# Associate Director, Curatorial Affairs & Collections - Library for the Performing Arts

**Company**: Nypl
**Location**: New York, New York
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Other

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## Description

The Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Collections is a key member of the LPA senior leadership team, providing high-level, strategic curatorial vision and overseeing the Curators of Dance, Music & Recorded Sound, and Theatre.

Responsibilities:

- Strategic Curatorial Leadership & Vision: Establish and drive an overarching curatorial strategy for LPA that bridges the Dance, Music & Recorded Sound, and Theatre divisions.

- Operations: Partner with Collection Development to streamline acquisition processes across special collections divisions, train curators on evolving processes, and oversee special collection acquisition budgets.

- Exhibitions, Research & Public Impact: Partner with Curators and the Public Programs & Exhibitions department to collaboratively steward interpretive projects.

- Fundraising & Resource Development: Identify and pursue grant opportunities and philanthropic support, and oversee the successful completion and reporting of grant-funded projects.

- External Relations and Communications: Serve as a spokesperson for LPA’s collections, representing the Library to the media, stakeholders, donors, the academic community, and the broader performing arts community.

Requirements:

- Advanced academic degree in the performing arts, humanities, library sciences, or related field; terminal degree preferred.

- Minimum 10 years experience at a collecting institution, including experience with acquisitions and collection development.

- 5-7 years of experience managing and mentoring high-level professionals, such as curators, faculty, or scholars.

- Experience with, exposure to, or participation in digitization projects, digital repository initiatives, or digital access workflows in a library, archive, or cultural institution.

## Skills

### Required
- Curatorial Diplomacy
- Strategy
- Management
- Team Leadership
- Digital Collections Awareness
- Fundraising

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