Exhibit Project Manager

Liberty Science Center • Jersey City, NJ

10d • $65,000 - $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As Exhibitions Project Manager at Liberty Science Center (LSC), you oversee the logistics, teams, and timelines of physical exhibition installations. This includes tracking budgets, contracts, licensing, and the approval process, as well as coordinating communication within and among internal departments and external vendors and partners. Responsibilities include collaborating effectively across teams to oversee new projects and renew existing exhibitions and contributing to the coordination of other institutional initiatives. The Exhibitions Project Manager reports to the Vice President of Exhibitions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience of organization and project management across multiple simultaneous projects
• Leadership that supports a collaborative work environment
• Experience managing external partnerships or contractors
• Innovative problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated success as a project manager of a creative or technical team.
• Experience with budget management
• Fluency with digital project management tools and software, including MS Word, Acrobat, PowerPoint and Excel
• Knowledge of new technology, multimedia and film production is a plus

Nice To Haves

• Strong exhibition coordination, production, or project management experience in a museum, science center, or related context.
• BA/BS (MA/MS preferred) degree in science, math, engineering, science education, social sciences or a field related to informal teaching and learning.
• Certification in project management.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with project teams including content developers, designers, media specialists, and contractors to bring multi-faceted exhibit projects to fruition on schedule and within budget.
• Oversee details and logistics for all phases of exhibition development, production, fabrication, installation and post opening to ongoing and upcoming special exhibitions, temporary installations, traveling installations, and other digital and physical exhibition projects.
• Participate in review of bid packages and contracts for project vendors (fabrication, multimedia, etc.).
• Coordinate project schedules, meeting agendas, and workflow for internal and external teams.
• Track project budget and process invoices.
• Manage and maintain exhibition project documentation which includes contract management, licensing, and the approval process.
• Review exhibition design drawings and consultant coordination documents which may include data, lighting, electrical, and architectural coordination.
• Oversee quality control through production.
• Develop deliverables for staff, designers, fabricators, media producers, and other external vendors and partners.
• Help produce and document standards and processes for project management best practices applicable across a range of projects.
• Work closely with other Liberty Science Center staff as part of a cross-divisional exhibition team.
• Support other exhibition development, research, administrative, and project management responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• A range of excellent health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Life and disability coverage
• 2 Retirement Savings Plans
• 3-4 weeks of paid vacation (level dependent)
• Paid sick time
• 6 days of flexible paid time off
• Pet insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Commuter benefits for parking and transit
• LSC Family Membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level