Studio and Community Programs Assistant Manager

Description

Department: Education

Reports to: Director of Public Programs

Classification:  Exempt, full-time with benefits*

Salary range:  $50,000-$55,000 depending on experience

This is an onsite, Boston-based position. Local candidates strongly preferred. No agencies, please.

* Note that the regular schedule requires working Saturdays, select Thursday evenings, and some holidays (currently, the Gardner’s community free days, which include Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Juneteenth, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day).

Important: Only applications that include a cover letter, résumé, and a demonstration of past program experience will be considered for this position.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Core Values

Isabella Stewart Gardner believed that art had the power to change lives and she built a beautiful, personal, and immersive Museum setting to do so. Today the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) is a living embodiment of her bold vision; it’s a dynamic place where ideas and creativity in all its forms inspire visitors. Through exhibitions, music, programs, and performances we strive to tell new stories and challenge assumptions by engaging diverse voices and community members.

Our Core Values are:

• Creativity is our Legacy
• Community is our Purpose
• The Collection is our Catalyst
• Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion are our Commitments

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum seeks to connect past with present, develop and sustain mutually beneficial partnerships with our local communities and artists, expand and diversify our audiences, and generate opportunities for creativity. We are firmly committed to creating both an inclusive work culture and a welcoming visitor experience. Our five-year Strategic Plan outlines the Museum’s core values, goals, and initiatives that serve as a renewal of Isabella’s promise for the Museum to be a place for “the education and enjoyment of the public forever.”

Position Summary

The Studio and Community Programs Assistant Manager is responsible for developing, executing, and facilitating dynamic and inclusive programming, drop-in art-making opportunities, and experiential activities that inspire visitors to explore creative experimentation, spark generative looking and thinking about art, education, landscape and music, and help visitors make their own connections to art found in the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions. This includes gallery programs, free days, select evenings, and drop-in art-making, designed to increase participation and engagement of key communities in Gardner programming, as well as coordinating other special programs and initiatives in collaboration with the Director of Public Programs.

The Studio and Community Programs Assistant Manager contributes to a culture of collaboration, community, and respect while embodying the principles of the Gardner’s Strategic Plan and centers the work of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in all areas of their work. This role works collaboratively with Education team colleagues and cross departmentally to realize the Museum’s audience development goals.

Essential Functions and Primary Responsibilities

• Focusing on the needs and interests of local, diverse audiences, collaborates with local teaching artists and members of the Education team on planning and implementing a range of dynamic art-making and experiential activities and programs for Saturday Open Studios, Free First Thursdays, Access Studio, the Neighborhood Salon Luminaries program, art and wellness programs, additional studio-related programming, and accessibility initiatives. 
• Works with visiting artists on projects that align their projects with the institutional Strategic Plan, audience development goals, as well as the Education and Public Programs vision. 
• Manages communication and co-creation of programming with visiting artists, welcoming and helping visiting artists, and overseeing general maintenance of the Studio, set ups, and inventory, and supporting an inclusive visitor experience for multigenerational audiences.
• Develops year-long schedule of engaging hands-on, art-making projects for general visitors of all ages for Saturday Open Studios and Free First Thursdays programming, and additional studio programs and initiatives, including an art and wellness project, and other special projects as needed. Collaborates with the Marketing department on audience development and