390^th Memorial Museum Foundation

Position Title:  Graphic Arts and Electronic Communication Specialist

Reports To:  the Museum’s Executive Director

Hours: Part Time, 24 Hours/Week with Full Benefits

About Us

The 390^th Memorial Museum is located in Tucson, Arizona on the grounds of the Pima Air & Space Museum. The museum is a separate nonprofit organization from the Pima museum.

The 390^th museum has first-class exhibits, an impressive historic collections and archives, and a restored B-17 aircraft on indoor display. Over 110,000 people visit the museum every year. Please see www.390th.org to learn more about the museum and see if our mission and programs would be a good fit for you. Our workplace is collegial, respectful, collaborative, and supportive. Our team—Board, docents, and staff–is strongly dedicated to our mission and vision. We seek someone who will adopt this dedication for themselves.

Position Overview

We seek a talented individual with 21^st Century digital art and social media skills to collaborate with our senior staff to elevate the public profile of the museum and to better achieve our mission.

The energetic, creative, organized graphic arts specialist will play a key role in several important museum initiatives:

1. Assist our Director of Membership and Development in publishing our quarterly magazine, the Square J Bulletin, by creating new graphic artwork to support articles and content written by other staff members. Your generation of new artwork will also support improvements to our social media channels and website, as well as improvements to our printed fundraising, communications, and educational materials.

2. Work with our Director of Business and Operations to improve and grow the impact of our social media channels. Expanding the reach beyond current audiences is a priority. Reaching out to the operators of related social media networks to encourage the inclusion 390^th content is an essential task.

3. Receive content from senior staff members to continually update our website to improve its appearance and functionality.

Core Responsibilities

• Assist in redeveloping the museum’s website into an attractive, easy to use platform. Continually improve its appeal, functionality, and appearance.
• Partner with the Executive Director and senior staff to develop new graphic artwork—photos, images, animations, illustrations–for use in fundraising materials, advertisements, exhibit and building signage, gift shop products, and social media.
• Work to improve and generate new social media posts featuring the work of the museum, upcoming events, and our searchable archives.
• Diplomatically encourage operators of other social media channels to include features on the 390^th in their channels in order to significantly expand our reach to new audiences.
• Work with the archives and collections team to periodically post compelling stories related to items in our care on our website and social media channels.
• Bring awareness of best practices and current technology to our museum team.
• Other museum duties as assigned. All staff members routinely assist in tasks outside of their primary job descriptions in order to assure the smooth, safe operation of the museum.

Required Qualifications

This is a part time, 24-hour a week position. The ideal candidate will exhibit creative and analytical skills, excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills, and a strong teamwork ethic. The specialist must be able to take and abide by constructive criticism and follow instruction. Additional requirements include:

• A bachelor’s or two-year degree in graphic arts, art, communications, advertising, or closely related discipline.
• Demonstrable, strong skills in creative graphic arts generation. A portfolio of your work should be provided in advance or shown during the interview.
• Strong skills in image processing/improvement using Adobe Photoshop.
• Experience using and/or developing Web based tools including the use of social media to implement communications and marketing plans
• Skills in working with WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated web development tools to operate and improve the museum’s website.
• Experience working with video production software such as Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or comparable package.
• A minimum of three years’ related experience in a graphic arts, video, or communications position, preferably in a not-for-profit environment.
• Ability to reliably meet deadlines. Willingness to accept and follow direction and adhere to museum policies and procedures.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft 365 Suite, and with Social Media platforms.
• Consistent, reliable attendance to our onsite workplace.

Physical Requirements

Rare travel may be required. Most work primarily occurs within the museum.

• Ability to use common office equipment is required.
• Proper color vision and focus is required in the creation of new artwork.
• Ability to navigate the museum building and grounds to assist in the setup for media and special public events, such as moving chairs and tables is required.
• Ability to occasionally stand and walk for long periods when supporting the museum’s special public events.

The museum is a non-smoking, drug-free environment. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Compensation and Full Benefits

The museum provides medical, dental, and vision plans that the employee can elect to participate in or choose to decline. Cost for the plan(s) is split with the employee paying 20% of the premium, with the fees deducted from their biweekly pay. The starting wage for the position $20 to $21 per hour. The museum also provides a life insurance plan at no cost to the employee, and you may participate in a 401K retirement plan where you can elect to withhold a part of their pay into their personal retirement account.

Schedule

Your work week will consist of three workdays totaling 24 hours a week in the museum.

Application Instructions

1.Provide a persuasive cover letter that describes your experience and interest in this position, and clearly demonstrates your skills as a talented, creative communications professional and skilled digital artist.

2.Include a resume that illustrates your relevant experience to the requirements and activities of the position. In order to show your skills in graphic arts, please provide a link to your portfolio.

3.List at least three professional references along with telephone numbers and email addresses. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Send all materials to Bill Buckingham, Executive Director at wbuckingham@390th.org.

Applications missing any of the required materials will be rejected.