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Director of Strategic Initiatives, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg

Are you a skilled project manager looking for an opportunity to influence organizational direction, lead cross-functional teams, and design programs that support the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's (PHMC) mission?

PHMC is searching for a Director of Strategic Initiatives to play a key leadership role in shaping agency-wide initiatives, guiding complex projects, and driving strategic museum planning and program development. If you are an organized and innovative project manager with a passion for sharing Pennsylvania's History, apply today.

The Director of Strategic Initiatives supports the PHMC's Executive Office in developing complex agency programs and executing long-range strategies related to museum planning, interpretation, programming, facility utilization and collections preservation. As the Director of Strategic initiatives, you will perform the following duties:

• Statewide Representation: Represent PHMC across statewide initiatives, serving as liaison to inter-agency programs and councils, coordinating stakeholder engagements, and directing cross-bureau working groups
• Project Management: Manage large-scale, agency-wide projects by developing project charters, methodologies, schedules, benchmarks, and deliverable reviews while coordinating with department heads and external partners; monitor project budgets and execute special assignments for the Executive Director
• Strategic Leadership: Lead strategic initiatives such as sustainability planning, continuity of operations plans, marketing studies, culture and engagement assessments, and continuing-education seminars
• Industry Research: Research emerging industry trends and prepare recommendations for the Executive Office

Closing date: 11/10/26

Salary range: $69,086.00 - $104,959.00 Annually

To see a full job description and apply, please click here.
(Posted 10/22)

Architectural Consultant, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Ambridge

Do you have the architectural design, review, and technical consulting skills needed to provide long-range planning that will preserve historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC)? If so, consider joining this dynamic and diverse team within the Bureau of Management Services, Division of Architecture and Preservation in our responsibility for maintaining over 400 buildings in Pennsylvania. Apply today to put your passion for architecture and history to use, and become an essential member of our team.

Salary range: $78,925.00 - $119,844.00 Annually

Closing date: 10/27

To see a full job description and apply, please click here.
(Posted 10/19)

Stock Clerk 2, Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisburg

The Pennsylvania State Records Center is looking for a hardworking, skilled, and energetic person to perform clerical and manual duties involving the shipment, storage, receipt, and disposition of records maintained by the State Records Center for Commonwealth Agencies. The State Records Center is a safe, secure facility that holds 220,000 boxes of records for commonwealth agencies. We are a small staff that have pride in our work to assist agencies in a timely fashion. This is an entry level position. If you are interested in having a public service career in the most unique bureau the Commonwealth, please apply today.

Salary range: $36,831.00 - $54,162.00 Annually

Deadline to apply: 10/29/26

To see a full job description and apply, please click here.
(Posted 10/19)

Archival Intern, The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Harrisburg

The House Archives is seeking applicants for its 13-week paid internship, FT or PT. The deadline to apply is November 1.

Spring Semesters Requirements:

Be a second semester junior, a senior, or a graduate student
Attend a College or University in Pennsylvania or be a resident of Pennsylvania
Have at least a 3.0 GPA

Compensation: $12/hr

Please click here for more information.

Must complete an application and submit a resume, official college transcripts, and two letters of recommendation 
(Posted 10/19)

Events Coordinator, Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, Boyertown

Full time, 40 hour week, with possible overtime as needed.  Weekends required and occasional evenings.
Successful hire will be eligible for medical benefits and IRA match.

The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles seeks a highly motivated and organized person to plan and implement museum and rental events.

Qualifications
• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree is helpful but not necessary, or 3+ years of experience in a related field.
• Significant knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office Suite and Canva.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent customer service.
• Knowledge of Donor Perfect or similar CRM helpful but not necessary.
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively with staff members.
• Sensory Requirements include: Accurate Near Vision, Accurate Far Vision, Color Determination, Minimal Depth Perception, Moderate Hearing
• Must have valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License
• Background Clearances (FBI Criminal Clearance, PA State Police Background Check, and Child Abuse History Clearance)

