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Position title

Curator of Education & Emerging Artist Programs

Reports to:
Executive Director

Classification:
Full-time, Exempt

Direct Report Personnel:
Assistant Curator of Education and Public Engagement, contract instructors, and visiting artists.

The Curator of Education & Emerging Artist Programs oversees Rochester Art Center’s visitor-centered approach to all art education programming, emerging artist initiatives, and public community engagement initiatives, including creating opportunities for all audiences to engage with contemporary art in meaningful and enjoyable ways. The Curator of Education & Emerging Artist Programs is primarily responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of all educational and emerging artists’ exhibitions, support, and projects.

Overall Responsibilities:

The Curator of Education & Emerging Artist Programs creates and manages a multidisciplinary education and curatorial program that nourishes the community’s sense of curiosity, adventure, and imagination. S/he will curate a program in which the museum environs function as a site for art, thought, respite, investigation, and experimentation. The appropriate candidate will have passion and compassion for the community that RAC serves. S/he will recognize the pretense and preconceptions that often come with understanding the value and role of contemporary art and will demonstrate an eagerness to develop new working modes and language that are respondent to artists, artistic practices, viewers, and our specific place and time.

Job Duties:

• Develop and implement a strategic plan for an education and public engagement program that reflects current global contemporary art practices and perspectives.
• Curate the RAC’s 3rd Floor Emerging Artists exhibition series and write original essays (4 annually).
• With Chief Curator and Preparator design and install exhibitions.
• In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop a common language and a strategy for discourse related to exhibitions to be shared with volunteers, interns, gallery attendants, and staff.
• With Chief Curator generate original content and provide context for exhibition related programs, family guides, newsletters, and marketing.
• Curate exhibitions and programs with various community groups: middle and high school, seniors, design and architecture groups, and others.
• Create exhibition narratives and tour outlines each season for both adults & children.
• Assist development department in targeting grants, identifying funding, and locating resources.
• Coordinate and assist with budgets, grant writing, and calendars with appropriate staff.
• With the Assistant Curator of Education & Public Engagement:
• Plan, produce, and document Free Family Days and other Educational events for the museum.
• Design activities that function with current exhibitions at the art center, current city-wide programs, and other pertinent arts-related events.
• Oversee Total Arts Day Camp, Rochester Art Center’s summer camp program, including hiring and training instructors, booking visiting artists, ordering supplies, and maintaining a balanced budget.
• Direct two afterschool teen programs.
• Form strategic alliances with teachers and administrators at area K-12 schools and strengthen relationships with faculty at local colleges through curriculum sharing or other joint projects.
• Create and implement a new docent program.
• Identify opportunities to partner with diverse community groups and under-served populations.

ROCHESTER ART CENTER VISION

To be a cultural center for innovation and creativity through contemporary art.

MISSION

Rochester Art Center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art.

Please send a letter of interest, resume, and the names of three references to jlovelace@rochesterartcenter.org.  No phone calls please.

Qualifications:

• Degree in art history, fine arts, museum education, museum studies, or related field. Master’s Degree preferable.
• Extensive knowledge of art history, studio art, art appreciation, and public engagement practices.
• Understanding of current museum teaching strategies, learning theory, and best practices.
• Curatorial interest and experience with emerging artists and exhibition installation process.
• Experience in museum or arts education developing and planning programs.
• Articulate verbal, writing, editorial skills, and public speaking experience.
• Entrepreneurial with the ability to develop innovative and accessible art programs related to exhibitions, contemporary discourse, and current events.
• Proven ability to work with diverse constituencies including schools, community agencies, health communities, social agencies, and cultural institutions.
• Background in fostering universal access for arts and cultural organizations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and aptitude to work with and inspire a team.
• Inventive problem solver with ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and establish and meet deadlines.
• Supervisory experience is desirable.
• Must be able to work a varied schedule including some evenings and weekends.

General Responsibilities:

The Director of Community Engagement is responsible for the creation, implementation, and management of the Menil Collection’s community engagement activities, which include public programs and education.  With the input and involvement of colleagues and community leaders, the Director of Community Engagement identifies and implements opportunities for involvement between the Menil and its surrounding communities and other constituencies without excluding its role in the larger, international context

Specific Duties:

