Job Description

The Anchorage Museum is for people, place, planet, and potential, in service of a sustainable and equitable North, and with creativity and imagination for what is possible. We strive to be a place of ideas and transformation, narratives and perspectives, resilient and relevant communities, and responsive to a rapidly changing world toward a better future for all. We welcome diversity and inclusion and recognize all are enriched through diverse voices, viewpoints, and skillsets. The Anchorage Museum is committed to creating an anti-racist, fully inclusive organization and is an equal opportunity employer.

Summary Position Statement

Under the general supervision of the CEO, the Director of Climate Initiatives and Programs is a creative and entrepreneurial leader with a track record of research, publications, and public engagement around the issues of climate change and sustainability, who will work towards trans-disciplinary and outward-facing initiatives, with access to a wide array of expertise and collections. The incumbent will develop a vital approach and platforms that support the Anchorage Museum as a thought leader on the scientific, cultural, artistic, and social issues related to the natural world, climate change, and sustainable communities, in collaboration with regional, global, and international partners. The incumbent will engage audiences of all ages. The Director of Climate Initiatives and programs will have a commitment to public discourse and co-creation with communities, culture bearers, scientists, artists, scholars, students, agencies, and experts. The incumbent will demonstrate a commitment to fact-based, public communication of environmental and ecological issues, recognizing the connections between the environment, social and economic sustainability, human health, and inequality

Essential Functions

• Connect museums exhibitions, collections, programs, site, facility, and other assets to narratives of the natural world and connect Museum programs and practices to local and global initiatives
• Work with a team of staff members to develop sound and attainable strategies relative to sustainable practices, facilities, as well as investigate leading green practices in the museum and arts/culture fields that can be applied to aspects of our and others’ work
• Assist with exhibition planning and implementation, including research, writing, editing, and communications
• Research the Museum collection and create programs and materials relevant to climate change issues
• Write, draft, and edit texts and content for social media and website
• Connect to the Museum’s work in sound ecology
• Develop robust public programming
• Support programs that imagine and prepare for the future
• Support artist residencies and convenings around scholarship and curatorial projects related to climate change, the environment/natural world, and sustainability
• Demonstrate an interest in and respect for interpreting and exhibiting museum collections, including traditional, digital, and living collections, cultural heritage, and contemporary voices and perspectives, and conduct research, involving academic research, community outreach, archival research, and consulting with culture bearers
• Internally, support the science team at the Museum and add capacity to education, curatorial, programs, marketing, development, and collections teams
• Externally, leverage museum resources to support the Anchorage Museum in its position of leadership on this issue building relationships with artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, donors, collectors, policy specialists, government agencies, and global experts
• Inspire and support a vision for a museum’s role in elucidating one of the most relevant issues of our day
• Prioritize relationship building
• Work in meaningful and sensitive ways with collections and community-owned and multicultural heritage, including heritage belonging to or originating in Indigenous communities
• Staff events and communicate and coordinate with other departments regarding relevant programming
• Work within budgets
• Assist with grant writing and reporting
• Serve as an advocate for the Museum and its work, internally and externally
• Work to guide and implement programs that engage, strengthen, and inspire the community
• Lead the Museum forward in a way that prioritizes community participation and inclusive, interactive programming

Non-Essential Functions

• Assist with hosting, coordinating, and touring research fellows, artists, volunteers, interns, and others
• Engage participants in the virtual world, including virtual programming, social media, and web content
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to set and carry out short-term goals while keeping long-term goals in mind
• Strong writing, editing, and project management skills
• Able to work independently and organize time efficiently to meet deadlines
• Initiative to undertake and complete tasks and projects as they arise
• Innovative, team-oriented, and highly motivated
• Able to work professionally and collaboratively with colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a team-oriented environment
• Able to handle multiple tasks and projects with changing priorities as required
• Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Maintain a positive attitude and convey a customer-service attitude internally and externally, being a role model for teamwork and the greater organizational good

Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred, in environmental studies, science, Indigenous studies, education, art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, museum studies, art history, history, or another related field, a combination of education and experience may be substituted
• Three years’ experience or demonstrated track record in research, education, programmatic, or other closely related position or an equivalent combination of education and experience, preferred

Employee Expectations

As a Museum employee, the incumbent is expected to model the following traits:

• Foster and maintain open communication and collaboration and actively engage in the exchange of ideas and maintain constructive relationships
• Initiative and creativity in all aspects of the position
• Lead by example by maintaining a high standard of professional ethics and conduct
• Treat everyone with dignity and respect
• Support and uphold the policies, procedures of the Museum

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 60,000 - 80,000.

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