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Fiscal Associate

The Finance team at Queens Botanical Garden is looking for a motivated individual who is flexible, eager to learn, detail oriented and willing to work independently. Working closely with all department heads, the Fiscal Associate plays a key role in the smooth operation of the day to day finance functions of the Garden.

Event Partnerships Manager

The Event Partnerships Manager (EPM) oversees existing and potential short-term business relationships and contracts that support the mission and financial goals of the organization. This position supports the management of fundraising and ticketed events as required. The EPM actively cultivates clients and identifies opportunities for programmatic rental and/or partnership events, commercial film and photo shoots, festivals, conferences and all manners of short-term earned income activity which maximize revenue, attract new audiences and/or advance our values including DEIA goals.

The ideal candidate understands activation to be central to effective asset management and preservation.

Education Manager

The Education Manager (EM) is an enthusiastic, polished, detail-oriented professional playing a crucial role on the Community Impact team. Community Impact team (CI team) provides access to an open-site, offers not-to-be-missed, transformative experiences, and maintains reliable, consistent service. The highest priority is ensuring a positive visitor experience for diverse audiences. Education provides programming to students, seniors, tourists, and any group that services curious minds. While acting as a liaison with patrons, programming and security staff, the position is responsible for programs, staff scheduling and site-wide activations. The EM plays a crucial role in developing the learning agendas for staff and patrons, supervising the education team, maintaining and increasing professionalism and providing operational support. The EM is responsible for purchasing, payments, and invoice reconciliations for programs. The position also works with the Service Learning Coordinator to expand Snug Harbor’s volunteer program with a goal of increasing organizational capacity, developing skill sets and expertise throughout the community, and improving patron experience. The Education Manager reports to the Senior Director, Community Impact (SDCI).

Community Impact Coordinator

The Community Impact Coordinator (CIC) is an enthusiastic, polished, detail-oriented professional playing a crucial role on the Community Impact team. The Community Impact team (CI team) provides access to an open site, offers not-to-be-missed, transformative experiences, and maintains reliable, consistent service across all public-facing reception. The CIC supports the Senior Director, Community Impact (SDCI), and the CI team in many capacities. The highest priority is on ensuring a positive visitor experience for diverse audiences. The CIC works with a broad variety of clients to coordinate reliable, consistent service across all educational programming for students, seniors, tourists, and any group that services curious minds. The CIC manages the team calendar and designated administrative duties with discretion and precision, collaborating regularly with other departments. The CIC safeguards and improves the patron experience by maintaining and increasing professionalism and providing the professionalism of the Education staff, providing operational support. The Community Impact Coordinator reports to the Senior Director, Community Impact (SDCI).

Development Assistant

The Assistant will be responsible for maintaining the Salesforce donor database, processing acknowledgment letters, gifts, and memberships, conducting prospect research, and supporting special events. The Development Assistant reports to the Individual Giving and Events Manager and works closely with all members of the Development team.

Post Doctoral Fellow in Informal STEM Learning

This position is an opportunity for new and recent PhD or EdD recipients to learn about museum practice, gain experience cultivating research partnerships with educators, designers, youth, and community members, and broaden their understanding of how high-quality informal STEM learning experiences can be designed, developed and implemented to serve diverse audiences. NYSCI created this postdoctoral fellowship program to work toward the vision described by Dr. Alonda Nelson, the Deputy Director for Science and Society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who asserted that researchers “often want to use their skills to serve their communities, to serve as bridges between experts and community members in collaborative research, using everything they know about both science and their own communities to learn and discover together” (OSTP, 2022). This fellowship will support postdoctoral researchers in building, sustaining, and learning from productive, mutually beneficial partnerships with practitioners in informal STEM learning environments and the intersectionally diverse publics they serve. Postdoctoral Fellows will work with individuals with a wide range of perspectives and areas of expertise to conceptualize, define, and pursue research agendas focused on equitable approaches to informal STEM learning. The position requires curiosity, an interest in applied and collaborative research methods, and strong organizational, listening and writing skills.

Senior Director of Finance

Reporting to the General Counsel and COO, the Senior Director of Finance is the principal financial steward of the long-term fiscal health and viability of the Museum. As the principal financial officer of the Museum, the Senior Director of Finance has primary responsibility to provide strategic financial guidance and planning, treasury and investment management, and financial reporting and analytics to the Museum’s leadership and staff, to oversee the development of the annual operating budget and monitor actual results against the budget, and to manage the Museum’s investment, banking and institutional financing relationships. The Senior Director of Finance also supervises and supports the work of the museum’s controller in overseeing daily, monthly, and annual accounting processes.

Lead Building Engineer

Reporting to the Director of Building Operations and Safety, the Lead Building Engineer must be a proficient HVAC specialist responsible for overseeing MEP mechanical trades within the building's systems. The Lead Building Engineer will apply preventative maintenance practices and diligently address daily work orders from various museum departments. This role also entails managing and monitoring O+M budget expenditures, taking into account the typical budget constraints associated with a not-for-profit institution.

Membership Manager

The Manager of Membership is a critical team member who will be charged with developing a robust, mission-aligned membership program. The Manager is responsible for raising approximately $500,000 in annual revenue through renewal and acquisition of over 3,000 members. NYSCI is pioneering innovative approaches to STEM learning and engagement, and developing new and refreshed exhibits and experiences that create an exciting environment for membership growth. The manager will translate these exciting opportunities to current and future audiences in order to enhance and communicate the value of membership. They will collaborate with colleagues on NYSCI’s fundraising, marketing, and public programs teams to initiate creative approaches to expand our reach, including digital marketing campaigns, online solicitation, onsite sales, and member events.

