Please note: MoPA’s Art Classes operate from 4.00pm until 5.30pm; meaning that you will be required to work weekdays, from 3pm until 6.30pm, allowing for setup and pack down before and after class. For term 1, classes will run from the first week of February until the last week of March – and depending on class enrolments, you may be required to work these hours from 2 to 5 days each week (Monday to Friday). A similar commitment is required for Term 2, 3 and 4. Students thrive off the connections and bonds they develop with the teaching fraternity, and we’re passionate about enabling this by ensuring the same teaching staff teach the classes. For this reason, please only apply for a Teaching Role if you’re available to work on weekdays, in the afternoons, during each school term of 2025.

Role description:

MoPA is famous for all the magical experiences we deliver. If you are successful in your application to join our teaching team, you will work with our amazing lead educator to learn the Term 1 curriculum and deliver it to a cohort of up to 12 students aged from 4 to 12 years old.

Our art classes are all about creativity, but they are also about building meaningful relationships among the student cohort, and nurturing the students confidence and wellbeing. And so to be successful in this role, you will have had good experience managing dynamic classrooms before, and thrive off the busy and creative energy of ART CLASSES.

• You will be an eager learner yourself – because the curriculum you’re delivering will be brand new.
• You are extremely resourceful and have an innate ability to manage really dynamic situations with grace – because things will not always go to plan and you’ll never be a challenge or two to work through.
• You will have an incredible eye for detail – because your setup and pack down processes will ensure the exceptional hygiene and cleanliness the Museum is already famous for are well maintained.
• But most of all you are a passionate teacher and a master of student engagement – your passion for teaching will shine through, and your students will thrive off the attention and care with which you apply in your craft.

Give me more:

• Term 1 enrolments commence early in January 2025. At least 2 classes will then be made available, on MON and TUE afternoons, with more classes made available once those two afternoons are sold out

• The curriculum, class structure, and all the supplies will all be provided, but only YOU can bring the heart. Student engagement and learning will be so heavily influenced by what you bring to their class, as their teacher – and only YOU can provide this.
• You will be required to manage the classes from end to end. You will ensure everything is setup for your students, ready to go for their arrival, then you will deliver the class in full providing supervision and engagement throughout, and then once you’ve said goodbye and shared the learning experience with each of the parents picking up, you will pack everything down again and perform an impeccable clean for the next team who use the art room the next day.

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Have worked in a classroom environment before, likely art classes just like these ones!

• Be available to work at all times noted above.

• Be a born ‘people person’ (You just LOVE engaging with children and carers of all ages and abilities).

• Be a naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do.

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

This role supports the museum chef in preparing the very best food offer to MoPA standards. From cutting, chopping, assembling and presenting our cafe and catering range, you will take pride in every piece you put on display.

To be considered for this position, you must

• Have worked in a busy cafe style kitchen with exceptionally high standards and revel in a fast paced environment
• Have the ability to take direction but also work autonomously to cook, prepare, assemble the range of  snacks, sandwiches, food platters, etc
• Be comfortable engaging with cafe team members who you co-share the cafe/kitchen space with

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week. Please only apply for a Cafe role if you’re available to work 2-4 shifts per week during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

This role supports the cafe supervisor in delivering the very best guest experience. From opening with beautifully displayed food counters and closing tasks, ensuring the next day team walk into a perfectly ready cafe, to food and beverage order taking and service, coffee making, bussing cafe tables, restocking and most importantly keeping the cafe impeccably clean and tidy.

To be considered for this position, you will:

• • Have worked in a busy cafe with exceptionally high standards and revel in a fast paced service environment
  • Have the ability to make an amazing coffee, take orders with genuine enthusiasm and have pride in how you present food to your guests
  • Be comfortable engaging with children and parents alike with a genuine kind and caring nature
  • Love cleaning, tidying, restocking, wiping, vacuuming, cleaning, emptying bins, clearing tables and did I mention cleaning!
  • Be naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do.

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

Our delightful crew of Cafe Team Members are responsible for ensuring that our cafe is the cleanest, yummiest haven for nutrients that our guests could ever ask for. Each day they’re the first team members in – prepping the for the day ahead. They then busily tend to guests orders for our delicious food and coffee menu, maintaining an impeccable environment within the serving area but also in the cafe eating areas, and scrub the place impeccably clean at the end of the day to ensure tomorrows team get a head start into another busy day.

