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MoPA operates a growing network of world-class Children’s Museums. The teams that work inside the Museum’s, and the HQ team that support them, are all truly wonderful individuals. We’re blessed to be surrounded by so many great people, but it hasn’t happened by accident.

Here at MoPA, ahead of anything else, we ‘hire for heart’. By hiring with a focus on kindness and positive intent, we have managed to assemble a diverse group of people who are united by their passion for play-based learning but also by their genuinely kind nature. Our team members are all the type of person that run to hold doors open for complete strangers, the type that can’t wipe the smiles from our faces (even on a rainy day), and the type that jump in to help each other out in times of need.

Our team members come from a range of backgrounds; from early-learning centres to primary-school art teaching, from study in occupational therapy to dance class co-ordinators, and all corners of the hospitality sector. And while we’re a diverse bunch, we’re also closely united by a common belief that providing safe, clean, rich opportunities for play-based learning and creativity will paint a brighter future.

If this team and this environment sounds like a good fit for you, we’d LOVE to meet you; regardless of your background, location, age, skills, education or experience.

Below you’ll find all current vacancies at our museums, and in our HQ Team. You’ll also find details of how to apply for any position.

If you have any questions, we’re also very happy to help – please call us on 1800 00 66 72, any day, any time.

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Cafe Supervisor & Barista – Nunawading

New!

You love coffee, you love customer service, you love a clean and well-maintained working environment, and you’re ready to lead our brand new cafe in Nunawading.

  • Based: Nunawading
  • Category: Cafe Roles
  • Location: Nunawading
  • Position: Full-Time, Part-Time
  • Frequency: 4-5 days per week (including weekends)
  • Length: 8-9 hours per shift
  • Salary: FTE $60,000 ++

Role description:

This role involves managing the daily operations of The Museum Café and delivering outstanding guest experiences. It is a 100% hands-on position, ‘doing the do’ sometimes by yourself, but also overseeing a small casual/part-time team responsible for opening, closing, and front-of-house activities, including food presentation, order taking, food and beverage service, coffee making, food rotation, and waste management. Additionally, the café supervisor handles café cleaning, inventory replenishment, restocking, and urgently resolving repairs and maintenance issues.

To be considered for this position, you will:

  • Have experience in leading a team in a fast paced cafe and being a jack of all trades: barista (must be able make a great coffee), order taker, server, bussy, cleaner, quality controller, food preparer etc
  • Be super passionate about customer care and service – with unwavering patience and a cool head during very busy times
  • Be capable of working collaboratively with the kitchen team to showcase the highest quality of food and beverage offer
  • Have heaps on energy, amazing attention to detail, impeccable personal standards and be a great communicator
  • Be a born ‘people person’ (You just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).
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Casual Roles: Museum – All Museums

New!

You love, love love engaging with customers, sharing your expert knowledge and creating memorable experiences

  • Based: Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week. Please only apply for a Guest Experience role if you’re available to work 2-4 shifts per week during weekends and school holiday periods.
  • Category: Museum Roles
  • Location: Geelong, Nunawading, Sandringham, Thomastown
  • Position: Casual
  • Frequency: 2-4 shifts p/week
  • Length: 4-8 hours per shift
  • Salary: Museum Industry Award

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).
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Kitchen Hand / Cook – Sandringham, Thomastown & Nunawading

New!

Calling all passionate foodies, who love to prepare and present food to highest standards and who love getting things done.

  • Based: Sandringham, Thomastown or Nunawading
  • Category: Cafe Roles
  • Location: Nunawading, Sandringham, Thomastown
  • Position: Casual
  • Frequency: 2-4 shifts per week (including weekends)
  • Length: 4-8 hour shifts
  • Salary: Hospitality Industry Award

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 head 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
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Barista Extraordinaire – All Museums

New!

You love coffee, you love customer service, you love a clean and well-maintained working environment, and you’re ready to wow our guests at our established cafe in Sandringham in our brand new offering in Nunawading.

  • Based: Sandringham or Nunawading
  • Category: Cafe Roles
  • Location: Geelong, Nunawading, Sandringham, Thomastown
  • Position: Casual, Part-Time
  • Frequency: 2-4 shifts per week (including weekends)
  • Length: 4-8 hour shifts
  • Salary: Hospitality Industry Award

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.

MoPA is already famous for its 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.

Role description:

This role supports the cafe supervisor in delivering the very best guest experience. From opening 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.
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Casual Roles: Cafe – All Museums

New!

Casual positions are available in our Experience Team (working as an educator in the Museum itself) but also in our healthy cafe!

  • Based: In the Museum!
  • Category: Cafe Roles
  • Location: Geelong, Nunawading, Sandringham, Thomastown
  • Position: Casual
  • Frequency: 2-4 shifts p/week
  • Length: 4-8 hours per shift
  • Salary: Museum Industry Award

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.

Apply Now

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