As a leader within the Education and Exhibitions Department, the Exhibitions Manager works collaboratively to implement seasonal exhibitions and related programming that supports the Garden’s mission, engages our community, and encourages visitation. They ensure the safe, secure, timely, and successful completion of all necessary designs, budgets, contracts, schedules, coordination measures, logistics, and program offerings for exhibitions. The Exhibitions Manager supervises exhibition installation, implementation, evaluation, break-down, and reporting. The successful candidate will be an intuitive, creative, resourceful, innovative, flexible and experienced leader with a proven record of success in designing and managing exhibitions, projects, or programs in gardens, arboreta or other cultural nonprofit organizations. The Exhibitions Manager will embrace and represent the diverse community and region that we serve and ensure relevance of exhibits for all audiences.

Responsibilities

Creates, implements and manages a 36-month schedule of exhibitions.

• Researches, analyzes, and proposes innovative exhibitions that are mission appropriate, cost-effective and relevant to our diverse community.
• Leads the inter-departmental Programming & Interpretation Committee, communicating and coordinating content, planning, and calendars with staff and volunteers.

In coordination with other Garden staff and community partners, creates and implements inclusive interpretive materials and educational programming.

• Coordinates programming related to seasonal exhibitions with teams across departments for member previews, drop-in activities, performances, special events and gift shop.
• Ensures aesthetic and inclusive design, content, and production of exhibition-related materials.

Provides superior leadership and establishes strong working relationships with internal and external partners.

• Designs, coordinates, implements, and monitors staff and volunteer working groups.
• Actively seeks and maintains positive partnerships with team members across the Garden for support of exhibition success.
• Maintains consistent and close professional relationships with volunteers, artists, community arts organizations, and peers at other Gardens nationally and internationally to stay current for potential exhibitions.

Devises, documents, maintains, and manages annual exhibition plans and budgets for the current and subsequent two fiscal years.

• Works closely with Advancement Department to develop grant and sponsorship proposals as well as post-exhibition reports.
• Determines annual budget needs, authorizes budget expenditures, and manages the assigned operating budgets for individual exhibitions in collaboration with Finance Team.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership skills, including expertise in effectively supervising, mentoring, motivating and managing staff, interns, and volunteers.
• Foster teamwork and mentor staff, interns, and volunteers by modeling best practices alongside them, embracing the Garden’s commitment to excellence in all departments, willingly and cheerfully integrating necessary work with the numerous tasks already assigned other departments.
• The ability to work effectively and respectfully with people of diverse cultures, ages, and economic backgrounds.
• Knowledge of evaluation methods as it relates to exhibitions, programs, or events.
• Excellent organizational, administrative, and creative-thinking skills, with a proven ability to balance the vision and mission of an institution with great attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines while juggling multiple tasks and projects, planning months and years in advance while responding to day-to-day demands.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A demonstrated positive approach to problem solving and collaborating with others.
• Technical proficiency with computers, databases, Microsoft software programs, and social media platforms.
• Flexibility to work weekend, evening and holiday hours, as needed.