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Vulnerable Landscapes. Christine Cruz Photography, 2023
Current Opportunities
Executive and Strategy Coordinator
The Staten Island Museum seeks a motivated Executive and Strategy Coordinator to provide essential administrative support to the President & CEO and development office. This role serves as a liaison between the CEO and staff team and the Board of Trustees in handling administrative needs and coordinating planning to meet institutional goals and deadlines. The Coordinator serves as a crucial link between leadership and the staff team to ensure work implementation is progressing to advance museum’s annual work, strategic goals and initiatives.
Responsibilities include providing project management support to institutional projects so that they planned effectively to meet objectives and deadlines, managing executive calendar and appointments, aligning cross-departmental teams and establishing workflow, supporting activities of the Board of Trustees, and analyzing programs and audience data. This position requires strong organization, project management, communication, and analytical skills to drive strategic success.
Reporting directly to the CEO, this is an excellent opportunity to serve as the right-hand person to the chief executive to learn and contribute to a nonprofit organization’s management.
Collections Assistant
The Staten Island Museum seeks a full-time Collections Assistant to provide collections care and maintenance for the institution’s object collections.
Reporting to the Director of Natural Science, the Collections Assistant will focus primarily on the museum’s archaeology collection, including Lenape artifacts for which SIM is preparing for tribal consultations. As part of a comprehensive inventory update, the Collections Assistant will conduct object inventory, create and analyze collection object records and ensure the integrity of data captured. The Collections Assistant will also provide support for the Natural Science collections, including inventory and organization. As a collections team member, the Collections Assistant contributes to Interpretive Planning discussions for exhibitions and collections displays.
This is an excellent learning and growth opportunity for hands-on experience working with a diverse range of collections, including natural science, history and art. This is a three-year grant-funded position, with the possibility of extension.
Project Archivist
The Staten Island Museum (SIM) seeks a part-time Project Archivist to assist the museum’s initiative to rehouse and inventory SIM’s archive. Reporting to the Collections Manager, the Project Archivist will rehouse and inventory 185 linear feet of archival collections. These collections will be rehoused into new folders and boxes, inventoried, databased and have their finding aids updated. In addition, unprocessed materials that are stored off-site will be sorted, inventoried, and reunited with the rest of the collection.
This is an excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience in an active archive and working with a wide-range of documents and materials. The Project Archivist role is a 3-year grant-funded position.
Archaeology Museum Fellow
The Staten Island Museum seeks a part-time Archaeology Museum Fellow (Archaeology Fellow) to assist the museum’s initiative to inventory and reevaluate the Staten Island archaeology collection.
The Staten Island Museum Fellow program is designed to provide access to paid work in a museum and to offer mentorship for individuals interested in pursuing a career in the cultural field. This is an excellent opportunity for college students and those early in their career to gain meaningful experience working in a museum to develop pertinent skills for their career path.
This role is funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums For America grant. It is a one year position with the possibility of renewal.
Internships
Interested in learning more about the inner workings of a museum? The Staten Island Museum offers internships for undergraduate and post graduate students to explore museum careers and gain professional experience.
Staten Island Museum is participating in the Arts Intern program for Summer 2025. Arts Intern provides opportunities for college students with financial need to experience arts professions. Explore careers in the arts and expand the possibilities for a better future with a paid nine week summer internship (June – Mid August).
Volunteering
Staten Island Museum has a longstanding tradition of engaging volunteers. Volunteers are a key part of the Museum’s operations whether facilitating public programs, supporting special events, providing docent tours or providing community outreach.
To get involved as a volunteer at the Museum, please contact our Director of Operations Renée Bushelle at [email protected].