Museum Studies Blog at Tufts University

What You’ll Do
You’ll research how popular for-profit companies attract a fiercely loyal customer base and how to promote that loyalty in a museum (non-profit) setting. You’ll provide insight and research into how Gen X and Gen Y spend their free time and allocate resources, what they want in cultural experiences, and how museums can have a positive impact on their life. Your recommendations will inform how the Museum can better serve current and future audience needs, growing in particular, a young professional audience.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Research membership offerings at other successful and inventive non-profits and business models of popular for-profit companies
• Engage with members and Museum visitors by shadowing frontline staff/Membership Assistant during regular business hours or at events
• Support member service operations and community initiatives, including administrative tasks and marketing communications
• Learn Raiser’s Edge and assist database-related projects

The Gardner Museum is committed to affording equal opportunities to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disabilities, marital status or sexual orientation. Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply. The Museum is proud to embrace the goals of Commonwealth Compact (http://www.umb.edu/commonwealth_compact/about) and pledges to measure its progress toward those goals over time, using the Commonwealth Compact benchmarks.

We receive many resumes and kindly request that you do not call to inquire about the status of your application. Those candidates chosen for interviews will be contacted.