Responsibilities
Museum Events:
• Coordinate the planning and implementation for museum events, including following and developing budgets, creating timelines, securing suitable insurances and contracts from vendors, purchasing supplies, and coordinating staff and volunteer needs
• Assist with procurement of business sponsors of events, and ensuring sponsor visibility and recognition
• Coordinate day of event details, including setup and breakdown  
Rental Events:
• Answer rental event inquiries and conduct showings of the space
• Ensure renters review and sign rental contracts, and make payments/deposits according to schedule
• Provide staff and volunteers with event setup and breakdown logistics
• Oversee event on day of, or cross train delegated staff person on event-specific logistics
• Provide monthly report to board tracking event rental income and volunteer hours
• Monitor and maintain event supplies
• Attend staff and appropriate committee meetings
Guest Services:
• Open and close Gallery 2 building for daily visitors
• Greet visitors and monitor Gallery 2 displays
• Provide coverage as needed in main museum lobby, including processing admission and gift shop purchases

Benefits
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Employer medical and IRA match
• Vacation and holidays
• Spousal/Dependent Health, Vision, and Dental insurance available

Salary range: $19-24/hr

Direct all resumes to:
Kendra Cook, Executive Director
kendra@boyertownmuseum.org
(Posted 10/19)

Executive Director, Histories Collaborative of Philadelphia, Philadelphia

About HCP and the Opportunity

The Histories Collaborative of Philadelphia (HCP) is an in-formation 501(c)(3) organization that is being established to serve as the unifying voice and coordinating backbone for Philadelphia's numerous history-related organizations, from major legacy institutions to grassroots community archives. HCP is best understood as civic infrastructure for the histories field, closer in spirit to a library system than to any single institution. Its impact will be dependent upon its persuasiveness, not statutory or authorized via other format. It works by convening peers and enabling distributed authorship, not by directing them. HCP is in its launch phase, transitioning from a fiscally sponsored initiative to an independent nonprofit. HCP seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative leader to serve as its inaugural Executive Director/Chief Collaborative Officer (ED/CCO). The ED/CCO will be the organization's first hire and may be its only executive for a meaningful period. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ED/CCO will be responsible for every dimension of organizational life: strategy, fundraising, stakeholder relations, communications, convening design, advocacy, technology, and administration. HCP sponsored an in-depth analysis of the city’s histories sector. Lord Cultural Resources was retained to undertake this assessment.

Strategic Context

• The national political environment has placed unprecedented pressure on federally funded cultural institutions including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and PBS, with real and growing threats to Philadelphia's histories sector;
• The 2026 Semiquincentennial and the Philadelphia Cultural Plan create immediate windows for elevating Philadelphia's history within public and philanthropic funding frameworks;
• The sector carries deep resource disparities between well-resourced legacy institutions and under-resourced community-based organizations, alongside genuine gaps in shared technology, digital infrastructure, and AI capacity; and
• HCP's model is deliberately lean, informed by other cultural advocacy organizations that have achievedoutsized impact on budgets under $300,000 and with minimal staff.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership, Governance, and Startup Execution: Guide HCP through its transition to independent 501(c)(3) status, including operating and financial systems, and governance formalization. Develop and implement HCP's inaugural strategic plan. In partnership with the Board, help recruit new directors when timely and design the working structure that makes Board service consequential. Under HCP's non-giving governance model, directors contribute network access, sectoral expertise, advocacy voice, and philanthropic introductions rather than personal capital, and the ED/CCO is responsible for tying those contributions to specific fundraising, advocacy, and sector-relationship goals.

Fundraising and Financial Sustainability: Design and execute a multi-pronged fundraising strategy focused on foundation grants, individual major donors, and earned revenue. Raise operating and program capital in ways that member organizations experience as additive to the field rather than extractive from it. Managing this perception, and the underlying reality behind it, represents the single sharpest risk to HCP's legitimacy. (A three- year, philanthropically funded campaign will provide a long ramp to sourcing new stable and reliable sources commencing in year four.)

Convening and Sector Engagement: Design and implement a tiered convening program including regular sector-wide gatherings, thematic working groups, neighborhood roundtables, and an annual Histories Summit aligned with Philadelphia Histories Month each April. Ensure convenings are accessible to organizations of all sizes, designing processes that resist capture by the largest organizations while actively cultivating participation from the smallest.

Advocacy and Public Affairs: Steward a shared advocacy agenda for the sector. Serve as its public representative in op-eds, City Council and State Legislative testimony, panels, and press. Actively represent the sector in the implementation of the Philadelphia Cultural Plan process and any follow-up to the 2026 Semiquincentennial. Build productive working relationships with Philadelphia City Council, the Mayor's Office, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and relevant state and federal agencies. Ensure that BIPOC-led organizations, immigrant communities, and neighborhood-based institutions are incorporated in the advocacy agenda.

