Touring Exhibitions Project Manager

About the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.

Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world.

At The Met, every staff member – from security officers to researchers to scientists and beyond – lives by our core values of respect, inclusivity, collaboration, excellence, and integrity. 

Respect: Engage one another with collegiality, empathy, and kindness, always.

Inclusivity: Ensure that all are and feel welcome and valued.

Collaboration: Reach across boundaries to exchange ideas and work together toward our shared mission.

Excellence: Lead the cultural world in quality and expertise—and inspire curiosity and creativity.

Integrity: Hold ourselves to the highest moral standards, admit when we fall short, and then evolve. 

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITES & DUTIES:

As the Touring Exhibitions Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of The Met’s consistently high-quality touring exhibition program, developing and touring exhibitions to domestic and international venues. The Met’s touring exhibition program is an important part of the international initiatives program; these highly anticipated projects with international partners and venues allow us to directly engage global audiences with both our collection and our scholarship. You will partner with the stakeholders across the museum to develop and manage desirable and feasible touring projects, identify venues, place projects, and coordinate all aspects of the touring program internally and externally. You will manage all correspondence, serve as the key liaison between venues and Met staff, and manages the department’s venue and project databases, as well as all project budgets. The Touring Exhibitions Project Manager may also serve as Project Manager for select Met exhibitions presented at The Met prior to touring.

Please submit a cover letter and resume with your application.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILIES & DUTIES:

• Works closely with key stakeholders to develop touring exhibitions, identify venues that meet The Met’s strategic goals, create project plans and oversee budgets.

• Manages relationships with confirmed and potential venues; represents the Museum nationally and internationally to promote exhibitions, cultivate new proposals and venues, and maintain contact with venues.

• Manages complex logistics of multiple simultaneous touring exhibition projects, including management of the master touring exhibition schedule and coordination with the master Met exhibition schedule; applies expert knowledge of exhibition coordination and project management to planning and execution of concurrent projects.

• Schedules and leads project development and planning meetings for all touring exhibition projects as necessary; communicates progress and next steps clearly and effectively. Manages budgets and deliverable deadlines working with appropriate staff, and invoices partners.

• Works with The Met’s Counsel’s Office and the Exhibition Project Manager, Administration to draft and negotiate all contracts for touring exhibitions with venues and any project-based temporary staff.

• Facilitates contact with Publications and Retail to maximize revenue opportunities from traveling exhibitions.

• Works with The Met’s Marketing and Communications teams to support promotional and press opportunities for traveling exhibitions.

• Monitors work of outside consultants and vendors as necessary.

• Utilizes expertise in project management and analysis to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality, maintain consistency with Exhibitions Department protocols and processes under the leadership of the Senior Manager of Exhibitions

• Serves as courier and primary Met touring exhibitions program representative at exhibition venues as needed.

• Manages all aspects of in-house presentations of select touring exhibitions prior to tour

• Assembles, manages and analyzes touring exhibition budgets and touring exhibition revenue projections.

• Supports other international projects as assigned.