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ACM Employment Opportunities
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The Association of Children's Museums (ACM) is a professional
service organization with over 400 members in the United
States and around the world.
Founded in 1962, ACM strives to build the capacity
of Children's Museums to serve as town squares for children
and families where play inspires creativity and lifelong
learning.
The vision of ACM is to be recognized as a global leader,
advocate and resource among organizations serving the
learning needs of children and families. Membership
is primarily children's museums, but includes traditional
museums with family audience programs, individuals and
corporations.
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To Apply: Please submit
a complete application including cover letter, resume
and salary history via email, mail or fax.
Email: jobs@childrensmuseums.org
(indicate position title in subject line)
Mail: Association of
Children's Museums
2711 Jefferson Davis Highway
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22202
Fax: 703.224.3099 |
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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