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The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of the world's cultures.
The Museum's dedicated employees and volunteers who serve in a variety of ways are each a part of the Museum community, and are each important to the life of the Museum.
If you would like to consider joining our organization, please view our current job openings. Our online employment application system is available 24 hours daily.
The American Museum of Natural History provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals who can perform the essential functions of their positions. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Human Resources Department. Decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case basis.
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The Staff Accountant will assist in various aspects of financial statement accounting and will report to the Associate Controller. Job responsibilities include the following: Analyze and record retail activity on a monthly basis. Prepare and remit the Museum’s sales tax payment on monthly basis and prepare the sales tax filing on a quarterly basis. Provide support to the Assistant Director of Restricted Funds over the accounting for the federal grants program - this includes federal grant setups and maintenance in Oracle, and it also includes various reconciliations and monthly grant closeouts. Review and record to the general ledger the monthly activity for the Museum’s travel account. Other special projects and duties as assigned.
A bachelor’s degree is required (preferably in accounting). Candidate must have good interpersonal skills. Prior knowledge of Oracle is preferred. Interested applicants may send their resume with cover letter and salary history/requirements to: finance@amnh.org.
Administrative Assistant, Global Business Development
Position Description:
The American Museum of Natural History, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a qualified individual to provide administrative support for the Sr. Director, and day to day assistance with activities and special projects for the Global Business Development Department.
Responsibilities:
- Perform basic administrative duties
- Logistics and other arrangements for incoming visits, conferences and meetings and tours
- Coordinate travel arrangements and itineraries
- Trade show logistics coordination and support
- Project Management coordination and tracking as needed
- Records Maintenance and Reporting for budgets, travel records, database management, business continuity and internal and external communications
- Basic Office Management: ordering supplies, furniture, IT needs etc.
- Internal and External Communications: Manage timecards, distribute pay checks, facilitate mail, fed ex and other deliveries
Qualifications:
- 2 – 3 years professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree is required
- Strong proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Outlook and both Mac and PC systems including presentation audio/visual systems
Other:
- Friendly, with the ability to interact with individuals at all levels
- Impeccable business acumen, discretion and knowledge of professional protocol
- Ability to take initiative, review processes, recommend and implement improvements where appropriate
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail and accuracy
Interested applicants should forward their resume, cover letter and salary history to: busdev5@amnh.org.
Marketing Manager, Global Business Development
Position Description:
The American Museum of Natural History, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a motivated individual to help support the marketing efforts of the Global Business Development sales team. Current business lines include traveling exhibitions, intellectual properties, planetarium content, licensing, publishing, HD video and educational materials and tools. We serve over 120 partner institutions on five continents. Delivery of such content fulfills the Museum’s mission to promote science literacy and education, creates increased visibility for AMNH and the sponsors of its programs, and generates revenue for the museum programs.
This position will work with the head of the department as well as other sales staff, operations managers, scientists and educators.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the development and implementation of marketing, advertising promotional materials to drive sales to partnering institutions
- Assist in the development and implementation of integrated marketing materials to bundle with traveling exhibitions
- Update and maintain contact database, salesforce.com, creating reports and doing basic analysis as necessary
- Keep sales materials ready by coordinating inventory, orders and fulfillment of brochures, ensuring the website is up to date, and ensuring easy access to up-to-date sales presentations
- Assist in the coordination of partner meetings, trade shows, and other sales events.
- Research competitive products and industry trends, creating and maintaining research databases and presentations
- Develop creative and innovative solutions that can drive efficiency, profitability and value for the sales process
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 – 4 years marketing, sales administration or other relevant experience
- Sound understanding of the principles of marketing
- Creative and innovative
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good project management skills
- Strong understanding of new technologies and social media and how they can be applied to marketing
- Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong copywriting skills
- Team player – works to ensure team goals are met or exceeded
- Science background, or other exposure to academic or museum processes would be an advantage but is not required
- International exposure and foreign languages a plus but not required
- Computer proficiency with Microsoft Office, experience with Adobe Illustrator a plus
- Excellent Word (creation of templates and macros), Excel, Powerpoint (Prezi experience would be a plus), and Outlook skills
Other:
- Must be upbeat, articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and have the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-changing entrepreneurial environment
- Need to have an outgoing, dynamic personality and be comfortable interacting with various personalities and different levels of negotiations
- Must be an effective problem solver and an excellent communicator
- Educational requirements –Bachelor’s degree, or its international equivalent, required
Interested applicants should forward their resume, cover letter and salary history to: busdev5@amnh.org.
Staff Accountant, General Accounting
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of the world's cultures.
AMNH is currently seeking a Staff Accountant to assist in various aspects of general accounting. The position reports to the General Accounting Manager. Job responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: Clear biweekly ACH direct payment batches in oracle and assist in the ongoing set up of new enrollees. Clear bank’s tasks for vendor payments made in the bank’s credit card pay mode application. Perform merging and modification of the vendor supplier sites for Accounts Payable & Purchasing purposes. Reconcile and analyze quarterly activity to assist in a timely and accurate 1099 filing. Assist in the Oracle Holds Report reconciliation for the month end close. Prepare monthly closing entries and perform various account analyses. Manage and trouble shoot requests and inquiries from departments and vendors. Analyze/Review vendor statements to ensure past due invoice rectification. Audit and back up payables function. Manage various queues awaiting invoice processing and audit within Markview invoice imagining/workflow system. Develop and maintain other special projects and duties as assigned.
