Job Description

Museum Operations Manager

The Peel Compton Foundation is a premiere and growing nonprofit organization, located in Bentonville, AR. The foundation owns and operates the Peel Museum & Botanical Garden, Compton Gardens & Arboretum, Coler Mountain Bike Preserve, and Osage Park. The uniting mission for these diverse properties is to connect the community through nature, education, recreation, and preservation. Peel Compton Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

You'll join a top-notch team and work in collaboration with the Museum Manager to oversee daily operations for the museum and museum store and assist with maintaining and researching the collection and docent/volunteer recruitment and training. This role is critical to the Peel Compton Foundation organization to support our growth and expand our impact.

General Responsibilities

• Assist with daily operations, tour coordination, and museum store operations.
• Engage with visitors and lead tours as needed.
• Manage the museum docent scheduling and support volunteer training opportunities.
• Perform routine housekeeping, IPM, and climate monitoring.
• Assist with exhibition installations and removal.
• Conduct research about the museum collection, Peel family and agricultural workforce, and early Bentonville history.

Operations

• Support the museum, cabin store and exhibit rooms to ensure they are well organized and cleaned.
• Contribute to the collections database and maintain accurate and useful accounting of all displayed and archived objects and materials.
• Nurture the volunteer and docent programs, implement quality controls for training and ongoing evaluation of visitor experience.
• Passionately communicate about the museum and exhibit rooms collections and history and the importance they play in the community and nation.
• Support the Director of Programming with educational programming content, instruction, and coordination as needed. This includes supporting the Foundation's annual programs like School Days to programs for smaller audiences.
• Must possess excellent research and writing skills.

Qualifications Required for Your Success

• Bachelor's degree in museum studies, history, or related content area and 2+ years of volunteer and tour management.
• The ideal candidate has experience communicating with the public in a museum and/or historic house setting.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• 1+ years' experience with collections management and object handling and rehousing.
• Key Skills: Detail Oriented, Communication, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Public Speaking and Presenting.

Additional Helpful Experience Includes

• Spanish, ASL, or other language skills.
• Volunteer management, particularly in a museum setting.
• Familiarity with photographing archival and museum objects.

Personal Attributes That Support Your Success

• You are helpful, a team player, and show respect while collaborating with others.
• You are results oriented and exercise sound judgment in your work.
• A lifelong learner, who is inquisitive and solves problems with bold thinking and innovation.
• A visionary who plans for the future with imagination and wisdom.
• You are dedicated to achieving excellence and working with others to tackle the tasks at hand.
• Demonstrated qualities of integrity, credibility, and dedication to the mission.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. If requested, reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects, tools, controls or machines; reach with hands and arms; speak; hear; stoop; kneel; and crouch. The Peel Compton Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building and maintaining a culturally diverse workplace. We encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status of protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

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