Director of Curatorial Administration

Director of Curatorial Administration

Date : July 2025

Department : Curatorial

Title : Director of Curatorial Administration

FSLA Status : Exempt

Supervisor : Senior Deputy Director & Susan & Elihu Rose Chief

Curator

Schedule : Full-time

The Jewish Museum :

The Jewish Museum serves people of all religious, cultural, and ethnic

backgrounds through world-class exhibitions ranging from ancient to

contemporary. Founded in 1904 and located on New York City's Museum

Mile, the Jewish Museum aspires to be the global leader at the center of

Jewish culture.

The Museum maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art,

ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over

more than 4,000 years. The Museum's thought-provoking, innovative, and

intellectually stimulating exhibitions and education programs serve a wide

range of audiences, including families, children and teens, students,

educators, and visitors with disabilities. As an identity-based institution, the

Museum plays an important role among cultural institutions, challenging all

forms of bigotry and discrimination and promoting understanding among

wide audiences and especially in these challenging times. The Jewish

Museum invites applicants of all backgrounds to consider joining the

Museum in its work.

The Jewish Museum is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming

environment for all. Integrity, collegiality, and excellence are central to the

Museum's values. These values, along with an institution-wide commitment

to Diversity, Equity, Access & Inclusion (DEAI), are embedded in the

Museum's strategic plan.

The Position :

The Jewish Museum seeks a highly experienced museum professional,

strategic thinker, and diplomatic professional to oversee major

administration functions of the curatorial department with enhanced focus

on implementing strategies for a sustainable program of traveling exhibitions,

borrowed shows, and institutional partnerships.

Aligned with the re-opening of the Museum's transformed collection galleries,

this new position will report to the Senior Deputy Director & Chief Curator

and serve as a critical partner in developing models for streamlining systems,

creating efficiencies in exhibition production, and developing a financial

model for smaller, mid-sized and large temporary exhibitions. Specific

responsibilities include the implementation of an ambitious schedule of in-

house, traveling, and collection-based exhibitions; contracts and agreements

with artists, guest curators, designers, and institutional partners, among

others; and budgets for all related activity. In addition to serving as a primary

point person on details of the exhibition schedule and related logistics, the

Director of Curatorial Administration will oversee three departments -

collections, registration and program administration (i.e. exhibition

production) - guiding long-term objectives as well as near-term needs for

these areas.

A critical position and conduit of communication, the role requires excellent

verbal and written skills and an ability to liaise regularly with curators, senior

leadership, and external partners. Candidates who embrace collaboration,

enjoy executing complex projects, and are skilled managers who can

communicate easily with supervisors, peers and direct reports, will be fulfilled

in this job; this is an exceptional opportunity for talented administrators to

have a transformative effect on streamlining the inner workings of the

Museum's collections and exhibitions.

Responsibilities Include :

EXHIBITION PRODUCTION

• With the Chief Curator, lead the Museum's long-range exhibition planning

to create a well-balanced calendar that supports the Museum's vision and

institution-wide priorities.

logistics, including schedules, budgets, design, and installation; facilitate

communication to appropriate parties on major decisions and / or

developments as they arise.

meetings to track changes and troubleshoot on exhibition budgets over

three-year horizon, conferring regularly on income targets and

reprojections.

that accounts for detailed analysis of exhibition production (checklist,

design installation) as well as major deadlines for publications, graphics,

press and education.

and workflow for the exhibition schedule and related timelines, including

permanent collection galleries and rotations.

efficiency and timeliness.

PARTNERSHIPS

focused on new institutional partnerships; this includes touring Museum

exhibitions to outside venues and taking / tailoring borrowed shows to

internal site.

encyclopedic museums throughout the United States and receiving works

of related artifacts for display at the Jewish Museum.

contracts with external vendors, including guest curators, artists, and

designers.

including installations that may include loans or smaller borrowed shows

all major developments pertaining to external partnerships, both domestic

and international

SUPERVISION

mentor and invest in the professional development of direct reports.

exhibition design process, including graphics, lighting, AV and other

technical components, fabrication, construction and installation.

consideration of accessibility needs and best practices.

staff to enhance the Museum's interpretation, digital learning and

evaluation efforts.

particularly busy periods.

cross-departmental collaboration throughout the Museum, including

implementation of exhibition criteria worksheet.

Requirements :

museum

thinkers brought in to work with the Museum on specific projects and

initiatives.

institutional goals and guide staff on priorities.

interests to partners while understanding their objectives in pursuit

mutually beneficial outcome.

constraints.

process that serves competing needs and lots of moving parts.

of facilities and building infrastructure preferred.

Salary Range for Position : $140,000 - $150,000

Send Resume with Cover Letter To :

Director, Human Resources

The Jewish Museum

1109 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10128

Email : jobs@thejm.org

Fax : 212.423.3232

The Jewish Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to

building a culturally diverse staff and encourages applications from candidates of

all backgrounds.