Research and Development Manager

NYSCI is seeking a Research Manager to support the cross-departmental collaborations involved in NYSCI’s innovative research and development work. The Research Manager will work closely with the Director of Creative Pedagogy to plan, coordinate, and document the development, design, testing, and implementation of new NYSCI educational assets focused on engaging diverse public audiences with emergent, high-interest topics in science and engineering. This role will include a strong focus on designing for cultural responsiveness and inclusiveness for NYSCI’s highly diverse audiences. The Research Manager will work with a variety of NYSCI staff across departments to coordinate the development of products including engineering activities, Maker Space workshops, career exploration events, public programming, and school curriculum.

Associate Director of Membership and Annual Giving

Reporting to the Director of Development, the Associate Director of Membership and Annual Giving will help envision and execute all membership and annual giving efforts for gifts under $10,000. Through targeted direct marketing campaigns via analog and digital channels that include direct mail, email, website, and advertising, the Associate Director will establish strategic objectives and implement short-and long-terms tactics that leverage the Studio Museum’s brand and mission. The selected candidate will effectively grow awareness of the Studio Museum’s annual giving program, develop and implement a bespoke membership program, and increase our portfolio of donors as we enter the exciting next phase in the institution’s history.

Associate Development Officer, Individual Giving—Development

The Associate Development Officer is a skillful, detail-oriented, frontline fundraiser. Through the Museum’s Membership program and patron groups, the Associate Development Officer (ADO) personally identifies, engages, cultivates, solicits, and stewards a portfolio of individuals to support the mission of the Brooklyn Museum. Reporting to the Development Officer, Individual Giving, the ADO will support the Individual Giving and Major Gifts team in all fundraising needs, with a special focus on the Museum’s six patron groups. We seek a forward-thinking professional who is passionate about the Museum and dedicated to developing ways to better serve our Membership programs and communities.

Research Assistant for Textiles—Art

The Brooklyn Museum seeks a focused and detail-oriented Research Assistant for Textiles for a full-time two-year position to undertake cataloging, research, and reporting related to the Museum’s European and American textile collections. The candidate will work closely with the curators of Decorative Arts and Design to identify collection objects suitable for retention, display, and deaccession; write reports; prepare presentations; and conduct historical and art historical research. The Research Assistant will also aid in compiling possible institutions and auction houses for transfer of deaccessioned works.

A successful candidate must be detail-oriented and a creative thinker, with the ability to multitask. They should have excellent written and verbal communication skills, a demonstrated ability to be well organized, and superlative research skills. The candidate should have extensive coursework in textiles, knowledge of the history of textiles (especially eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and American textiles), and experience handling textiles.

Since this position is research based, we expect the candidate to be able to conduct research independently and have knowledge of existing scholarly resources. Only applications that include a cover letter will be considered.

Director of Development Operations

The Director of Development Operations is a vital team leader and strategist, an expert in designing and managing systems, and a key member of the Development team who instills best practices in the science of fundraising. They are involved in a wide range of tasks, from daily activities to special long- and short-term projects that advance the functioning of a strong, effective Development department.

The Director of Development Operations liaises with the Finance department and monitors all systems to support Development’s donor management, analytical, and financial tracking functions. This position offers a unique opportunity to help lead the Museum’s strategic direction and shape our fundraising goals through harnessing data and other strategic insights. A core mandate for the Director of Development Operations is to centralize a suite of activity that is currently spread across the Development team and other key departments (acknowledgment letters, gift entries, reports, and data pulls, e.g.).

Success in this role will require an entrepreneurial spirit and eagerness to build on the existing foundation of the department to shape new approaches as the Brooklyn Museum migrates to its first CRM (Tessitura).

Museum Maintainer / Art Handler, Collections (Temporary)

The Museum Maintainer / Art Handler for Collections will be part of a team in the Registration and Collections Management department, handling art in the collections and assisting with storage initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience handling and installing a variety of objects. They will work closely with the Registration and Collections Management and Conservation teams in supporting the Museum’s collection-related activities.

This position is funded for a term of three years (subject to renewal).

Science Programs Assistant

The Science Programs Assistant is responsible for the development and implementation of onsite and offsite educational programs for students, families and teachers including group workshops, outreaches, after school programs and other education programs as assigned. This individual will collaborate regularly with a team of Science Instructors and Science Program Assistant(s) to create and deliver innovative programs and maintain the standards and quality of lessons delivered to our various audiences.

Manager of Family Learning and Community Partnerships

The Manager of Family Learning and Community Partnerships executes the development, implementation and growth of NYSCI’s community engagement programs and partnerships in collaboration with multiple NYSCI departments and community stakeholders to create an interconnected suite of STEM learning opportunities and positions NYSCI as a welcoming and trusted educational partner with our community.

Omnichannel Retail Manager

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Omnichannel Retail Manager to join our team at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). As the Omnichannel Retail Manager, you will be responsible for procuring unique, ownable products, leading the expansion of our brick-and-mortar shop to an online platform, and re-imagining the cafe dining experience. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing the overall visitor experience and driving revenue growth through innovative retail strategies. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in retail management, a passion for customer service, and a creative mindset.