Communications, Technology, and AI: Develop HCP's public voice with messaging discipline and brand stewardship. Lead HCP's internal technology decisions and help the sector identify and evaluate shared digital infrastructure. Approach artificial intelligence with informed curiosity, helping the sector navigate genuine opportunities (transcription, accessibility, discovery, community-facing interpretation) alongside genuine risks (bias in historical datasets, misattribution, pressure on practitioner labor).

Qualifications

• Demonstrated nonprofit leadership capacity or track record, including managing organizations or projects/programs with significant stakeholder complexity.
• Substantive content credibility within the histories field, whether from a curatorial, academic, archival, preservation, public history, comparable practitioner background or dedicated interest in Philadelphia history, sufficient to establish peer-to-peer credibility with member executive directors, curators, and neighborhood historians.
• Demonstrated capacity to effectively interact with foundations and to create competitive grant proposals, and the judgment to raise money in ways that enlarge rather than divert the sector's shared philanthropic capital.
• Trusted relationships across Philadelphia's civic, philanthropic, and cultural landscape, or clear evidence of the network-building instincts to develop them quickly.
• Experience building and sustaining coalitions across diverse stakeholders, including rooms in which the parties present hold very different levels of power, staff, and resources.
• A convener's temperament that finds genuine satisfaction in enabling other organizations' work rather than accumulating personal or institutional profile.
• Working literacy in current technology and artificial intelligence tools sufficient to lead sound decisions about HCP's own infrastructure and to represent the sector credibly.
• A genuine commitment to equity, grounded in substantive knowledge of the histories, practitioners, and community organizations of Black, Latino, Asian American, Indigenous, immigrant, LGBTQ+, working-class, and Philadelphians with disabilities.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including public speaking, editorial voice, and media engagement.
• Comfort in startup environments, able to set priorities, manage ambiguity, and build systems from scratch as a solo or near-solo professional with Board support.

Also valued: existing relationships within Philadelphia's histories, cultural heritage, arts, or civic sectors; prior experience leading a coalition, association, or sector-wide intermediary organization; experience navigating the intersection of cultural policy, public funding, and municipal or state government.

Leadership Profile

HCP's first ED/CCO will be a builder and a connector, energized by the challenge of creating something newand by the importance of what Philadelphia's histories represent for a city, a nation, and a contested culturalmoment. The ideal candidate brings:

• A convener's disposition: Someone who understands that HCP's authority is persuasive, not statutory, and whose instinct is to enable member organizations rather than to command or compete with them.
• A network mindset: Someone who understands that HCP's power lies in its relationships, and who leads through trust rather than authority.
• Entrepreneurial drive and strategic clarity: The initiative to identify opportunities and move quickly, paired with the discipline to focus a lean organization on the highest-leverage activities and resist doing too much too soon.
• A public advocacy voice: Comfort and skill in representing the sector in press, testimony, editorial boards, funder conversations, and community audiences.
• Cultural humility and Philadelphia pride: A genuine orientation toward listening, learning, and centering underserved voices, grounded in a love of this city, its neighborhoods, and the extraordinary stories it carries.

Education Level: 

Degree in history, public history, nonprofit management, public policy, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Gross compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience, expected to be in the $85,000-$95,000 range. HCP is committed to building an organization that reflects the geographic, cultural, and demographic diversity of the histories sector it serves. Candidates from communities historically underrepresented in cultural leadership are strongly encouraged to apply.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume or biography, and two writing or other relevant work samples (at least one demonstrating advocacy, fundraising, or public communications work) to Sam Katz at samkatz60@gmail.com by November 12, 2026.
(Posted 10/19)

PT Museum Services Associate, Pit Crew, Kamin Science Center, Pittsburgh

The Museum Services Associate, Pit Crew, supports the daily operations of an electric go-kart course, simulators, related exhibits, & ticketing while providing exceptional service to all guests. Pit Crew Members will be assigned to a variety of responsibilities. Those tasks include Track Marshal, Race Master, Simulator Operator, Greeter, Ticketing, etc.

$16/hr

Deadline to apply: 10/26

Please submit all application materials through the Carnegie Museum's Career Site. 
(Posted 9/28)

Sales Associate, Kamin Science Center, Pittsburgh

The Sales Associate is responsible for performing a variety of tasks related to the receiving, checking, displaying and selling merchandise in The Carnegie Museum Stores.

$16/hr

Deadline to apply: 10/24

Please submit all application materials through the Carnegie Museum's Career Site. 
(Posted 9/28)