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About the Role

The Head of Education will oversee over 25,000 programs annually for The Met Fifth and The Met Cloisters, serving a diverse local and global audience. The department is a leader in museum-based education and public programming, driving innovation and experimentation. The role involves managing over 50 education staff and 400 volunteers, orchestrating programs such as internships, fellowships, educator programs, lectures, symposia, community engagement, and tours. The Head will also manage departmental activities including personnel, budgeting, and fundraising.

Responsibilities

Envision and execute a comprehensive strategy for education that uplifts the Museum’s core mission and vision, affirms The Met as a leader in the field, and broadens access to the Museum and its collections.
Oversee, champion, and execute an innovative and cohesive suite of programs and initiatives that uplift the Museum’s commitment to learning, engagement, and access and draw on the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, scholarship, and assets.
Attract, lead, and motivate a diverse team of staff, interns, fellows, and vendors, providing professional training and opportunities for growth and advancement.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with donors, supporters, collectors, scholars, artists, and community partners and organizations.
Fundraise, analyze, and optimize established revenue streams and identify departmental and Museum-wide opportunities for new ones.
Expand and deepen The Met’s commitment to and engagement with local communities and partners, including other educational, philanthropic, and cultural institutions, as well as partnerships with public school systems across New York State.
Drive experimentation in developing and enhancing programs and learning experiences that actively encourage new and diverse audiences to explore art and the Museum, locally and globally.
Oversee and direct budgets, staffing, deadlines, deliverables, and competing agendas.
Organize, set priorities, create action plans, delegate, coordinate, and deliver results while navigating a hierarchical complex multisite organization.
Establish cross-functional relationships and build consensus.
Other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Advanced degree in education or art history preferred.
15 years of management experience in a museum or cultural institution.
Adept at building and managing a high-performing staff and facilitating their ability to work collaboratively and deliver results as a team.
10 years demonstrated experience in articulating and driving a distinctive organizational, cultural, or educational vision and mobilizing internal and external support for programs.
Strategic and collaborative by nature, self-confident, secure, unflappable, pragmatic, grounded, authoritative, decisive, and disciplined.
Possesses a strong sense of integrity and an unerring ethical compass.
Demonstrate deep knowledge of and passion for art, commitment to education and lifelong learning, intellectual inquiry, visitor engagement, and The Met’s potential in each.
Demonstrated track record in donor engagement.
Experience engaging a board and/or multiple stakeholders including volunteers, donors, local government and public-school officials, and community leaders.
Knowledge of NYC education systems, community partnerships, and program delivery models preferred.
Superlative communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills grounded in excellent judgment.
A diplomatic ambassador who can listen, hold a position, engage diverse partners, and drive complicated projects to closure.
Digitally adept.
In-depth knowledge of current and emerging educational trends required.

Skills

Fundraising
Budgeting
Personnel management
Strategic planning
Collaboration
Communication
Interpersonal skills
Negotiation
Diplomacy
Digital literacy
Donor engagement
Stakeholder management

Location

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Pennsylvania (Tri-state and PA areas)

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

15 years of management experience
10 years demonstrated experience in articulating and driving a distinctive organizational, cultural, or educational vision

Education Level

Advanced degree in education or art history preferred

Salary/Compensations

$270,000.00 - $310,000.00 / Annually

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
403(b) basic retirement plan and optional matching retirement plan with an outstanding employer match
Considerable paid time off, including annual leave, sick leave, and 13 Museum holidays
Long-term disability coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Account
Commuter benefits
Free financial-planning services
Financial assistance for relevant coursework, seminars, and training programs
25% discount for staff in Museum shops
A subsidized staff cafeteria
Access to the Museums Council pass

About the Company

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters.
Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
The Met is committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage.
The Met is, and sees itself as, an educational institution.
The Education Department ensures that the scholarship and collection of the Museum are accessible and inviting for all audiences regardless of background, ability, age, or experience.
Education works daily to connect, inspire, collaborate, and innovate with its colleagues within The Met in order to better connect with and inspire its local, national, and international audience beyond it.

Equal Opportunity

The Met is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
The Met will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status, marital status or domestic partner status, genetic information, genetic predisposition or carrier status, gender identity, HIV status, military status and any other category protected by law in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.