Curatorial Projects Manager

Description:

Roles and Responsibilities:
 

• Actively facilitate collaboration between the Curatorial Department and all other internal stakeholders, and

external designers, consultants, partners, and vendors to ensure the successful implementation of projects.

• Manage exhibition projects by creating and monitoring schedules for exhibition deliverables, assigning

tasks, enforcing deadlines, and coordinating communication on progress and next steps.

• Develop and maintain project budgets in collaboration with the Associate Director of Curatorial Projects

and the project team, including quarterly forecasting for departmental budgets.

• Lead postmortem reflections and leverage project management processes, best practices, and technology

to continually improve workflows in the context of broader institutional objectives.

• Coordinate the development of exhibition designs (conceptual, schematic, technical) with the project team,

ensuring accuracy through interdepartmental reviews and effective communication of changes.

• Support the Director of Exhibition Installation, exhibition designers, and vendors by creating and

maintaining production, fabrication, and installation trackers to ensure all deliverables are produced on
schedule, on budget, and to the required specifications.

• Organize and oversee the development, production, and editing of exhibition text, graphics, reproductions,

and audiovisual content. Coordinate with the Curatorial Projects Assistant and exhibition designers to
ensure quality and accuracy of all materials. Use Adobe InDesign and Illustrator for text layout.

• Manage collaboration between the project team, exhibition designers, and vendors to develop and realize

opportunities for visitors to engage or interact with exhibition content or materials from initial conception
and requirements gathering through production, installation, and routine maintenance.

• Actively oversee exhibition installation and manage related administrative tasks including file organization

and archiving.

• Initiate, organize, and conduct meetings, supervise departmental interns, and facilitate content sharing

with internal departments.

• Perform other duties as needed