A bachelor’s degree is required (preferably in accounting). The individual must have good interpersonal skills. Prior knowledge of Oracle and Markview is preferred. Interested applicants may send their resume with cover letter and salary history/requirements to: accounting@amnh.org.
Senior Search: Curator, Professor, and Director of Comparative Biology Initiative
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York invites applications and nominations for an outstanding scholar at the Full Curator & Full Professor level with internationally-recognized research and leadership credentials, and demonstrated, ongoing high-impact research productivity and grantsmanship, to provide innovative leadership for a new museum-wide initiative in comparative biology. This initiative will incorporate the work of multiple investigators at the Museum and at collaborating institutions in genomics and phenomics (large-scale phenotypic analysis), aimed at understanding the evolution and relationships of organisms in ways that clarify and illuminate the architecture of life. The successful candidate for this position should show experience and interest in managing large–scale, interdisciplinary, collaborative, multi-institutional projects and is expected to qualify for and be appointed as a tenured full curator in either the Division of Invertebrate Zoology or Vertebrate Zoology, and as a full professor in the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the AMNH. We seek a creative, active, broad-based researcher and dynamic academic leader who interacts well with others and who will utilize the extensive resources the Museum has to offer in the way of collections, research instrumentation and laboratories, teaching and mentoring, exhibition, and public education.
We particularly seek applications from, or nominations of, candidates with a compelling vision for the future trajectory of their science, and for comparative biology in general, and whose research addresses fundamental, cross-disciplinary questions. In addition to the above-noted expectations for high productivity and grantsmanship, the successful candidate will have outstanding communication skills in engaging diverse communities and demonstrated capabilities in management of collaborative projects and decision-making. Experience in interacting with governmental and non-governmental agencies and in fundraising are highly desirable, as are collection-based, field-based and/or computational research. Other responsibilities or opportunities include advising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, offering courses in the Comparative Biology Ph.D. Program of the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, institutional service, development activities, and participating in Museum-sponsored exhibits and educational programs.
In addition to applications, we invite recommendations or nominations of potential candidates, and request that these include a resume and contact information for the nominee. Nominations or applications can be submitted to seniorcuratorsearch@amnh.org. Applicants should submit the following materials electronically, preferably as PDF files, via a single email message to seniorcuratorsearch@amnh.org (Subject line: Senior Curator IZ-VZ Search Committee: your name): 1) a cover letter in which you indicate your interest, experience, and qualifications for the position; 2) a curriculum vitae; 3) PDF files of up to five recent publications; and 4) names and contact information for five referees (to be contacted by the Museum only for the process of tenure review in the case of a pending appointment). Inquiries should be directed to John Flynn, Chair of the Search Committee and Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School: dean-rggs@amnh.org Applications or nominations should be received no later than May 10, 2013.
Vice President for Development
The Vice President for Development (VP) provides leadership and direction to the American Museum of Natural History’s individual and corporate fundraising efforts. The VP oversees the functions of Individual Major Gifts, Corporate Giving, Planned Giving, Membership, Special Events, and Research. In addition to possessing superior people management and development skills, the successful candidate must be hard working, genuinely collaborative, and have the gravitas and leadership presence to interact with high level donors, corporate leaders, scientific and academic luminaries, as well as curatorial, administrative, and Board leadership. Interested applicants should apply directly to Gerard Cattie (gerard.cattie@divsearch.com) with Diversified Search and/or call 212-542-2587.
Diversified Search
Attention: Gerard Cattie
275 Madison Avenue, Suite 1801
New York, NY 10016
www.diversifiedsearch.com
Main: 212-542-2587
Fax: 212-542-2574
Any resumes received directly at the American Museum of Natural History will be forwarded to Diversified Search for review.
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
The Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer is a new senior management position within the American Museum of Natural History responsible for the Museum’s Information Technology and Digital Media areas. The Senior Vice President will report to the President and oversee both the IT and Digital Media Departments. The officer will also participate in strategic planning for IT and Digital Media to drive and support the Museum’s science, education and exhibition mission, and its visitor services, finance, accounting, communications, marketing and human resources operations.
The position requires a minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant technology or strategy field. Seven to ten years of managerial experience with a preference for some of the work in not-for-profit or academic institutions. Additionally, the person should have exceptional planning, presentation, interpersonal skills, strong collaborative skills and the highest level of integrity; the ability and interest to stay current on new and innovative technologies; and the capacity to manage people and process at both the strategic and operational levels.
Interested applicants should forward application materials to: dscheiner@amnh.org
The American Museum of Natural History is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
The American Museum of Natural History does not solicit or accept applications or résumés unless it is for a specific job listed on this website. The American Museum of Natural History is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. The Museum encourages Women, Minorities, Persons with Disabilities, Vietnam Era and Disabled Veterans to apply. The Museum does not discriminate due to age, sex, religion, race, color, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other factor prohibited by law.
If special accommodations are needed in applying for a position, please call the Office of Human Resources.
Please be advised that due to the high volume of applicants, we are only able to contact those candidates whose skills and background best fit the needs of the open positions. If interested in any positions listed below, please send résumé, cover letter and salary requirements specifying vacancy to: hrdesk@amnh.org
Last updated: April 24, 2013