EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Ogunquit, Maine

Opportunity to lead healthy, growing art museum on Maine’s scenic coast, 80 minutes from Boston. Ogunquit Museum of American Art (https://ogunquitmuseum.org/) seeks museum leader with curatorial knowledge, vision, management and fundraising experience to build on recent successes and continue rapid growth. Recently Museum has doubled operating budget and membership, broken attendance records. Collection is renowned for works by 20th-century Ogunquit art-colony artists and more broadly includes American art from the late 1800s to today. Special exhibitions spotlight American Modernism to contemporary art. Sculpture garden offers inspiring ocean views. ED should embrace ambitious growth goals of the Board, an engaged, congenial, regional group. ED with vision, energy, creativity, and outgoing personality will update strategic plan, tap into existing/new resources, implement vision.

QUALIFICATIONS
Required knowledge, experience, skills and abilities

1. Leadership skills to guide institutional growth. Can develop a vision, achieve buy-in and execute plan. Enjoys wearing many hats, pitching in to create success at small museum.

2. Minimum of 5 years of management/supervisory experience. Skills to motivate, retain employees/volunteers. Experience planning and executing projects; developing and monitoring budgets, marketing a museum, including social media, technology. Multi-tasking abilities.

3. Fundraising and grantwriting experience. Eager to solicit gifts, meet targets. Capacity to cultivate/steward stakeholders. Willing to plan, lead future capital campaign.

4. B.A. in art history or B.F.A. or related field. M.A. preferred.

5. Art-museum experience. Knowledge of museum standards, trends. Curatorial background in exhibitions, collections, publications.

6. Good public face, enthusiastic; effective speaker and communicator. Energy and sociability to engage and expand audiences. Welcoming, courteous, gracious manner. Will reach out to, participate in community, attend events.

Nominations welcome. Apply in confidence: Email cover letter, résumé, salary requirement, 3 references by September 16, 2016 to search firm: Marilyn Hoffman, Museum Search & Reference, SearchandRef@museum-search.com. For details, and full Job Description, see http://museum-search.com/open-searches. EOE.

Opened in 1953, OMAA has 5 galleries and a 3-acre sculpture garden with ocean views. Permanent collection highlights artists of Ogunquit’s famous 20th-century art colony/art schools, including 2,000 American paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs from late 1800s to today, including Hartley, Kent, Kuhn, Burchfield, Marin, Zorach, as well as Jack Levine, Will Barnett and many contemporary artists. Special exhibitions feature collection theme-shows, single-artist and loaned shows. Open May- October for exhibitions. Staff is Director plus 6 part-time year-round, doubling in summer). Operating budget $630,000. Education programs include school tours, outreach programs, weekly public talks and children’s story hours. Member of Maine Art Museum Trail. See: https://ogunquitmuseum.org/.

Ogunquit is a seaside summer resort with visitors/summer residents from all over the US. Outdoor recreation opportunities from sailing, fishing, biking to skiing; beaches, Marginal Way walks. Renowned Ogunquit Playhouse, art galleries, antique shops, seafood restaurants. Friendly, safe place to raise family; good public schools. See: www.ogunquit.org/ and http://visitmaine.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/. Portland, 45 minutes north, has gourmet restaurants, Portland Museum of Art, historic sites and shopping. Portsmouth, NH is 20 minutes south; Boston, Logan Airport, 80 minutes; NYC, 5 hours. https://www.visitportland.com and www.portsmouthnh.com/.