Museum Director – The City of El Paso, Texas Salary Range: $88,883 to $153,769 + Outstanding Benefits Are you seeking an amazing career opportunity in the arts — a place where you can make a difference by engaging diverse audiences to visit an award-winning museum with a variety of high-quality collections?
The City of El Paso is seeking an experienced, strategic, collaborative, and innovative leader to serve as its next Museum Director.
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is a municipal museum with an encyclopedic permanent collection focused on art from Europe and the Americas.
Particular strengths include the Samuel H. Kress Collection of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, works from Viceroyal Spain and Mexico, American Impressionism, and contemporary art—particularly of Texas.
EPMA annually serves 100,000 visitors with year-round programming, including workshops, lectures, festivals, and camps and classes through its Museum School.
The Museum Director prepares and manages an annual operating budget of $1.2 million and leads a team of 17 full-time equivalent staff and an additional 2 grant-funded positions.
The successful candidate should have knowledge of best museum practices, including collections care, management, interpretation, and fundraising, be highly collaborative and proficient in creating and navigating successful programmatic and funding partnerships, and be passionate about attracting new audiences while engaging existing ones.
The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in museum studies, fine art, art history or related field, and six (6) years of museum exhibit development or design, or curatorial or museum education experience, including four (4) years of supervisory or managerial experience.
Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is preferred but not required.
The City of El Paso is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and values diversity at all levels of its workforce.
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