Current Opportunities
Executive Director
Executive Director
Telfair Museums
Savannah, Georgia
The Telfair Museums (Telfair) seeks a vibrant, strategic, and engaging leader to serve as its next executive
director. This is an opportunity to lead a major cultural institution with a powerful connection to the community of
Savannah and a national arts reputation. Telfair’s mission is to offer compelling expressions of visual culture –
embracing three unique buildings and three distinct collections that bridge three centuries of art and architecture.
The museum develops awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the arts and serves as a dynamic cultural
center connecting people of all ages and backgrounds.
The executive director will build on the strong legacy of the Telfair Museums and continue its record of innovation
to effectively tell the combined story of the three sites. They will guide the organization with a vision that
amplifies Telfair as an essential community and cultural destination, charting a path that utilizes the Telfair
Museum’s singular ability to engage the past, present, and future of art, history, and architecture. Working with
the board of trustees, staff, and community stakeholders, the executive director will provide strategic vision,
energetically and broadly engage the community and national peers, and serve as a persuasive advocate and
spokesperson for the Telfair. This leader must be relational in their approach, civically engaged, embrace the
social expectations of an important Savannahian leader, and possess the ability to develop sources of financial
support for the Telfair’s strategic ambitions.
The Telfair Museums has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in the recruitment
of its next Executive Director. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, and CVs with cover letters should be sent via the
Isaacson, Miller website: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/telfair-museums/executive-director to the
attention of Sarah James, Ryan Leichenauer, Siobhan Hanley.
Telfair Museums is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from candidates of any
race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation,
and/or any other legally protected status.