Megan Jones-Smith

Program Assistant at Austin Waldorf School
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Austin, Texas, United States, US
Languages
  • French Limited working proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Primary and Secondary Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Program Assistant
      • Feb 2022 - Present
    • United States
    • Retail
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Remote Stylist
      • Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

      Provided personalized remote styling services to a select customer base. Provided personalized remote styling services to a select customer base.

    • United States
    • Retail Apparel and Fashion
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Remote Stylist
      • Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
    • United States
    • Wholesale Building Materials
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Project Manager
      • 2007 - 2010

      Responsibilities: High-end sales and project management, coordinating with homeowners, architects, contractors, interior designers and hardware suppliers to select and provide architectural hardware appropriate to individual project needs, on time and within budget, while handling multiple distinct projects at any given time. Working to expand the company’s client base as we moved locations and doubled our showroom. Relationship building between prominent San Francisco design and building firms and hardware suppliers. Show less

    • United States
    • Retail
    • Vice President of Client Services
      • 2004 - 2006

      Responsibilities: Working as a sales liaison between clients and conservators to ensure the approval of conservation projects and their completion on time, with care and within budget. Managerial oversight and coordination of multiple overlapping conservation projects on behalf of these major corporate, private and institutional clients. Preparation and editing of written materials including monthly newsletters, website content, and articles for industry-related publications and presentation of public educational programming. Supervision of administrative staff including the Center’s internship program. Growth and development of the Center’s team and client base as we expanded our conservation staff, range of services offered and materials treated and added a secondary workspace facility. Management of joint fundraising and preservation efforts with the city of Chicago to conserve Works Progress Administration murals in schools and park buildings. Press coordination on behalf of major projects. Show less

    • Special Projects Officer
      • 2003 - 2004

      Responsibilities: Project coordination of conservation efforts on behalf of selected major private, corporate and public collections to ensure they were completed with care and to the clients’ timeline, with a focus on mural restoration projects nationwide. Preparation and editing of written materials including monthly newsletters, website content, and articles for industry-related publications, and presentation of public educational programming. Management of internship programs.

    • Director of Administrative Services
      • 2003 - 2003

      Responsibilities: Client services, including intake of artwork, client communications, preparation and editing of all Center paperwork and general office management.

    • Co-ordinator, summer artists’ workshop program
      • 2002 - 2002

      Co-ordinator, summer artists’ workshop program, 2002 Responsibilities: Management of a series of summer workshops, including identification of potential instructors from a field of local artists, coordinating program dates, class sizes, materials and budget, student enrolment, and general promotion and publicity. Co-ordinator, summer artists’ workshop program, 2002 Responsibilities: Management of a series of summer workshops, including identification of potential instructors from a field of local artists, coordinating program dates, class sizes, materials and budget, student enrolment, and general promotion and publicity.

    • Writing and Editing
    • Exhibitions Internship
      • 2001 - 2002

      Responsibilities: Preparation of a display proposal for contemporary San culture within KwaZulu-Natal, based on the identification and selection of works and supportive media. Working with a team of curators to restructure the storage systems in place for San works held within the Museum’s permanent collection. Responsibilities: Preparation of a display proposal for contemporary San culture within KwaZulu-Natal, based on the identification and selection of works and supportive media. Working with a team of curators to restructure the storage systems in place for San works held within the Museum’s permanent collection.

    • Temporary Lecturer (Art History)
      • 2001 - 2002

      Responsibilities: Planning and presenting the first of two sections of a third-year course in Museum Practice, including project assignment and assessment. Responsibilities: Planning and presenting the first of two sections of a third-year course in Museum Practice, including project assignment and assessment.

    • Gallery Manager
      • 2000 - 2002

      Responsibilities: Developing the Gallery’s exhibition and events schedule in coordination with the programming committee, which included both researched and invitational programs and an annual traveling exhibit of work by Center staff and MFA students. Supervision of exhibit installation and three assistant installers. Coordinating invitations, catering and publicity for exhibit openings and the production of support material. Responsibilities: Developing the Gallery’s exhibition and events schedule in coordination with the programming committee, which included both researched and invitational programs and an annual traveling exhibit of work by Center staff and MFA students. Supervision of exhibit installation and three assistant installers. Coordinating invitations, catering and publicity for exhibit openings and the production of support material.

    • Assistant Lecturer (Art History)
      • 2000 - 2000

      Responsibilities: Planning and presentation of tutorials on Western Art History and African Art History for first and second year students. Responsibilities: Planning and presentation of tutorials on Western Art History and African Art History for first and second year students.

    • Art and English Teacher, Grades 6 through 10
      • 1997 - 1998

      Responsibilities: Planning and presenting lessons with supportive media, organising relevant field excursions, and preparing formal assessment including tests, essays, projects and exams. Organizing an exhibit of Southern African artworks, sourced from my own collection and that of other volunteers in the region, and training student volunteers to lead community tours of the exhibit that served as a successful fundraising effort for local art education programs and supplies. Responsibilities: Planning and presenting lessons with supportive media, organising relevant field excursions, and preparing formal assessment including tests, essays, projects and exams. Organizing an exhibit of Southern African artworks, sourced from my own collection and that of other volunteers in the region, and training student volunteers to lead community tours of the exhibit that served as a successful fundraising effort for local art education programs and supplies.

Education

  • University of North Texas
    Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, School Librarianship
    2022 - 2025
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal
    Master of Arts - MA, Art History, Criticism and Conservation
    1999 - 2001
  • University of Toronto
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, African Studies
    1993 - 1995
  • Mount Allison University
    History
    1991 - 1993

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