ACM Employment Opportunities

Deputy Director

The Deputy Director is a full-time position responsible for program content, development, and association management. The position reports to the Executive Director.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Development and Partnership Building

• With the Executive Director, cultivates relationships with appropriate funders and other national and international partners.
  
• Develops annual and long-range development plans to support ACM's strategic goals.
  
• Researches funding sources and develops list of prospective funders to support core services (e.g. InterActivity conference) and special initiatives.
  
• Writes proposals that make the case for support.
  
• Manages funder-related components of programs/special projects as appropriate, such as the Promising Practice Award and Asian Exhibit Initiative (production of proposals and reports to funder, donor recognition, etc.).
  
• Solicits, arranges, and attends as appropriate, meetings with potential funding partners and represents ACM in a variety of forums.
  
• Works with senior staff to cultivate partnerships with other national and international organizations.
  
• Develops and administers appropriate opportunities for funder recognition. Ensures appropriate funder recognition in ACM's annual report, newsletter and at conference general sessions.

InterActivity Conference and Other Education Programs

• Supervises and advises the Program Officer, Education in all programmatic and logistical aspects of planning the conference and other education programs.
  
• With Program Officer, Education, develops plan for ACM's professional development initiatives including pre/post conferences, regional workshops, institutes, etc., and reviews new opportunities with the ACM Board Programs Committee.
  
• Oversees and participates in the activities of the Program and Advisory Committees including development of conference content and format, identification of speakers/workshop leaders, etc.
  
• Supervises the Program Officer, Education in role as liaison to Advisory Committee and ACM Board to ensure that programmatic objectives align with ACM's strategic framework.
  
• Solicits involvement of high-level speakers as keynotes and salon participants and manages key relationships with such speakers throughout the year.
  
• Conceptualizes techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of programs (i.e. "outcome-based evaluation") that are consistent with funders' needs.
  
• With the Program Officer, Education, develops and tracks the conference budget.
  
• With Program Officer, Education, negotiates contracts including hotel, AV vendor, busing, trade show, etc.

Sponsorship and Affinity Partnership Building

• Solicits and negotiates new corporate marketing opportunities for the Association and its members including the development of corporate sponsorship or grant proposals.
  
• Solicits and negotiates affinity partnerships that benefit members and provide a royalty to ACM.
  
• With Program Officer, Communication, develops new, marketing-based earned income sources for ACM.

Member Services

• Supervises and advises the Program Officer, Membership.
  
• Tracks trends in the field with Executive Director and Program Officer, Membership.
  
• Provides technical assistance to the field.
  
• Works as a team with the staff to research, develop, implement, and fund new programs and initiatives designed to assist members in becoming the town centers for children and families.
  
• Directs ACM's policy agenda in cooperation with AAM and the Museum Working Group. Reviews and recommends positions on pending legislation that will impact ACM's members and the children and families served by ACM's members. Serves as an advocate for children's museums and ACM.

Communication

• Supervises and advises the Program Officer, Communication.
  
• Oversees design of ACM Web site including member section and online research repository.
  
• With Program Officer, Communication, develops new, marketing-based earned income sources for ACM.

Association Management

• Serves as part of a three person leadership team for ACM along with the Executive Director and Director of Finance & Administration.
  
• Takes on additional responsibilities and shares workload with the Executive Director.
  
• Hires, supervises and evaluates the work of the Program Officer Team (Education, Membership, Communication).
  
• Serves as staff liaison to Board of Directors committees as assigned.
  
• Assists Executive Director with governance-related activities such as Board meetings, calls, preparation of minutes, etc.
  
• Assists on the ACM Annual Report and other documents by contributing updates as assigned.

Qualifications

• Five to fifteen years of program development, fundraising experience, and management in a nonprofit or similar organization.
  
• Knowledge of issues facing associations, arts and culture organizations, and/or children's museums.
• Bachelor's Degree required, Master's Degree in a related field strongly preferred. Degree(s) should be in nonprofit administration, business administration, law or related field.
  
• Excellent writing, editing and communication skills are required. Position also requires strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy, sound judgment, and the ability to listen to and synthesize information.
  
• Conference management experience including experience writing, reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• Strong teamwork ethic required.
  
• This is a demanding position. Ability to work under pressure and time constraints as well as handle a number of tasks simultaneously required.
  
• Enthusiastic, upbeat personality with a true commitment to the work of ACM and children's museums.
  

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Intern for Conference Registration & Member Services

The Association of Children's Museums (ACM) seeks an intern to provide administrative support to the conference planning and member services staff. Ideal candidate will be an undergraduate or graduate student seeking exposure to museum and association operations. Candidate should be organized, efficient and detail oriented.

Internship runs February 1, 2010 through April 30, 2010. Part time hours: 8-20 hours per week. Work day schedule is flexible, although Fridays are preferred. This is an unpaid internship.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following.

Conference Registration Support

• Processing conference registrations using member database software
• Making changes to existing registrations
• Producing invoices, receipts and confirmation letters for conference registrations

Membership Support

• Processing member renewal payments
• Producing member renewal confirmations
• Preparing new member welcome packets
• Preparing ACM's quarterly journal and newsletter for mailing to nonmember and international subscribers
• Using Web design (Dreamweaver) software to update exhibit and employment ads on ACM's online Classifieds
• Preparing publication orders for mailing to members and nonmembers
• Assisting in digitizing membership records for ACM's archival history

Qualifications

• Prior administrative experience
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to multitask
• Expertise in multiple software applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Web-based applications,
  and a confidence in ability to learn and utilize membership database software
• Strong teamwork ethic required

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