Volunteer

Help produce monthly webinars and develop written resources to support IMPs in running their business and growing as museum practitioners. We offer flexible volunteer opportunities that fit your schedule and passions. 

Live Virtual Program Roles

Presentation Facilitator: Be the friendly face of our webinars! 

• Work with presenters to shape engaging sessions

• Welcome participants and introduce speakers

• Guide Q&A discussions

• Help coordinate additional volunteers

Zoom Room Monitor: Keep our virtual events running smoothly:

• Manage participant access

• Set up breakout rooms and launch polls

• Handle other technical details and troubleshooting (training provided!)

Chat Monitor: Help keep our online conversations vibrant:

• Track and manage chat interactions

• Share prepared resources and links

• Support facilitators by managing questions

Content and Resource Roles

Multimedia Support: Turn great content into shareable knowledge!

• Video Editor: Create compelling short clips from webinars

• Transcript Editor: Polish machine-generated transcripts

Knowledge Management: Develop and organize professional learning resources:

• Resource Researcher: Dive deep into specific topics and summarize key insights

• Resource Librarian: Develop organizational approach and templates for future resources 

• Content Repurposer: Transform webinar content into shareable highlights

Special Projects (2025)

Looking for a specific, time-limited commitment? We have exciting one-off projects:

• Program Evaluation Redesign, Data Analysis, and Reporting: Improve how we evaluate our programming

Have other ideas? Join and let us know!

Here are a few ways you could help us develop messaging strategy, regularly communicate with membership, and promote IMP resources and programs:

• Update our calendar.

• Write/edit copy for quarterly newsletter and other communications.

• Create graphics for newsletters, social media posts, and program promotion.

• Update and maintain website.

• Monitor email and respond or redirect inquiries.

• Update and maintain the MailChimp account and subscriber list

• Maintain social media accounts on Instagram/X/LinkedIn, promote IMP programs, make regular topical posts/reposts

• Promote IMP programs on listservs (Museum Junction, IMP Intersections, Museum L)

• Coordinate with other IMP Teams on overlapping activities and priorities.

Please join us!

The IMP Connections group creates and identifies opportunities to help IMPs:

Connect 

• In person, online, and at conferences 

• Foster a sense of community and belonging 

Network

• Develop “IMPs Connect”, or new virtual meetup/roundtable series

• Find and leverage each other’s talents and expertise

• Keep abreast of each other’s contributions to advancing the field

• Coordinate with other PNs and affinity groups

Support

• Manage and Moderate the listserv in coordination with the Communications Team

• Mentor and support one another (peer-to-peer or senior-junior)Mentor and support one another (peer-to-peer or senior-junior)

• Create structures to support IMP needs

Promote DEAI

• Actively work to promote and support BIPOC IMP

• Develop an understanding of the various cultural backgrounds, perspectives, and needs of team members.

The Business Group will, in coordination with the Membership Group, evaluate options for fiscal sponsorship or forming a legal entity, outline financial and operational needs, and provide recommendations on governance, bylaws, and succession planning.

Key tasks include:

• Investigate opportunities for fiscal sponsorship

  • Develop a list of potential fiscal sponsors (with input from SC)

  • Draft and distribute inquiry letter

• Simultaneously recommend what kind of legal entity we should become and the steps to get there (if no fiscal sponsor)

• Explore our financial needs: entity prep, insurance, website costs etc, the possibility of paying someone a certain number of hours per month to handle admin, the miscellaneous expenses being covered by our members (business cards, stickers etc), and potentially one day being able to pay to host events and bring in speakers

• Offer recommendations related to operations, bylaws, and succession

The Membership Group will, in coordination with the Business Group, will develop a proposed membership structure with funding options, and recommend a platform that meets our needs for member management, a directory, discussion boards, gated content, and fee collection.

Tasks include

• Propose a Membership Structure and how to fund it via a fiscal sponsor, or an offering of founding members

• Research Membership platforms to determine what suits our needs. Priorities thus far are:

  • Member management

  • Member Directory

  • More sophisticated discussion boards

  • Gated content

  • Potential collection of fees for programs

We are looking for a Volunteer Manager who can help match potential volunteers to the work that needs to be done.