Deputy Director - Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

The Deputy Director is a senior leadership team member overseeing many fundamental areas of NEHMAs operations and administration assuming a significant scope of responsibility. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the strategic direction and implementation of initiatives at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University as it embarks on a new era. In 2025 the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will open a new facility the Wanlass Center for Arts Education and Research to augment and expand current learning and engagement opportunities to better serve students scholars and the community as a leading academic landgrant university museum in the 21st century. This new position serves as a partner and advisor to the Museum Executive Director to achieve strategic goals and implement organizational initiatives focusing on strategy efficiency process and assessment.

The Deputy Director deeply understands museum operations and can align the workflows of multiple departments and functions to create cohesive collaborative teams. As a senior staff member at the NEHMA the Deputy Director collaborates with leadership colleagues to manage a dynamic museum team promote interdepartmental communication and increase efficiencies in museumwide workflows.

This position leads finance management facility and security management visitor services public relations and marketing grants and event rentals. There are three direct reports the Visitor and Events Services Coordinator PR and Marketing Coordinator and the Business Manager. The Deputy Director is also a senior administrator overseeing the museums legal needs working with the Office of Legal Counsel and other external partners is the primary liaison for human resources support working closely with the Business Manager and liaising with Facilities Management as needed.

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• Assesses strengths and gaps in current operational workflow processes and procedures to create a new overall operations strategy.
• Manages professional staff and establishes performance goals allocates resources and assesses policies for direct subordinates.
• Provides leadership and guidance for timelines deadlines staffing communications and budgets.
• Manages budgets for all areas of the museum working closely with the Business and Finance managers and Grant Writer/Development Officer to ensure financial compliance.
• Collaborates with the Executive Director and other senior staff to track organizational performance against both the annual budget and strategic plan objectives.
• Guides the strategy and implementation for all communications marketing public relations and collateral materials to enhance the NEHMAs presence in the regional national and international community through print media and digital platforms. This includes advertising branding website publicity annual report grants reports communications and other needs.

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• Serves as primary liaison for Museum human resources initiatives working with HR Business Manager on projects involving employee engagement training and development safety and health succession planning conflict resolution onboarding/offboarding protocols and Museumspecific staff policies and procedures.
• Provides leadership and guidance for Museum facilities and security. Responsible for facilities maintenance and events/rental of all NEHMAoccupied spaces ensuring the building operates efficiently and safely in compliance with AAM standards and best practices.
• Serves as staff representative to Facilities and external contractors.
• Manages relationships for the Museum with the Office of Risk Management Office of Public Safety Office of Environmental Health and Safety IT Services and Facilities.
• Serves as NEHMA representative overseeing the museums legal needs working with the Office of Legal Counsel and other external partners.
• Represents the Museum at campus community and other external events as necessary.

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• Oversees external reporting including annual reports and reports for the Advancement Board and Board of Trustees. Prepares and presents reports as needed.
• Acts as a key partner in the creation of NEHMAs next strategic plan and collaborates with the Executive Director and senior leadership to manage its implementation for the Museum.
• Implements streamlined institutional archival processes and organization for museums digital files.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: A college or university degree in a related field.
• Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 7 years of work experience in a related position ideally with museums and/or higher education OR an equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education: Masters degree in arts administration business administration management or related field.
• Work Experience: Five years of progressive experience in a leadership role preferably in a museum. This could also be from higher education arts philanthropic or nonprofit organizations.
• Previous experience with strategic planning and longterm visioning.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of museum best practices and current and emerging trends in the academic museum field.
• An adept leader who can effectively manage and mentor staff reports in an active and diverse environment.
• Budget development and financial management in higher education or a nonprofit organization with multiple sources of revenue including state and federal grants.
• Conceptualize steps involved in implementing programs events and broader projects.
• Knowledge of systems of assessment and evaluation.
• Establish and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with the Museums internal team internal and external University collaborators and diverse museum audiences.
• Welldeveloped interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work positively and collegially with staff administration students and the public.
• Welldeveloped written/oral communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

Along with the online application please attach:

1. Resume/CV to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under Resume/CV
2. *Optional* Letter of Recommendation to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under Documents 110
3. Cover Letter to be typed/pasted at the end of your application

**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**

Employees work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants but not necessarily occasional temperature changes. The employee is regularly required to sit and often uses repetitive hand motions.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice. The Museum has long served as a model for academic art museums by combining creative and intellectual engagement and open dialogue that bridge lines of culture language and lived experience. It also supports the land grant mission of Utah State University in providing extensive learning opportunities and experience with the community and to K12 schools across the state of Utah. Thousands of visitors annually experience NEHMA with exhibitions and programs highlighting permanent collections works by modern and contemporary artists and objects on loan from institutional partners and private collectors.

NEHMAs permanent collection dynamically supports academic and artistic study inspires new ideas and creative interpretation and provides a space for reflection and conversation for the Museums many audiences. Comprising over 5500 objects this growing body of artworks represents American Art emphasizing art and artists in the western US. With the new Wanlass Center for Art Education & Research opening next year Utah State University is keen to support the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Arts dynamic role as a leading 21stcentury academic art museum.

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