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Departmental Overview

Founded in 1901, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley is dedicated to the study of human cultures across time and geography. Our mission is to steward an expansive, diverse, and internationallyrenowned collection of objects to advance knowledge and understanding of cultural difference, creativity and innovation. As a university museum dedicated to research and teaching, we support scholarly inquiry, research, and engagement with communities, scholars, and the larger public.

Our internationallyknown museum collection includes over three million objects from around the world, extensive documents, photographs and film recordings. Major collections include ancient Egyptian artifacts, Andean pottery and textiles, Etruscan artifacts, and ethnographic objects from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania.

The Hearst Museum upholds repatriation as a core institutional value and a vital part of its ethical stewardship responsibilities. The Museum holds a significant number of North American ancestors and cultural objects that are eligible for repatriation under NAGPRA, CalNAGPRA, and the UC Office of the President's Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation Policy. While formal repatriation activities are coordinated through UC Berkeley's NAGPRA Program within the Office of the Chancellor, the Hearst Museum plays an active and ongoing role in supporting these efforts. The Museum works closely with the NAGPRA Program to coordinate, prioritize and facilitate resources and space to advance repatriation efforts, and to coordinate access to holdings for Native American communities under Duty of Care.

Position Description

The next Executive Director of the Museum will chart a strategic path that both acknowledges the Museum's colonial legacy and seeks opportunities for repair and healing. The executive director will continue to prioritize the partnership with the NAGPRA team while enhancing opportunities for research and teaching, expanding understanding of the collection, and working toward engagements with descendant communities and the broader public.

The Executive Director provides overall vision, leadership and management for the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Working closely with its council of faculty curators, the Museum's external Advisory Board, and with input from campus and community stakeholders and the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Executive Director is responsible for establishing and leading implementation of the overall strategic direction for the Museum, to ensure its sustainability and stability, and to develop and prioritize programming that supports the robust stewardship of, engagement with, and ethical use of its significant collections.

The Executive Director serves as an internal and external spokesperson for the Museum, fostering collaborations and encouraging study and engagement with the collections by a wide range of scholars, including descendant communities, and building relationships and opportunities for public and donor engagement. The Executive Director holds both leadership and management responsibility for the Museum, including supervision and direction of staff, overall stewardship of the collection, oversight of the physical resources of the Museum, and development/implementation of financial and fundraising plans to enable the Museum's priorities.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this role will be early December. This position will be open until filled.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Planning

• Provide overall vision and leadership for the Museum, ensuring the Museum's continued sustainability and impact as a research and educational institution in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally. Lead, consult, and contribute to conversations around museums and collections; synthesize and leverage these campus and national conversations into ideas and plans for the Museum moving forward. Serve as an effective advocate and spokesperson for the Museum on the campus, and in the community locally, nationally and internationally. Develop and maintain productive working relationships with UC faculty, administration and students, volunteers, donors and key community leaders and organizations.
• Develop and oversee implementation of a new strategic plan and direction for the Museum, in consultation with campus and community stakeholders and the Museum's advisory board and councils. Strategically guide the development of programs and activities in alignment with available resources. Pursue funding opportunities to experiment, and sustain successful programming. Align resources and staffing to support identified priorities.
• Serve the academic/museum mission by engaging with faculty to integrate the Museum into campus teaching and research initiatives; develop and oversee public programming and outreach strategies to increase the awareness of, and access to, the Museum's collections for campus and broader communities. Expand access to the collection for research and teaching; encourage projects that deepen the understanding and interpretation of the collection through physical and digital access.
• Establish short and longterm priorities and oversee planning for all operations and administration of the Museum. Establish and communicate policies and procedures that affect the Museum and its community.

Financial and Team Resource Management & Fundraising

• Develop, manage and oversee the Museum's $1.6M annual budget. Strengthen the overall financial stability of the organization through planning, budgeting, financial management and costeffective operations.
• Develop and lead a robust fundraising and grantwriting strategy to allow expansion of programming and support the sustainability, priorities, and goals of the Museum.
  Creatively identify and develop opportunities; collaborate with the Vice Chancellor for Research office, the campus development community and the Hearst Museum Advisory Board to raise funds for the Museum's ongoing work and special projects through extramural grant proposal writing and donor and foundation philanthropy.
• Hire, manage and develop staff through coaching, delegation, and mentorship. Address staffing gaps through filling of priority positions and clarification of realistic roles and scopes. Work with staff to rebuild and support a positive and collaborative team environment.
• Seek opportunities to improve and modernize facilities and infrastructure, including pursuing grant and philanthropic support, and expansion of digital access.

Stewardship of the Collection

• Ensure the development and preservation, robust access and stewardship, and ethical use of the Museum's extensive and complex collections. Creatively activate the collection to serve both its core purpose advanced research and study and its publicfacing educational mission.
• Seek funding to support continuous conservation and preservation of objects and archives. Supervise the exhibition, lending, conservation, storage and other specific tasks associated with the collections of the Museum. Prioritize and renew the collections through limited donations and acquisition, and/or strategic deaccessioning as deemed necessary, in concert with longterm strategic plans.
• Collaborate with UC Berkeley Government & Community Relations and the campus NAGPRA Program to ensure respectful and proper care of, and intentional and consistent support for repatriation of, Native American ancestors and cultural objects held in the Museum. Ensure regular and close communication and coordination of Museum and NAGPRA program activities, including loaning of space and staff resources. Consider opportunities for repatriation of cultural objects to other sovereign governments as appropriate; develop policies and practices to support respectful care and/or return.
• Ensure full compliance with national museum standards and UC policies regarding security, care and curation of all collections. Develop and oversee regular updates to Museum policies regarding collections management, disaster management, etc.
• As appropriate, seek to renew accreditation under the American Alliance of Museums (last reaccredited in 2018).

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