Jobs at Colby College

Advise students and alumni pursuing financial services and consulting careers, providing industry-specific coaching, recruiting preparation, networking support, workshops, and employer connections. Manage a student portfolio through career and life design advising, develop programming and resources, support student organizations, assess outcomes, and collaborate with faculty, alumni, employers, and campus partners to expand experiential learning and employment opportunities.

Welcomes and assists museum visitors, monitors gallery activity, enforces safety and security protocols, responds to incidents, and supports exhibitions, educational programs, tours, workshops, and events. Coordinates with building management, museum staff, community partners, speakers, and school groups. Maintains supplies, tracks visitor data, completes administrative tasks and reports, and uses software and registration tools. This part-time role requires evening and weekend availability, strong communication, organization, adaptability, and customer service skills.

Leads institution-wide strategic initiatives and planning processes for the President’s Office. Responsibilities include coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, conducting research and analysis, developing recommendations and executive materials, managing strategic project timelines, and pursuing foundation and government funding. The Director collaborates with senior leadership, campus communities, external partners, and governing boards to translate institutional priorities into action.

Steward employer, alumni, parent, and community partnerships to expand student externship, internship, research, immersion, and employment opportunities. Manage recruiting and educational events, workshops, campaigns, job postings, stakeholder engagement, and event outcomes. Maintain partnership and student-success data in career platforms, oversee departmental systems, coordinate internship-for-credit approvals, and support student professional development. The role requires strong communication, organization, relationship management, technology proficiency, and at least five years of related experience.

Creates, shoots, edits, and publishes short-form video and visual content across social platforms to promote the College. Manages content strategy, scheduling, copywriting, audience engagement, analytics, reporting, social listening, and reputation monitoring. Collaborates with campus departments and communications teams, covers events, manages an email newsletter, and supervises student content workers while ensuring brand, accessibility, privacy, copyright, and editorial compliance.

Attend Colby College’s 2026 job fair to learn about campus job openings and the hiring process, connect with hiring managers, and explore employment opportunities within the college and surrounding community.

Leads the Prospect Research and Analysis team supporting college advancement and fundraising strategy. Oversees prospect identification, data validation, research methodologies, deep-dive analysis, intelligence gathering, visualization, reporting, and briefing materials. Develops actionable recommendations, expands donor prospect pools, forecasts trends, improves research processes, and manages cross-functional initiatives. Supervises staff, partners with senior administration and fundraising leadership, and promotes data integrity, confidentiality, innovation, and collaboration.

Coordinates museum communications and marketing across websites, social media, email, media relations, and print and digital materials. Maintains digital platforms, schedules and publishes content, manages email lists and campaigns, coordinates vendors and project timelines, tracks engagement metrics, supports press activities, and assists with supervising a communications intern. Collaborates across Museum and College departments to promote exhibitions, programs, collections, and institutional initiatives.

The Gallery Educator designs and leads arts-integrated gallery experiences, tours, workshops, virtual programs, and school art activities for K-12 students and educators. Responsibilities include coordinating museum visit logistics, conducting research on artists and exhibitions, supporting educational programs, collecting participant feedback, completing documentation, and attending training. The role requires strong communication, adaptability, attention to detail, and occasional evening or weekend availability.

Lead the Colby College Museum of Art as its visionary, collaborative Director. Responsibilities include advancing the Museum’s national profile, strengthening relationships with students, faculty, trustees, donors, artists, collectors, and community members, expanding partnerships with major museums and academic institutions, and guiding the Museum’s growth and interdisciplinary impact within the College and broader art community.

Raises leadership gifts and sponsorships for the museum, manages a 100+ household donor portfolio, and leads Friends of Art annual giving. Develops solicitation, engagement, communications, events, stewardship, gift acknowledgment, and donor pipeline strategies. Conducts donor research, tracks fundraising goals, collaborates with advancement and museum teams, and serves as a liaison to museum leadership, staff, and board members.

Coordinates academic records, curriculum setup, registration processes, data validation, reporting, and student information system support. Maintains confidential records under FERPA, performs quality assurance, assists with system testing and process improvements, documents procedures, and responds to student, faculty, and staff inquiries. The role also provides cross-functional Registrar’s Office coverage and requires accuracy, discretion, analytical ability, strong communication, and effective deadline management.