About Our Job

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

What We Offer

This is an on-call position, which means it is a part-time, hourly role. This position will work 16-24 hours per week and no more than 39 hours per week. The pay range for this position is $19.59 - $29.39/hour. New hires are typically brought into the organization between $19.59 - $24.49/hour. This position is eligible to enroll in the City and County of Denver’s 457b retirement plan. This position is not eligible for other additional benefits. On‐call positions may have routine or variable work schedules.

Candidates with bilingual skills in Spanish may be eligible to receive a bilingual services stipend of $50 per pay period.

Location & Schedule

The Buffalo Bill Museum is seeking a part-time Visitor Services Assistant to welcome and orient guests, provide general administrative support for museum operations, and assist with interpretation, educational programs, outreach and social media.

The typical schedule for this position will be 8:45 a.m. - 5:15 p.m., including one weekend day and some evenings, though scheduled days may vary, and scheduled hours may increase or decrease based on need and seasons.

Public transportation is not available to Lookout Mountain Park and applicants should have access to their own transportation.

Who We Are & What You’ll Do

The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave is part of the Denver Mountain Parks system and is located at Lookout Mountain Park in Golden, Colorado. Lookout Mountain Park includes the Buffalo Bill Museum and grave site, a café and gift shop, picnic area, and related facilities, and has breathtaking views of Golden and Denver.

The museum collects, preserves, and interprets artifacts and archival materials associated with William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the Wild West show, and the diverse performers who toured nationally and internationally with the show. We are a small museum with a collection of 9,000 items that is of interest to the public, collectors, and scholars. We attract local, national, and international visitors, and have a high visitation rate in comparison to the size of our staff and building footprint.

Job duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Serve as the first point-of-contact for visitors to the Buffalo Bill Museum

• Interact with the public and internal customers in person, by phone and by email in a professional, courteous manner

• Answer questions related to the Buffalo Bill Museum and history and assist visitors with research requests

• Operate the cash register, balance out the register, and prepare reports

• Keep brochures and foreign language translation guides stocked

• Open and close the museum

• Monitor security cameras, contact park rangers or law enforcement in the case of an emergency

• Assist with event preparation, educational programs, and community outreach

• Present short interpretive programs onsite

• Create content for social media following museum’s social media plan

• Create program props, worksheets, handouts, other audio/visual aids, and computer-generated presentations to enhance education and interpretive programs

• Assist with collections database including photographing artifacts and scanning archival materials

What You’ll Bring

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• An interest in history

• Experience working at a museum, cultural or natural history site

• Experience planning, development and presentation of historical and curriculum-based education programs for kindergarten through high school students

• Experience in researching, developing, and presenting a variety of place-based, educational programs on history and/or cultural resource topics for diverse audiences

• Certified Interpretive Guide certificate through the National Association for Interpretation or willingness to complete once hired