Curator Of Education

Description:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

TYPICAL DUTIES
 

• Develops strategic plans, annual business plans, and budgets for the education division; establishes priorities for meeting long-range and short-term goals; determines budgetary requirements to reduce cost of services; and monitors progress towards strategic and annual goals.
• Provides strong leadership; serves as the organization’s expert on formal and informal education; reviews, develops, and improves the Museum’s education offerings; fosters the perception of the Crocker Art Museum as an innovative educational organization and a national leader in gallery-based education.
• Supervises, assigns, directs, and reviews the work of subordinate staff.
• Directs the enhancement and expansion of electronic/new media and evaluation of educational programs.
• Promotes positive and cooperative collaborations among the Museum staff to achieve desired results for product and program development; and builds strong working relationships with senior management team.
• Maintains a high level of expertise in museum operations and trends.
• Participates in fundraising initiatives that increase education support, user access, and product and program delivery.
• Acts as a public spokesperson for the institution on education matters; and serves on institutional committees and teams as appropriate.
• Develops, directs, and maintains a variety of internal and external relationships, programmatic collaborations, and partnerships with local, regional and national groups and organizations to insure fulfillment of educational strategies.
• Provides exceptional customer services to those contacted in the course of work.
• Collaborates with marketing and other staff to communicate and develop the Museum’s education identity; identifies and cultivates new audience opportunities; develops new programs; and works to improve the visitor experience.
• Other duties may be performed as required; not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual holding this classification.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of:
 

• Principles and practices of museum operations.
• Principles and practices of curriculum design and development
• Principles of personnel administration, current office management and supervisory methods and practices.
• Principles and practices of gallery-based art education.
• Theories, history, and practice of museum education.