You will be comfortable engaging with children and parents alike, you will demonstrate a genuinely kind and caring nature by helping anyone and everyone with whatever their needs may be, and you will be a ‘service machine’, endlessly re-strocking, tidying, wiping, vacuuming, emptying bins and doing all it takes to maintain the exceptionally high standard of cleanliness and hygiene that MoPA are famous for.

Give me more:

• You’ll be rostered for 2-4 shifts per week of between 3 and 8 hours each

• Most shifts occur on weekends, however some shifts will also occur on weekdays

• Most shifts will be during the Museum’s typical operating hours (approx. 8.30am til 5.30pm) however some shifts will end later (9.30pm, at the latest) when events/functions occur in the Museum

• You’ll be on your feet all day

• Fastidious and constant cleaning and tidying of all areas

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Have worked in a busy cafe with exceptionally high standards already, and you revel in this environment.

• Be available to work at least 3 full day shifts per week.

• Be a born ‘people person’ (You just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).

• Be a naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do.

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

The role is responsible for ensuring that every single visitor has a truly exceptional and memorable experience at MoPA. This is demonstrated through your endless energy and enthusiasm for children, families and play. You love to dance, paint, build, tell stories as well as hosting parties and excursions whilst maintaining an eye for detail on the cleanliness of the museum.

Give me more:

• You’ll be rostered for 2-4 shifts per week of between 3 and 8 hours each

• Most shifts occur on weekends, however some shifts will also occur on weekdays

• Most shifts will be during the Museum’s typical operating hours (approx. 8.30am til 5.30pm) however some shifts will end later (9.30pm, at the latest) when events/functions occur in the Museum.

• You’ll be on your feet all day – because there’s always something that can be cleaned. But rest assured, all day you’ll also be laughing, dancing and having loads of fun with our team and our guests!

• You’ll be running a host of scheduled activities such as dance parties, craft, games and classes

• Fastidious and constant cleaning and tidying of all areas, exhibits and facilities

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Ideally have worked with children in an educational capacity – many of our team are future, current or past formal educators.
• Be comfortable hosting parties, excursions, dance parties, painting sessions, craft building with individuals and groups
• Be confident in enforcing safety guidelines for our guests (outside food policy and play safe areas)
• Love cleaning, tidying, restocking, wiping, cleaning, emptying bins, dusting, and did I mention cleaning!
• Be a naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality and just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year – and our Barista Extraordinaire will be required to work weekends!

Role description:

MoPA Sandringham is already famous for it’s delicious coffee – but you will take this fame to new levels. You’re a passionate, reliable, service-orientated barista with a passion for the entire cafe offering, not just the coffee. You’re also ready to step up and take on additional duties to maintain stocktakes and ordering, food safety, immaculate cleanliness standards, liquor training + compliance, and more.

To be considered for this position, you must:

• Make an absolute monster of a latte – the perfect coffee, every time (of course!)

• Have a passion for good honest customer service – with unwavering patience and a cool head during the busiest of times

• Be capable of much more than swinging the group head around like a seasoned cowboy – because you’ll also be responsible for stocktakes, inventory management in the cafe, maintaining an impeccable menu and testing new items, and more.

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

We are looking for talented, efficient, passionate full-on foodies to pop into the Museum each morning and prep the Geelong Museum’s cafe for a successful day of food trade. On any given day, this may include managing stock levels, placing orders, overseeing the sourcing and receipt of top quality ingredients from a network of local providers, and then most importantly – all the preparation of the food that MoPA will serve through both the cafe and to our gorgeous party guests, supporting our very busy party schedule.

Core Responsibilities:

MoPA’s cafe provides a relatively simple but very carefully considered food service to guests of the Museum. As a member of the team overseeing this food operation, you will likely be the first person into work each morning, evaluating the Museums food requirements for the next few days, and ensuring the appropriate goods and ingredients are available, preparing those ingredients to make snacks, meals, platters, etc that meet the requirements of the day’s trade, maintaining the exceptional quality standards we’re famous for at MoPA, and iterating the menu to try new things and build on the success of this gorgeous little cafe.

To be considered for this position, you must

• Have first-hand experience doing much of what we need you to do here at MoPA. Specifically, ordering and managing food levels and suppliers, prepping cafe food for service, maintaining cleanliness and operational excellence to the highest of standards in a busy venue-based hospitality operation.

• Be a born ‘hospo’ person… A naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do!