Associate Director, Communications

• Equity: We acknowledge injustices in our society and take responsibility for challenging them.
• We hold ourselves accountable and strive to repair harm and invite healing with openness and humility.
• Courage: We take risks, experiment, and explore with curiosity and a commitment to growth.
• Collaboration: We partner in reciprocity with community to catalyze dialogue and elevate stories, movements and creative expressions that shape our world. 
• Belonging: We aspire to be a gathering place where everyone feels welcome. We foster connection with family, community, and the natural world to which we all belong.
• Inspiration: We celebrate art and culture that broaden the imagination. Our museum and garden spark contemplation, wonder and joy.

We inspire understanding and empathy with stories and experiences of California’s art, history, and natural environment to build more equitable and connected communities.

We envision a just and vibrant future where our communities value and honor one another and the world around us.

The Associate Director, Communications develops institutional communications strategies and manages communications projects including: publicity efforts for all exhibitions, programs, events, and institutional needs; press previews; writing press releases and materials; cultivating media relationships and pitching press coverage; managing on-site media production crews; and working with marketing on event and press photography to support OMCA’s photo asset needs. The Associate Director, Communications leads cross-functional communications strategies and meetings, including forecast planning for communications workflows and meetings between executive leadership and other departments.

• →Support the Museum’s mission, values, vision, and core commitment to the visitor experience, community engagement, and institutional relevancy for the future
• →Contribute to and support the OMCA strategic plan, annual priorities, and institutional initiatives such as diversity advancement
• →Contribute to a positive organizational culture based on mutual respect, a spirit of collegiality, cooperation, and openness to many perspectives
• →Participate in a culture of ongoing learning, collaboration, innovation, creativity, and community engagement
• →All positions will have core functional responsibilities, cross functional team activation and learning and development as a core function of each role.

• →7+ years of related experience.
• →3 years supervisory/lead experience.
• →English language proficiency in both spoken and written form; a second language (particularly Spanish or Chinese) desirable.
• →Knowledge of media relations tactics and strategy.
• →Ability to deliver results, facilitate and influence others and problem solve beyond temporary solutions.
• →Proficiency in computer systems, specifically MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and FileMaker), knowledge of Drupal preferred.
• →Proficiency in Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge).
• →Experience with project management software, eg. Asana.