Information about the organization

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a federally chartered, nonpartisan institution that was created by the US Congress to serve as America's national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and an educational institution dedicated to the history and lessons of the Holocaust. The Museum seeks to educate Americans from all 50 states and all walks of life as well as international audiences. The Museum has three areas of expertise: Holocaust remembrance, Holocaust scholarship and education, and genocide prevention.

In carrying out its important memorial and educational mission, the Museum is guided by its institutional values for our workplace: Honor the memory of the victims; carry out our work with dignity, humility, integrity and respect for others; and strive for excellence through teamwork, rigor, and a culture of continuous learning. Consistent respect for others is the foundation for trust, collegiality and inclusion.

Information about the role

This position is within the Campus Outreach Programs (COP) branch in the Academic Programs (AP) division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).

The mission of the Mandel Center is to strengthen and help shape the field of Holocaust studies through activities and programs that stimulate new research on Holocaust-related topics; encourage networking and cooperative endeavors among Holocaust scholars; and ensure the training of future Holocaust scholars.

COP builds and strengthens the field of Holocaust studies and ensure its long-term vitality by:

• Helping faculty across disciplines accurately and responsibly integrate the study of the Holocaust into their courses.
• Increasing and deepening engagement with Holocaust studies on campuses.
• Sustaining and growing networks of scholars and campuses throughout North America.

This role works in cooperation and coordination with other project and initiative directors across the institution involved in college campus work.

This is a full-time donated position (non-Federal) paid with the Museum's private funds. Salary is commensurate with experience.

This position is located in Washington, DC and is hybrid telework eligible, within the local commuting area of the Museum worksite.

Duties, and Responsibilities for the role

Strategic Thinking:

• Defines the mission, goals, strategies and approaches of COP in concert with the mission of goals of the division, the Mandel Center, and the Museum.
• Defines the strategies to achieve these goals and the approaches to measures their impact.
• Identifies metrics of success across the branch and designs strategies for collecting the data to support them.
• Monitors, collects, evaluates, and communicates relevant data and reporting findings regarding the impact of our work internally and externally.
• Aligns staff, activities, and resources to accomplish clearly-defined and measurable goals and outcomes.

Stakeholder Management:

• Leverages connections and opportunities between the work and goals of the branch and other branches across Mandel and the Museum.
• Manages key institutional relationships, including but not limited to, higher education and not for profit organizations, with diplomacy and consideration.
• Cultivates key external stakeholders such as universities, Museum donors, and others whose
• engagement is key to the branch's work.
• Balances risk management, prioritization of needs, and opportunities with multiple audiences in mind.

Expert Knowledge:

• Uses expert knowledge in Holocaust Studies and its relationship to the North American college landscape to determine which new trends are appropriate for the branch to pursue.
• Recommends responses or alternative approaches to challenges to the teaching and research of the Holocaust in this setting.

Supervisory and Management:

• Manages and supervises staff in a multi-layer structure.
• Facilitates employee growth by providing clear, specific performance-based feedback, and aligns staff roles with the goals and needs of the branch.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications for the role

• 3 - 5 years of management experience.
• PhD in a Holocaust studies-related field or similar degree with extensive work related to Holocaust teaching and curricula.
• At least 3 years of recent experience teaching a Holocaust-related course as the instructor of record at a college, university, or community college in North America, ideally on-campus.
• Advanced knowledge of, and experience in, the changing landscape of higher education as it relates
• to Holocaust studies.
• Expert knowledge of the higher education landscape and environment in North America.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated experience creating comprehensive, holistic approaches to the growth and development of Holocaust studies on the university level.
• Relationship builder who is skilled at addressing challenging, dynamic situations, listening for and understanding underlying concerns and root causes, and using a broad repertoire of coaching and management skills to build relationships. Skilled at managing up, down, and sideways (i.e., with peers).
• Effective and patient collaborator and leader in an environment that can require multiple reviews and matrixed communication with buy-in at many levels.
• Fluency in the overall field of Holocaust Studies within North America, and can clearly understand and articulate the challenges and opportunities that the Mandel Center and the Museum have to impact its growth and development on campus and within campus curricula, now and into the future.

Preferred Qualifications for the role

• Leadership experience in higher education and Holocaust studies, including but not limited to the university space as a department chair, program director, administrator, or center director at an institution that is under-resourced in Holocaust studies, or leadership in an organization that supports Holocaust studies in a variety of educational contexts within higher education.
• Supervisory experience in higher education or a higher education adjacent organization that includes managing the growth, development, and evaluation of direct reports.
• Demonstrated experience with donor stewardship and/or foundation relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with specific evaluation methods and analysis.
• Familiarity with the Mandel Center and its mission.

Interested applicants must send their resume and cover letter; applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

The application deadline for this position is June 16, 2024.

The Museum is committed to cultivating and maintaining a culture of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI). Please click here to view the Museum Statement on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion (PDF).

Benefits Highlights:

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum values employee wellness, work-life balance and the diversity of what this means for individual employees in life and work. We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package for benefits-eligible employees that includes generous paid leave benefits, health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, a health savings account with an employer contribution, 403(b) retirement plan with a generous employer match and contribution, group term and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability, commuter subsidy, access to two employee assistance programs, as well as voluntary critical illness and accident insurance coverage, long-term care and pet insurance options. Our policies also support telework and other flexible schedule options based on the job, work and team collaboration requirements.