Miami Dade College is seeking a dedicated and experienced professional to serve as the Museum Content Manager at Wolfson Campus. The Museum Content Manager leads the museum’s visitor experience narrative development for the Freedom Tower and other spaces operated by the Museum of Art and Design.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Researches and identifies the underlying themes, topics, and stories of the narrative arc and the tangible and intangible assets – artifacts, visual art, images, moving image, music, quotations, poetry, oral histories, etc. – to support the narrative arc
- Collaborates closely with Museum Executive Director and Chief Curator and exhibition design teams and vendors to evolve the content selection according to the exhibition medium/approach and vice versa – steer the exhibition medium/approach based on available asset selection, additional reviews needed for verification/fact-checking and narrative balance, determining input integration
- Provides support and coordination of MDC personnel and project team member/s tasked with designing and realizing the Freedom Towers digital assets to establish the specifications for the visitor experience
- Serves as the primary contact for interns, artists, and other vendors convened and/or engaged to collaborate on the narrative arc development and content asset selection
- Writes and researches content for website, Bloomberg app, exhibition didactics, and publications
- Organizes execution of licensing, rights, loan, and acquisition agreements including the anticipation/flagging of licensing challenges and impact therein on design or deadlines
- Participates and contributes to pre-reopening activities across institutional brand development; communications outreach strategy; audience development and engagement strategy; programmatic outreach strategy
- Supervises the metadata work flows required to identify, store, retrieve and deploy digital media assets into the permanent and temporary exhibits including the development of a taxonomy to make the collection searchable
- Leads the development of curricula/student opportunities throughout the visitor design phases resulting in permanent student opportunities for the reopened museum
- Supports the drafting of the Museum of Art and Design 5-year Strategic Plan, specifically the collections policy as it relates to future acquisitions and content generated by visitors
- Coordinates with team members from the Department of Cultural Affairs in the programmatic integration of brands – Kislak Center, Miami Book Fair, Miami Film Festival, Live Arts – as applicable to the delivery of the Freedom Tower Museum visitor experience
- Works closely with MDC Archives Department and FIFA Museum colleagues
- Assists with the creation and coordination of pop-up exhibitions and programs supporting MDC’s campuses
Minimum Requirements:
- Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in History, Museum Studies, or related field and two (2) years of interpretive planning, and/or exhibition development, museum curatorial and operations work or related experience; or Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution and six (6) years of related experience.
To learn more about this and other employment opportunities with Miami Dade College, please visit us at www.mdc.edu/jobs.