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Design Museum of Chicago · 1 day ago

Executive Director

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$100K/yr - $100K/yr

7+ years exp

Design Museum of Chicago is dedicated to inspiring, educating, and fostering innovation through design. The Executive Director will oversee the museum's operations, staff, and strategic direction while ensuring programmatic excellence and community engagement.

Association

Hiring Manager

Tanner Woodford

Responsibilities

Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve strategic goals

Actively engage and energize board members, partners, funders, and committees

Develop, maintain, and support a strong board of directors, serve as ex officio of each committee, and seek and build board involvement with strategic direction

Lead, manage, coach, develop, and retain DMoC’s high-performance leadership team and staff

Ensure effective systems to track project progress, regularly evaluate program components to ensure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

Expand local revenue-generating and fundraising activities, including a mix of sponsorships, individual donors, and foundations, to support existing program operations

Build and maintain a healthy, diverse funding mix: individual donors, foundations, sponsorships, and earned revenue

Serve as the museum’s primary fundraiser and relationship-builder, cultivating supporters with authenticity and respect

Support the Development Manager in developing and implementing the development strategy, including the annual benefit, fundraising campaigns, relationship building, etc

Deepen and refine all aspects of communications to create a stronger brand, including the oversight of the newsletter, website, and social media accounts. Leverage external presence and relationships to develop new opportunities

Support a robust slate of exhibits, events, and programs both in the museum and in Chicago neighborhoods, and other locations and programs both downtown and in communities across the city

Encourage innovation, risk-taking, and reflection in the development and presentation of all programming

Support the curatorial work that reflects Chicago’s diversity and supports artists and designers in meaningful ways

Support innovation, risk-taking, and reflection in the development and presentation of all programming

Represent the museum and the role of design in civic life across a wide range of settings, from neighborhood meetings to national panels

Develop and maintain partnerships with schools, artists, cultural organizations, and city agencies

Qualification

FundraisingLeadershipFinancial toolsDevelopment toolsCommunicationsBachelor's in designCommunity engagement

Required

Bachelor's of Arts in design or related field

At least 7-years of experience leading an organization

Demonstrated excellence in management, development, communications

Familiarity with financial tools (Quickbooks), development tools (Little Green Light) (fundraising), communications tools (Web platform, social others)