1. Implement and manage the creation of new community-based programs, partnerships, and other engagement in initiatives.  Expand, through new initiatives, efforts that already exist.
2. Identify opportunities for engaging new target communities, evaluate strategic benefits, and determine resource allocation.
3. Collaborate with the Director of Public Programs to integrate audience and community engagement initiatives.
4. Implement ways to communicate with and receive feedback from the community about the Menil and its initiatives.
5. Attend community meetings on behalf of the Menil to hear community concerns, provide information about community engagement, and advocate for participation.
6. Attend non-Menil programs, events, and relevant festivals to better understand community interests and activities.
7. Identify prospects, and create target lists for contacts and outreach opportunities; develop an action plan and implement accordingly.
8. Manage community-engagement partner relationships, including list exchanges, co-branded programming, including, but not limited to, consulates, interest groups, churches, performing-arts groups, and other community nonprofits.
9. Create mechanisms for internal and external evaluation of engagement initiatives.
10. Distribute information to the community and broader publics through multiple channels.
11. Work with the Menil’s Membership, Development, and Communications Departments to strategize on methods and analyze results of audience research, visitor demographics, and the monitoring of the public’s perception and experience at the Menil.
12. Collaborate with Visitor Desk and Gallery Attendants to ensure the best front-line experience for visitors.
13. Collaborate with the Chief Advancement Officer in developing funding proposals in support of new outreach initiatives.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree and three or more years of community organizing or other related experience.
2. 3-5 years’ leadership experience in developing community programs.
3. Ability to interact with diverse audiences in terms of age, economic status, and cultural background.
4. Excellent planning and organizational skills.
5. Ability to work collaboratively with other museum staff and constituents.
6. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
7.  Familiarity with Houston Experience in online organizing/social media, online communication, and/or nonprofit web strategy.
8. Understanding of how to engage audiences and the general public with a welcoming, accessible approach.
9. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects with tight deadlines concurrently.
10. Exceptional strategy development, project management, and communication skills.
11. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
12. Excellent interpersonal skills.

Salary and benefits competitive and commensurate with experience.  Please send resume and cover letter to:  Director of Human Resources, the Menil Collection, 1511 Branard Street, Houston, Texas 77006.  Application materials may also be emailed to: smmaloch@menil.org.

Position Overview:  The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh seeks a dynamic, inspired leader as Director.  Slated to acquire publicly accessible exhibit and office space, the Director will guide the Center to reach out to both a Jewish and non-Jewish audience and become a regional destination for Holocaust Education and Research. The Director will oversee a professional staff of approximately 7 FTEs and, together with volunteer leadership, will develop the Holocaust Center into an institution with a strong visitor base and off-site formal and informal regional education and awareness programs.

Attributes and Education:  The candidate will have a high level of professionalism and integrity, advanced teambuilding talent with ability to engage a diverse community of volunteers and staff, strong analytical and budgetary skills.  Sensitivity to donor relations and the Jewish Community is a must.  The candidate must show passion for the organization with deep knowledge of, or willingness to learn about, the events of the Holocaust and its contemporary implications.  Master’s Degree and minimum of seven years of nonprofit experience required.

Organization Summary:  The current mission statement of the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh is “to transform community and individual attitudes and behaviors by recognizing, understanding and remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust and the consequences of hate.”  The 33 year-old Holocaust Center is an independent organization of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and has a budget of approximately $600,000.  With a record of running community-wide commemorative programs, the Center partners with other regional educational and cultural organizations for the purpose of delivering Holocaust Education and exploring the contemporary implications of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Center works in a region that encompasses much of Western PA, Eastern OH, and Northern WV.  It has a significant endowment and a diverse stream of earned and contributed revenue.

Responsibilities of the Holocaust Center Director include:

• Development of vision and long-range strategic plans, and s/he oversees the implementation of these plans.
• Principal ambassador of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh to the community and actively promotes Jewish Education.
• Sustains and creates partnerships and synergies between the Center, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and its partner agencies, area synagogues and schools, and relevant community organizations.
• Works with staff, volunteer leadership, the Federation, and the wider community to meet fundraising goals as established by the organization.
• Leads the Center with major donor relations and solicitations; supervises timely grant identification, application, and administration; cultivates other individual and institutional donors; expands organizational capacity for staffing and programming; implements consistent program and communication strategies.
• Responsible for the hiring of staff, providing updated job descriptions, annual performance reviews, and opportunities for professional development.
• Develops and monitors the annual budget in collaboration with the Federation.
• Evaluates current programs, assists in the development of new programs, and monitors and directs the work of program staff and volunteers.
• Oversee the marketing and public relations of Holocaust Center programs and services.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Skilled in organizational management, administration and staff development
• Knowledge of the Holocaust and sensitive to the population of stakeholders with a direct connection to those events
• Significant experience with development, fund raising and grant writing
• Working knowledge of communications, marketing and public relations
• Strong public speaking, writing, and community engagement skills
• Ability to conceive of, design and plan programs, including those designed to produce diverse revenue streams
• Strategic Planning and Board Development experience
• Knowledge of next generation ideas in technology and social media
• Ability to understand and analyze financial statements, data sets, and social indicators