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Executive Director
The Alaska Botanical Garden seeks an inspiring, relationship-driven leader to lead one of Alaska’s most beloved cultural and environmental institutions through a transformational period of growth and expansion. Building on a strong organizational foundation, the Executive Director will lead a talented staff, partner with an engaged Board of Directors, deepen community relationships, and advance a bold vision for the Garden’s future.
At a pivotal moment in its history, the Garden has outgrown its existing facilities and is preparing for a transformative expansion. Guided by an adopted Master Plan and informed by a recently completed feasibility study, the Garden Expansion Project will enhance visitor experiences, expand educational opportunities, and strengthen the organization’s long-term sustainability. The Executive Director will provide leadership for this multi-year initiative, partnering closely with the Board and experienced campaign counsel to launch and lead a successful capital campaign.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of one of North America’s most distinctive public gardens while living and working in the extraordinary natural landscape of Anchorage, Alaska. The strongest candidates may come from botanical gardens, museums, parks, conservation organizations, universities, science centers, or other mission-driven organizations and will bring the curiosity to learn, the humility to collaborate with technical experts, and the leadership skills to inspire people around a shared vision. This position offers the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy by leading a beloved community institution through one of the most significant moments in its history.
Executive Director
Lead Alaska’s State Arts Agency
The Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and publicly minded leader to serve as Executive Director. This executive-level position provides statewide leadership for Alaska’s public arts agency, advances the Council’s mission, and ensures that public resources are managed with integrity, transparency, and measurable impact. The Executive Director works with the Council, state leadership, staff, Tribal partners, artists, arts and cultural organizations, educators, communities, and national partners to strengthen access to the arts throughout Alaska.
About the Alaska State Council on the Arts
ASCA is Alaska’s state arts agency. The Council supports artists, organizations, schools, educators, communities, and cultural partners through grants, programs, partnerships, technical assistance, public art, arts education, accessibility leadership, and statewide advocacy. ASCA serves communities across a geographically vast and culturally diverse state, including urban, rural, and remote communities. Success in the Executive Director role requires strong relationships, respect and understanding of local and Tribal knowledge, practical approaches to bridging distance, systems and infrastructure, and a commitment to reaching communities that may have limited transportation, broadband, staffing, or access to philanthropic resources.
The Opportunity
The Executive Director position leads agency strategy, operations, budgeting, personnel, public policy, partnerships, and organizational culture. The Executive Director supports the Council in its governance role and works within the State of Alaska’s administrative, legal, budget, procurement, personnel, ethics, and accountability systems. This is a highly visible role requiring excellent judgment, nonpartisan leadership, and the ability to explain the public value of the arts to many audiences. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable preparing a budget request, briefing a Council or legislative committee, listening in a rural community, negotiating with a federal partner, coaching staff, and responding calmly to a high-stakes public issue.
Curator of Collections & Exhibits
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
A strong candidate for this position would have experience working with collection management, be able to prioritize and multitask in a busy workplace, collaborating with artists and contractors to create exhibits and programs that complement the City Museum’s mission. Incumbents provide information about exhibit changes to Museum staff, seek opportunities for partnerships and alternative funding (grants), and guide temporary exhibit artists and contractors with design, installation, and maintenance of temporary exhibits.
Candidates should possess effective computer skills, clear verbal and written communication skills particularly as it pertains to exhibit text, exceptional attendance, reliability, flexibility, and strong attention to detail. A strong candidate will be able to perform extensive research for public and external inquiries, referral, source validation related to local historical artifacts.
THE BENEFITS OF JOINING OUR TEAM
In this position you will receive a competitive salary package that includes the opportunity for regular pay increases, 13 paid holidays a year, an excellent health insurance program that includes medical, dental, vision and orthodontia care options, paid leave and retirement credit through PERS (Public Employees’ Retirement System).
We value the health and well-being of our employees. The CBJ provides paid parental leave, free parking, paid time off for parent teacher conferences, the ability to participate in a robust wellness program that includes discounts to CBJ recreational centers and local fitness programs, free bi-annual health screenings, free flu shots, free classes, challenges and webinars on healthy living to assist you with achieving work/life balance.
WORKING HOURS AND LOCATION
Depending on season, this position works at the City Museum five (5) days a week. During installations and special events, this will include evenings and weekends. You will work at a staff desk, in the collections area, and at the museum front reception desk when needed.
Typical Responsibilities
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Under general direction, performs professional curatorial duties related to the acquisition, registration, management, security, and care of the museum’s permanent exhibits and loan collections. This position is also responsible for the design, development and maintenance of museum exhibits and displays.
Typical responsibilities include the following:
- Acquisition, registration, condition, study and management of the Juneau Douglas City Museum permanent and loan collections, including approximately 7,000 objects, 90,000 photographs, 10,000 archival papers, 4,000 reference documents, and structures/large objects of historical significance located off-site around the City and Borough of Juneau.
- Researches and recommends the solicitation, acquisition or de-accession of art works, historical objects and archival material for the collections; assists with establishing insurance values; document in-coming and out-going loans.
- Maintenance and upgrades for permanent exhibits; lends professional advice to the Library Director to develop and recommend exhibits, including the design, installation, and dismantling of temporary exhibits.
- Supports solo artist exhibits with instillation, design, and dismantling.
- Performs extensive research for public and external inquiries, including historical information, complex analysis, summarization, artifact searches, interpretation, translation, and referral, source validation related to historical artifacts, structures, and geographic areas.
- Identifies and assesses needs from collections and makes recommendations to the Library Director for prioritization.
- Provides information on the collections for newsletter, publicity, reports, grants, and public presentations.
- Makes recommendations on and develops and implements exhibit and collection management guidelines and policies.
- Provide professional curatorial advice or consultative services to small and larger museums locally and within the region.
- Maintains and upgrades collections database, photo-documentation and insurance records of all collections.
- May assist at the front desk, including opening and closing the Museum facility and utilizing a point-of-sale(POS) system.
- Monitors environmental conditions in exhibits and storage areas; makes or recommends modifications to ensure the
- preservation of the collections.
- Assists with facility operations and monitoring of the HVAC system.
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