Anchorage Museum Climate Initiatives Coordinator
Anchorage Museum
- Anchorage, AK
- $62,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with museum staff members to coordinate sound and attainable strategies relative to sustainable practices, facilities, as well as investigate leading green practices in the museum and arts/culture fields that can be applied to aspect or our and others' work
- Assist with planning and implementation, including research, writing, and editing, and communications
- Collect and import data to for ongoing carbon audit
- Support climate internships
- Support and create programs and materials relevant to climate change and climate justice issues
- Write, draft, and edit texts and content for social media and website
- Support artist residencies and convenings around scholarship and curatorial projects related to climate change, the environment/natural world, and sustainability
- Inspire and support a vision for a museum's role in elucidating one of the most relevant issues of our day
- Prioritize relationship building
- Staff events and communicate and coordinate with other departments regarding relevant programming
- Work within budgets
- Assist with grant writing and reporting
- Work to guide and implement programs that engage, strengthen, and inspire the community in preparation for better future
- Assist with hosting, coordinating and touring research fellows, artists, volunteers, interns, and others
- Engage participants in the virtual world, including virtual programming, social media and web content
- Other duties as assigned
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Strong organizational skills and able to set and carry out short-term goals while keeping long-term goals in mind
- Strong writing, editing, and project-management skills
- Able to work independently and organize time efficiently to meet deadlines
- Initiative to undertake and complete tasks and projects as they arise
- Innovative, team-oriented, and highly motivated
- Able to work professionally and collaboratively with colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a team-oriented environment
- Able to handle multiple tasks and projects with changing priorities as required
- Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Maintain a positive attitude and convey a customer-service attitude internally and externally, being a role model for teamwork and the greater organizational good
- Foster and maintain open communication and collaboration and actively engage in the exchange of ideas and maintaining constructive relationships
- Initiative and creativity in all aspects of the position
- Lead by example by maintaining a high standard of professional ethics and conduct
- Treat everyone with dignity and respect
- Support and uphold the policies, procedures of the Museum