Assistant Director

Description:

Skills and qualifications: The successful candidate will demonstrate that they have:

• The ability to quickly find, assess and summarize relevant and authoritative information.
• An aptitude for writing clear, concise, engaging prose, and producing engaging media.
• Comfort with making presentations in front of groups.
• High degree of facility with web search tools, common word processing and data

management platforms, and ability to master new platforms and tools as needed.

• Ability to sequence and manage multiple tasks and resources.
• Ability to work well with colleagues, and to find and work with external partners suited to

help accomplish specific goals.

• Creativity—ability to generate ideas, projects, solutions.
• Entrepreneurship—the ability to take responsible risks and fail productively in order to

test ideas and improve pilot projects through iteration.
AAM is particularly interested in candidates who are enthusiastic about contributing to a
workplace environment that values diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) and can
complement our DEAI work by offering unique perspectives and understanding of issues
impacting groups that have been traditionally under-represented in the museum field.