As the Rubin has transformed into a new global museum model with projects in New York City, nationally, and internationally, this is a key position to assist in advancing the Museum’s pioneering efforts to deepen, broaden, and increase support from major donors (giving $5,000 and above) and with institutional funders—foundations, corporations, government (local, state, and federal).
The Assistant Manager, Major Gifts & Institutional Philanthropy is part of a six-person development team that includes major gifts, institutional philanthropy, and annual fund and development operations.
The Assistant Manager, Major Gifts & Institutional Philanthropy will support fundraising, strategic initiatives, and general administrative duties for the major donor and institutional philanthropy efforts (both of which are the Rubin’s fundraising priorities). The position also assists with Rubin Trustees’ stewardship, and board and committee meetings.
The Assistant Manager will assist the Director of Development to manage two (2) board committees: Development & Marketing and Nominating & Governance and serves as a liaison between Development and all other museum departments and teams.
This is a full-time non-exempt and hybrid eligible position with a core workweek schedule of Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM with some flexibility required as needed.
The incumbent reports to the Development Director and works closely with the Senior Manager, Major Gifts and Manager, Institutional Philanthropy and collaborates across departments.
Interns receive a $600 monthly stipend from the museum. Academic requirements will be fulfilled by arrangement with the individual college or university.
The Rubin’s internship partners include:
*Studio Institute ARTS Interns are paid through the Studio Institute, and are not eligible for the Rubin stipend.
Rubin interns receive the following benefits:
The Apprentice Museum Educator (AME) program at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art provides practical skills to university students or recent graduates interested in future careers in the arts, specifically programming and museum education for school and family audiences. The AME will learn to work with a large age-range of visitors during their internship, and will develop the skills to manage an educational space with creativity. We foster critical thinking, leadership skills, curriculum planning, and public speaking.
The Collections Management Intern works closely with the Collections Manager, Registrar, and Department Administrator on several projects including object record updates within the collections database. The Collections Department is currently working on a large-scale file organization and digitization project. This position will be directly involved in this project, digitizing collections documents from historical exhibitions and assisting with ongoing data cleanup projects in the collections database (TMS). Interns will also have the opportunity to manage aspects of the library database (LibraryWorld) and learn about art storage and art handling procedures.
The Collections Management (Library Science) Intern will work closely with the Collections Manager, Registrar, and Coordinator on projects related to the organization, storage, cataloging, and maintenance of the Collections Management and Curatorial Libraries. Working hands-on with library materials, the intern will gain practical knowledge of institutional library operations and how these resources support collections documentation and curatorial research. The intern will also support a thorough review of citations within object records, working across the internal museum database as well as web-accessible object information.
The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art seeks a mature undergraduate, recent graduate, or graduate student to work under the guidance of Rubin curators. The Curatorial Intern will perform research and provide support for curatorial work and upcoming exhibitions that focus predominantly on Himalayan art and material culture.
The Editorial and Digital Content Intern will work with the Head of Digital Content and Strategy and the rest of the Editorial and Digital Content (EDC) team on projects across the Rubin’s various digital platforms. Major platforms include
Due to the high volume of applications for internships, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
In the event you are not accepted for an internship, we encourage you to resend your application materials for the following term.
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