Job opening: Executive Director

The Havre de Grace Martime Museum and Environmental Center (the Museum) is accepting applications for an opening as a part-time executive director (21 hours per week).  We are seeking an environmental professional and dedicated educator / interpreter with strong writing, organizational, and inter-personal skills and fund raising and grant writing experience.
  
The museum, located on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay is embarking on an expanded mission to create an environmental center in 3,000 square feet of classroom, laboratory and exhibit space.  The position of executive director has been vacant for almost one-year as the Board of Directors reorganized the museum and developed new strategic and business plans.  The museum is now run by volunteers and part-time staff.  The executive director will work with the museum president and the board to manage the museum and will largely focus on standing up the environmental center.

Qualifications

Required:  B.S. in the environmental sciences or management or M.S. in related field.

Three  years of practical experience in three or more of the following areas:  environmental education through hands on field study and research and classroom and group lectures; sustainable development, including but not limited to conservation practices; public involvement and  awareness; developing of  educational materials and programs, exhibits and interactive displays that focus on the natural history and environmental health issues of the Lower Susquehanna and Upper Chesapeake Bay watershed; and working in partnership with other organizations.

The preferred candidate will live within 30 miles of the museum and will have experience working in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

For those selected for interview we will request an official transcript of all degrees and copies of professional training and education certificates.  We will also ask for three letters of reference.

Application

Send a letter of interest / application and resume to:

Bruce Russell, President

Havre de Grace Maritime Museum

100 Lafayette St

Havre de Grace, MD 21078

Applications must be received not later than January 17, 2014.