Jobs, Interns, and Volunteers
The Museum looks for enthusiastic, energetic, and professional individuals to be part of our team through a variety of opportunities including permanent staff positions, grant-funded positions, internships and volunteer positions.
The Museum is committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as New York City and the audiences who are curious about learning more about its history and engaging in contemporary urban issues. Our staff members are dedicated to working towards a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring city museum in the world.
The Museum of the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. As such, the Museum provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without unlawful discrimination with respect to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender identification, marital status, military status or veteran, national origin, political association, political/personal convictions, predisposing genetic characteristics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, geographic location, philosophies, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local laws, in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-off, and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria including training, experience, and suitability.
Jobs
Director, Marketing and Communications
The overriding mission of the position of the Director, Marketing and Communications is to stimulate awareness of and visitorship to the Museum via various tactics—including, but not limited to, marketing; paid, owned, and earned media; press; branding; etc.—to reach target audiences in the city, region, nation, and around the world. The ideal candidate is a creative leader who will develop and implement new, diverse strategies to engage and expand audiences. This full-time, exempt position, reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer, serves on the senior staff team, and supervises two full-time staff members plus consultants.
Museum Educator
The overriding mission of the position of the Director, Marketing and Communications is to stimulate awareness of and visitorship to the Museum via various tactics—including, but not limited to, marketing; paid, owned, and earned media; press; branding; etc.—to reach target audiences in the city, region, nation, and around the world. The ideal candidate is a creative leader who will develop and implement new, diverse strategies to engage and expand audiences. This full-time, exempt position, reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer, serves on the senior staff team, and supervises two full-time staff members plus consultants.
Internships
The Museum does not currently have any internship opportunities available at this time.
Volunteers
Primary Volunteer Positions are located at the Main Entrance Greeter Desk. Volunteers will be assigned a regular weekly two-hour time slot. Preference is given to those available on weekends. Some volunteers will initially be trained only as substitutes. Volunteers who have at least one year of experience at the Greeter Desk may apply to be trained as Docents to give exhibition tours to visitors.
Please click here to fill out the primary application.
**Volunteer applications are closed at the moment; all new applicants will be placed on waitlist**
How To Apply
Jobs
To apply for an open full-time or part-time position, qualified individuals can send their resume with cover letter and salary range to the attention of Human Resources at jobs@mcny.org (preferred method) or mail to Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029.
Fellowships
To apply for a fellowship, please submit the requested materials to the contact person as listed in the full job description above.
