersive learning environment of its kind for children in India.

MuSo has a programming team that aims to deliver MuSo’s learning goals through engaging workshops, activities, individual and group projects that enable and empower young thinkers and makers of the city to pursue their ideas and turn them into reality.

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Responsibilities and Duties

• Facilitating workshops and training for students in areas including, but not limited to—making, tinkering, innovation, problem-based learning, design thinking, and rapid prototyping
• Supervising and facilitating student participation in the makerspace for classes and independent projects
• Maintaining the machines, tools, materials, safe use, and schedule of the makerspace
• Managing makerspace inventory and ordering equipment and materials required for classes and projects

Qualifications and Skills

• 3+ years of experience with makerspaces or fablabs
• Passionate about hands-on and interdisciplinary learning
• Strong technical skills in the use of Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, and a variety of 2D/3D design software tools
• Strong technical skills in Electronics, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, IoT
• Basic coding experience, particularly with Arduino and Scratch
• Ability to self-learn and pick up new skills quickly
• Strong classroom management skills
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills in English
• Ability to inspire and nurture students’ imagination and creativity
• Enjoys working closely with and learning from people of diverse backgrounds

Preferred Qualifications (please apply if you believe you are a good fit, even if you do not meet all of these)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Design, or Science fields, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Makerspaces/Fablabs
• Experience with coding mobile apps, web apps, Python, etc.
• Experience working with Primary or Middle School students, preferably in a makerspace environment