EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – Sudbury Historical Society

The Sudbury Historical Society, located in Sudbury Massachusetts, intends to hire an Executive Director and invites interested and qualified candidates to apply. The position is full time, and with no benefits.

The Society has embarked on an ambitious initiative to create a History Center/Museum for the benefit of the Town. In support the Town has offered one of its oldest buildings, built in 1730, as the core of the History Center. The initiative envisions rehabbing this historic building and adding a timber-framed barn to serve as an event space with the original building serving as exhibit space for the Society’s extensive collection. A major role of the Executive Director will be to manage this undertaking while supervising the administration of the Society which has operated for many years with part-time volunteers. This is a pivotal time for the Society and we are looking for an individual who will share with us this vision and commit to making it a reality.

We anticipate that the successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree in a subject area relevant to the management of a public facility such as a museum. Ideally the candidate will have had postgraduate study more specific to museums and their technology. However an overarching consideration will be the ability of the candidate to demonstrate an understanding of the issues, challenges and complexities of this undertaking and to project his/her potential contributions. The ongoing operations of the Society will be maintained and the candidate will need to demonstrate an understanding of issues in managing daily operations while working towards the establishment of a History Center/Museum. Financing and fundraising underlies these activities and the candidate will need to have an understanding of these elements and ideally solid experience.

To apply please email your resume and cover letter to personnel@sudbury01776.org. Any questions may also be sent to this address. There is access to the full Job Description at

http://sudbury01776.org/jobs.html which is also the Society’s website. Applications will be

accepted until January 30, 2015. All submissions will be acknowledged with further details on the decision timeline.