Anchorage Museum Climate Initiatives Coordinator

4 weeks ago


Anchorage, United States Anchorage Museum Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

The Anchorage Museum sits on the traditional homeland of the Eklutna Dena'ina. The Museum is committed to recognizing and honoring the land, culture, and language of the Dena'ina people. We recognize and respect the continuing connection, by Alaska Native people and all Indigenous people, to the land, waters, and communities.


Our mission is to be a museum for people, place, planet, and potential, in service of a sustainable and equitable North, with creativity and imagination for what is possible. We are a place of ideas and transformation, narratives and perspectives, resilient and relevant communities, responsive to a rapidly changing world toward a better future for all.


We welcome diverse perspectives and recognize all are enriched when a diversity of voices, viewpoints, and skills are included and engaged in the work we do.


Summary Position Statement

Under the general supervision of the Director, Climate & Sustainability, the Coordinator of Climate Initiatives is a position that supports the Museum's ongoing trans-disciplinary and outward-facing initiatives seeking to address the climate crisis. The incumbent will coordinate climate initiatives within the Museum, help develop and maintain communication platforms, and work on climate programs that engage audiences of all ages. The Coordinator of Climate Initiatives will engage in public discourse and co-creation with communities, culture bearers, scientists, artists, scholars, students, agencies, and experts. The incumbent will demonstrate a commitment to fact-based, public communication of environmental and ecological issues, recognizing the connections between the environment, social and economic sustainability, human health, and inequality.


Essential Functions

  • 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

Non-Essential Functions

  • 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

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

  • 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

Qualifications

We recognize and honor that the qualifications required to excel in this position can come from a range of both professional and lived experiences. In the job description we describe what we believe to be important qualifications for a candidate to have while remaining open to the diversity of experiences that can lead to these skill sets. Position descriptions are often presented in a way that leaves qualified candidates feeling unwelcome, intimidated, uncomfortable and/or unqualified to apply. Recognizing that, we strongly encourage anyone who feels passionate about this work and believes they have what it takes to thrive in this role to apply.


Employee Expectations

As a Museum employee, the incumbent is expected to model the following traits:

  • 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

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.



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