•  MA in art history or related field required, PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of increasingly applied full time curatorial experience.
• Demonstrated excellence in conceiving and organizing successful exhibitions for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated knowledge in the museum’s collecting areas including American, Asian, European, and Modern & Contemporary art, with a focused specialization in one area.
• Proven ability to foster and encourage innovation around new models for partnering (both internally and externally), and for exploring new creative relationships with artists central to the CMA mission.
• Demonstrated experience developing, communicating, and managing projects, budgets, and goals.
• Effectively navigate through the complexity of key issues, challenges, and opportunities to affect actions; guide staff to proactively build and align stakeholders, capabilities, and resources to achieve institutional objectives.
• Proactively model the importance of timely collegial interaction, personal accountability, maturity, professionalism, communication, and exchange across disciplinary boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience in donor cultivation and stewardship.
• Self-directed and motivated.
• Work with curatorial team to ensure care and conservation of works.
• Mastery of English language and the ability to plan and deliver oral and written communications that make an impact, persuade, and inform their intended audiences.
• Experience handling art.
• Knowledge of research tools and methodologies.
• Monthly evening and weekend time and occasional travel.
• This position requires a criminal background check.

Skills and Abilities:

Be a positive, confident employee and an advocate for the museum. Interact with people from all backgrounds in a clear, courteous, and respectful way. Be a highly motivated team player who is enthusiastic and proactive, and who thrives in a very fast-paced environment. Be creative, innovative, agile, and vibrant. Possess a strong sense of urgency, priority, and follow-through. Maintain a consistently professional appearance. Work independently, anticipate needs, and manage multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously. Be able to work collegially with staff across departments to achieve common objectives. Discretion and sound judgment are required. Maintain the highest professional and ethical standards.