Jon and Linda Ender Chief Executive Officer and Director – Tucson Museum of Art, AZ

Jon and Linda Ender Chief Executive Officer and Director Tucson Museum of Art, AZ

The Current Situation and Opportunity

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The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block’s (TMA) mission is Connecting Art to Life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.

With TMA’s centennial celebration only two short years away, its vision for the future builds on its history of providing hundreds of thousands of adults and children with thought-provoking exhibitions and robust educational programs.

It is a particularly important time in the museum’s history and its newly engaged CEO and Director will play a critically important role in leading TMA into the future.

Over the past several years, a great deal of progress has been made at the museum. TMA has made significant investments in its physical property, emphasized sophisticated and diverse exhibitions, gained many quality acquisitions, and reimagined its community access programs.

These investments have attracted new and diverse audiences. Importantly, TMA is emerging from these past two pandemic years as a stronger and more stable institution.

However, TMA continues to deal with its share of challenges in three critical areas : (1) long-term financial sustainability, (2) clear institutional vision and (3) broad representation and inclusion of the diverse communities in Southern Arizona.

While progress has been made in each of these areas, long-term sustainability is THE most important area and will require specific focus and attention by the new CEO and Director.

The next CEO and Director will have the singular opportunity to partner with the Board of Trustees and staff to refine and realize TMA’s next chapter.

With guidance and support from a motivated and engaged Board of Trustees, the CEO and Director will be the prime mover in enhancing the museum’s profile to increase visibility and recognition in the community and among peer institutions.

The CEO and Director will guide the museum and its professional staff in pursuing its mission and assuring a sustainable future, garner support for the institution’s priorities including serving as chief fundraiser leading the museum’s development team, provide skillful oversight of its operations, and serve as a thought leader in planning exhibitions, publications, and programs that engage the local community and an expanding audience.

As the face of TMA, the CEO and Director will have the gravitas, enthusiasm, and ambition to develop and leverage a range of relationships locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The CEO and Director is also seen as the primary advocate for arts and culture in the community and speaks for the museum’s collections, exhibitions, connecting the public to arts and culture.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership : Provide leadership for the museum with respect to its storied history and creative vision for the future.

Fully embrace TMA’s commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) in order to position it as a responsive, community-centered institution that represents, activates and advocates for its communities.

Serve as an influential face and voice of the museum locally and in the regional and national arts, cultural, and museum communities.

Fundraising : Assess TMA’s current fundraising activities with an objective of evaluating effectiveness and identifying areas for additional focus and attention.

Provide leadership to the museum’s development team on identified areas of potential additional funding sources with a particular emphasis on creating new and varied local business partnerships, and actively support the implementation of creative and approved strategies for increased endowment funding and revenue augmentation.

Community and Audience Engagement : Serve as the primary spokesperson for the museum and advocate for the museum’s art collections and the importance of art and culture to the community.

Support current and explore additional and creative ways to engage younger people in varied activities at the museum.

• Artistic and Programmatic Leadership : Support TMA art collections with emphasis on the principal collections of Art in the American West, Contemporary Art, Indigenous Art, Latin American Art, and Modern Art.
• Management and Museum Operations : Develop and efficiently implement the annual operating plan and budget as approved by the Board of Trustees working closely with the staff to monitor and evaluate day-to-day effectiveness of the museum’s operations and align resources to fulfill strategic objectives.

Candidate Profile

• Expertise in Development and Fundraising : Demonstrated fundraising experience with a measurable track record of success as well as the expertise and mindset to build strong relationships with past, current, and new potential donors.
• External Relations and Relationship Building : Serving as a prominent ambassador for the museum with a genuine interest in making connections and becoming embedded in the community.
• Strategic and Visionary Leader : This person is a strategic thinker with the foresight, capacity, and experience to understand and balance complex and discrete needs and objectives.
• Mission Fit and Expertise : The leader will be an energetic advocate and champion for the museum with the intellect, experience, knowledge, and training to represent and elevate the museum within the region, among its peer group and in the broader cultural world.
• Demonstrated Business Approach and Operational Expertise : The CEO and Director will have a strong record of successful oversight and management of finance and operations.
• Credibility and Recognition : Highly regarded in the art museum world, the successful candidate will have standing with peer institutions in order to present the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block effectively and with gravitas to all appropriate constituents.
• Skilled and Inspirational Manager : At least fifteen years of experience in a relevant environment of which at least six are in an executive management capacity.

Compensation & Benefits The CEO and Director target compensation range is $165,000 $180,000 and will be based on experience level, including a generous benefits package, including relocation.

Contact Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement.

To express interest in this role please email Stephen directly at [email protected].

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