Exhibitions Program Manager | New Jersey State Archives
Role summary
The New Jersey State Archives seeks an Exhibitions Program Manager to oversee its exhibitions program and related functions. This role involves assisting with budgeting, identifying funding sources like grants, and performing administrative duties. The manager will plan, supervise, and evaluate subordinate staff, collaborating with internal units, external organizations, and contractors to develop exhibitions and programming. Key responsibilities include recommending exhibition content, operations, and policies, conducting research, selecting artifacts, ensuring artifact preservation, developing educational materials and public programs, and managing project timelines and resources. The position requires strong archival research skills and the ability to maintain cooperative working relationships with various stakeholders.
225 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625
United States
Salary: $45 - $58/hour, commensurate with experience. This equates to $81,900 - $100,100 annually (fulltime)
Under the direction of the Executive Director and/or Bureau Chief and/or a Supervising Archivist, oversees New Jersey State Archives' exhibitions program and related functions; assists with budgeting, identifying funding sources (e.g. grants), and administrative duties relating to exhibitions; plans, supervises and evaluates the work of subordinate employees; collaborates with the other units of the State Archives, external organizations, and contractor s to develop exhibitions and related programming; recommends exhibition content, operations, strategies, and exhibitions-related policy to management; other duties as required.
Examples of work:
. Supervises the day-to-day operations of the State Archives' Exhibitions Program.
. Plans exhibition schedule (long-term, changing and/or virtual) for the State Archives.
. Organizes, develops and/or supervises the development of exhibitions featuring (primarily) materials from the collections of New Jersey State Archives. This includes, but is not limited to, research, outline and script, project timelines, object checklists, loan negotiation, insurance, design decisions, and oversight of fabrication and installation.
. Conducts exhibit-related research and selects artifacts for exhibition in consultation with exhibition planning team and appropriate Archives staff.
. Collaborates with, and supervises staff, consultants/contractors/vendors, interns a nd volunteers as needed, as relates to all aspects of long-term and changing exhibits; ensures that consultants/contractors/vendors meet requirements of work orders/contracts.
. In consultation with appropriate Archives staff and any contracted conservators, recommends installation methods to ensure maximum protection and preservation of artifacts on view.
. Analyzes the scope of projects to be completed; determines the type, quality, and quantity of materials and supplies to complete steps in agreed-to time frames.
. Works with Archives staff, staff of other state agencies, and non-governmental organizations, as needed, to: address loan requirements and determine methods of artifact exhibition; and oversee the preparation of loan agreements and insurance documents for borrowed objects.
. In collaboration with exhibition project team, develops and/or edits didactic, informational, interpretive texts and materials; plans and implements high- and low-tech educati onal interactives when appropriate, for visitors of all ages; develops, schedules, and executes public programming relating to exhibits.
. Drafts and/or assists in the development of exhibit guides, educational hand-outs, catalogs and/or promotional materials, and/or works with curators, Archives staff, designers, and others, in the development of same.
. Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships within the other State Archives' functional units, with other state agencies (primarily cultural agencies), and non-governmental New-Jersey-history and material-culture-related organizations.
. Prepares budgets, supply/equipment orders, correspondence, timelines and reports related to the duties described herein; maintains paper and electronic files and file directories accordingly, in a logical, organized, and accurate manner on an ongoing basis.
. Is or becomes proficient in the use of guides, indexes, databases, and other resources for research in the State Archives' and other historical and material culture collections.
. Interacts with historians, collectors, genealogists, reenactors, curators, archivists, interns, volunteers, and others as appropriate in relation to the duties described herein.
. Recommends potential acquisitions to support the exhibition program in accordance with the State Archives' collecting policy.
. Advises Archives leadership on procedures, especially as relate to the operations of the Exhibits Program and its ability to collaborate with the Archives' other functional units and external organizations.
## How to apply:
Applicants should contact with a resume and cover letter:
Joseph R. Klett, Executive Director
New Jersey State Archives
Email: joseph.klett@sos.nj.gov
## Contact:
Joseph R. Klett
joseph.klett@sos.nj.gov
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