Exhibit Developer

Job Description

Job Description

The Role
As Exhibition Developer at Liberty Science Center (LSC), you develop the concepts and content that drive dynamic, interactive exhibitions that interpret STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) concepts. You are an advocate for a diverse range of audiences that visit LSC, creating means of access to ideas and experiences that make science learning resonate. The responsibilities include collaborating effectively across teams to develop new projects and renew existing exhibitions for Liberty Science Center and supporting traveling and temporary exhibitions. The Exhibition Developer reports to the Vice President of Exhibitions.

What You’ll Bring
You are an experienced interpreter, with a passion for storytelling and scaffolding information and content for learners of all ages and stages. You have an insatiable curiosity about all things STEAM and are eager to learn and share. You can synthesize complex concepts into experiences, narratives, and environments that connect people to science topics through interactions, conversation, and shared experience in memorable ways. You are especially interested in new technologies, immersive experiences, and hands-on interactive exhibitions. You are empathetic and deeply interested in people as end users. You are a skilled researcher, an effective communicator, and a storyteller. Your sense of humor, flexibility, and generous nature makes you a valuable member of a collaborative team. A creative thinker, you are able to think big but can also focus on the details and easily navigate multiple projects. 

What You’ll Do

• Conceptualize and develop engaging exhibitions that represent the latest scientific research and understanding, lead to compelling experiences, and ensure the success of LSC’s informal education mission.

• Research educational, scientific, and technological content for exhibitions.

• Write and edit content and exhibition panel copy and multimedia scripts, etc.

• Conduct visual media research and negotiate visual media acquisition.

• Identify exhibition objectives and topics; write story lines and treatments.

• Work with external advisors, contractors and experts to help develop content, assure content accuracy, and other support.

• Serve as content development lead, as assigned, for all phases of exhibition. development, production, installation and post opening.

• Procure artifacts and in-kind donations when needed to support exhibitions.

• Coordinate with exhibit designers on the development of exhibit ideas and environments.

• Work with graphic designers and outside illustrators on preparation of interpretive and instructional graphics.

• Collaborate with multimedia designers on scripting and production of video and multimedia.

• Design and conduct exhibition prototyping and visitor evaluation studies.

• Review exhibition design drawings and graphics for content accuracy and oversees quality control through production.

• Prepares and provides project marketing content and presentations for prospective funders and other externals.

• Work closely with other Liberty Science Center staff as part of a cross-disciplinary exhibition team.

• Prepare and deliver oral and written presentations to communicate the projects to external partners. 

• Edit and/or write documents for other departments (Exhibit Operations, Marketing, STEM, website, External Affairs etc.) as needed.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities (KSAs)

• Excellent research capabilities

• Demonstrated experience interacting and interviewing a range of specialists, scientists, and field experts

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience designing and conducting visitor evaluations

• Demonstrated organization and project management skills across multiple simultaneous projects

• Work style that supports a collaborative work environment

• Innovative problem solving

• Knowledge of new technology, multimedia and film production is a plus.

• Proficiency with content management tools and software including MS word, Acrobat, PowerPoint, Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of exhibition development experience in a science museum, arts and culture center, or science journalism

• BA/BS (MA/MS preferred) degree in science, math, engineering, science education, social sciences or a field related to informal teaching and learning

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position manages interns, freelancers and external vendors on a per project basis.

Classification, Location & Schedule
This is an exempt position and is bonus and benefits eligible. All employees must be available to work a schedule that takes LSC business needs into consideration. The expectation is that this role will work five days per week in the office in Jersey City for the first three months, after which point a hybrid work schedule may be discussed with your manager. 

Physical & Environmental Considerations
An Exhibition Developer at LSC must be able to perform the following with or without reasonable accommodations.

• Prolonged Sedentary Work: Sit and use a computer for extended periods to research, wri