Employment listings reflect openings across all five Strong Play Partners—the National Museum of Play, the National Toy Hall of Fame, the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, and the American Journal of Play.
Application process
After reviewing the available positions, candidates should enter The Strong’s online career center, provided through InfinityHR, and view the available positions. To apply for a position, simply select the position for which you would like to apply. Once the application has been successfully completed, candidates can revisit the site to check the status of their application simply by logging in using the user name and password they created.
Applying for positions via the career center website allows The Strong's Human Resources Team to receive and review your application materials in a more timely fashion than any other method of application. If you have any difficulty with the online career center, please send an email with resume attached to jobs@thestrong.org.
The application review process normally takes between two and four weeks to complete, and all applicants receive a response at the completion of the process. All candidates must consent to a criminal background check and drug screen.
Current Job Opportunities
Chief Development Officer
Job Type:
Full-time
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Strong seeks an experienced and energetic fundraising professional to build and lead a comprehensive institutional advancement team responsible for all aspects of development operations for an organization that has a vital and unique educational mission; widely publicized and nationally significant historical collections and programs; and an extraordinary array of community outreach services.
Because of the great strengths of The Strong, this position offers the successful candidate a unique opportunity to grow the institution’s development activities exponentially and to help the organization expand its educational mission and services even further.
Working closely with the President and CEO, the successful candidate will manage and be responsible for all aspects of The Strong’s institutional advancement activities, including but not limited to corporate and foundation giving, government grants, individual giving, planned giving, and special events.
The successful candidate must have demonstrated experience and skill required to develop and lead a dynamic individual giving program in particular, as building this capacity will be a major immediate and ongoing emphasis of The Strong’s institutional advancement operations.
The successful candidate must have superior oral and written communication skills, experience in and enthusiasm for working collaboratively in a team-based environment, capacity for strategic thinking and planning, and ability both to delegate and to lead by example.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4-6 years of fundraising and donor relations experience, preferably at a major cultural institution or university. Master’s degree preferred but superior experience may substitute.
- Excellent computer skills; Microsoft Office, including Excel, essential; familiarity and experience using Raiser’s Edge is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of and experience with modern constituency-building techniques.
- Commitment to quality guest service.
- Demonstrated ability to function in a highly collaborative, team-based environment.
Must consent to, and pass, a drug screen and criminal background check as conditions of employment. The Strong is a smoke-free campus and smoking is not allowed on museum property.
