Director of Curatorial Administration

Director of Curatorial Administration

Date: July 2025
Department: Curatorial
FSLA Status: Exempt
Supervisor: Senior Deputy Director & Chief Curator
Schedule: Full-time

The Jewish Museum serves people of all religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds through world‑class exhibitions ranging from ancient to contemporary. Founded in 1904 and located on New York City's Museum Mile, the Jewish Museum aspires to be the global leader at the center of Jewish culture. The Museum maintains a unique collection of nearly 30,000 works of art, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over more than 4,000 years.

The Museum’s thought‑provoking, innovative, and intellectually stimulating exhibitions and education programs serve a wide range of audiences, including families, children and teens, students, educators, and visitors with disabilities. As an identity‑based institution, the Museum plays an important role among cultural institutions, challenging all forms of bigotry and discrimination and promoting understanding among wide audiences and especially in these challenging times.

The Jewish Museum invites applicants of all backgrounds to consider joining the Museum in its work.

The Jewish Museum is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. Integrity, collegiality, and excellence are central to the Museum’s values. These values, along with an institution‑wide commitment to Diversity, Equity, Access & Inclusion (DEAI), are embedded in the Museum’s strategic plan.

The Jewish Museum seeks a highly experienced museum professional, strategic thinker, and diplomatic professional to oversee major administration functions of the curatorial department with an enhanced focus on implementing strategies for a sustainable program of traveling exhibitions, borrowed shows, and institutional partnerships. Aligned with the re‑opening of the Museum’s transformed collection galleries, this new position will report to the Senior Deputy Director & Chief Curator and serve as a critical partner in developing models for streamlining systems, creating efficiencies in exhibition production, and developing a financial model for smaller, mid‑sized and large temporary exhibitions.

Specific responsibilities include the implementation of an ambitious schedule of in‑house, traveling, and collection‑based exhibitions; contracts and agreements with artists, guest curators, designers, and institutional partners; and budgets for all related activity. In addition to serving as a primary point person on details of the exhibition schedule and related logistics, the Director of Curatorial Administration will oversee three departments—collections, registration and program administration (i.e., exhibition production)—guiding long‑term objectives as well as near‑term needs for these areas.

• With the Chief Curator, lead the Museum’s long‑range exhibition planning to create a well‑balanced calendar that supports the Museum’s vision and institution‑wide priorities.
• Serve as primary point person on all matters pertaining to exhibition logistics, including schedules, budgets, design, and installation; facilitate communication to appropriate parties on major decisions and/or developments as they arise.
• Prepare for and lead quarterly "Exhibitions‑Finance‑Development" meetings to track changes and troubleshoot on exhibition budgets over a three‑year horizon, conferring regularly on income targets and reprojections.
• Ensure the implementation of a holistic approach to exhibition deadlines that accounts for detailed analysis of exhibition production (checklist, design installation) as well as major deadlines for publications, graphics, press andstə education.
• Work closely with the Exhibitions Manager to ensure an appropriate pace and workflow for the exhibition schedule and related timelines, including permanent collection galleries and rotations.
• Develop proposals for streamlining processes as needed towards greater efficiency and timeliness.

• Develop and advance a model for an ambitious traveling exhibition program focused on new institutional…