Jobs at Colby College

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.

Maintains college grounds through mowing, raking, planting, lawn and trail care, snow removal, tree maintenance, and athletic field upkeep. Supports campus events, moving, facility setups, and small improvement projects. Operates and performs basic maintenance on grounds equipment, responds to work orders and emergencies, supervises student workers, and follows safety procedures while working outdoors in varied weather conditions.

Supports endowment management through investment data management, portfolio analytics, reporting, investment research, and technology-driven process improvements. Develops automated workflows, dashboards, analytical models, performance reports, and data governance processes. Analyzes portfolio performance, investment managers, market trends, and prospective opportunities, presenting findings to Investment Office leadership. Collaborates on operational initiatives, supports reporting for committees and trustees, and provides technical guidance to interns.

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.

Develops and teaches inclusive, curriculum-based art lessons for K–12 students, families, and community participants at onsite and offsite programs. Leads hands-on art-making activities, connects studio work to gallery experiences, prepares materials, tracks program progress, maintains studio organization, collaborates with museum staff, and participates in training and outreach initiatives.

Leads Colby Athletics and Recreation fundraising strategy, overseeing major, principal, leadership, and annual gifts. Manages prospect pipelines, donor portfolios, solicitations, stewardship, philanthropic boards, events, communications, and two staff members. Partners with athletics leadership, coaches, alumni, families, volunteers, and advancement colleagues to increase fundraising participation and revenue. The role requires relationship building, strategic planning, staff management, travel, event attendance, and engagement outside normal working hours.

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.