Museum Content Manager

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. The position provides direction and support for the development of the institutional narrative arc and thesis in alignment with the museum’s requirements and the College’s mission to deliver a compelling, cohesive visitor experience. The position provides a wide array of support across institutional development initiatives, curatorial research and writing, visitor experience development, and other audience development activities.

This is a Professional Exempt Contractual (PEC) position for which an annual contract reflecting the base salary within the fiscal year (July 1st to June 30th) will be issued after ratification by Miami Dade College’s District Board of Trustees.

• 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
• Performs other duties as assigned

• 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
• All degrees must be from a regionally accredited institution
• Knowledge and understanding of College organization, goals and objectives, and policies and procedures
• Knowledge of cultural landscape with respect to contemporary place-based museums, history-telling and storytelling, and interpretive methodologies and new museum paradigms
• Skilled writer for non-academic settings with a proven record of dynamic and accessible writing, particularly in cultural environments
• Knowledge and experience with preparation and execution of licensing / rights / loan / acquisition agreements
• Knowledge and experience with input and management of digital asset databases as well as museum collections management databases
• Demonstrated ability to tailor project delivery in alignment with the context of circumstances
• Effective verbal and written communications skills (English and Spanish)
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals and constituencies in a diverse community
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include evening, weekend and holiday assignments
• Ability to work well in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environment with students, faculty and staff

The final candidate is to successfully complete a background screening and reference check process.