Job: Mgr of Creative Media Design & Development (The Children's Museum of Indianapolis)

Manager of Creative Media Design & Development

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis the world's biggest and best children's museum!

To apply, please fill out an online application at www.ChildrensMuseum.org. 

Reports to:  Chief Technology Officer

OVERVIEW: 

The Manager of Creative Media Design & Development is a hands-on management position responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of gallery creative media to drive significant new and repeat visitation to the museum and to enhance the visitor experience.   Gallery creative media includes gallery computer interactives and gallery-related websites.  This position functions in a hands-on capacity designing and developing creative media and has management responsibility for the oversight of the gallery computer interactives and gallery website design/development staff.  The creative media developed must meet the intent of the gallery, must have outstanding educational value and must utilize sound instructional technology precepts.   The creative media must be highly appealing to the museum target audience.

This position has dotted line reporting responsibilities to the Vice President of Exhibit Development and Family Learning and must collaborate closely with the Exhibit Development and Family Learning departments of the museum and the Integrated Information Technology (IIT) staff.  

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:           

1. With the CTO and the Vice President of Exhibit Development and Family Learning, is accountable for the development and implementation of gallery creative media.
2. Track, report, and attain excellence in a variety of key indicators of success and metric categories including visitor satisfaction with family learning in gallery creative media and websites, completion rate of visitor use of gallery interactives, effectiveness of gallery creative media as it relates to the mission of the gallery, and growth in Museum attendance (new, repeat, member, free/other) attributable to the Museum’s gallery creative media and web sites.
3. Hands-on design, development, implementation, and maintenance of gallery creative media and gallery-related websites. 
4. Management of a staff of creative media designers/developers. 
5. Function as project manager of the IIT exhibit development effort.  The IIT development effort includes functions and IIT staff not reporting directly to this position, including sound, videography, lighting, computing infrastructure, and social media resources and functions. 
6. Procurement and management of outside creative media contractors. 
7. Close collaboration with the Exhibit Development, Family Learning, and IIT staffs. on conceptual, intellectual and artistic development of technology components/activities for galleries and the museum website. 
8. Generation of technology ideas and options for cutting edge gallery creative media. 
9. Definition, recommendation, and implementation of beneficial changes to the creative media design and development methodology. 
10. Creation and presentation for approval of creative media designs, storyboards and prototypes. 
11. Participation in the design, development, and maintenance of museum websites as a secondary responsibility as directed by the Chief Technology Officer.  
12. Functions as a member of the IIT management team.

 REQUIREMENTS: 

1. Bachelor’s degree required in the field of instructional design, educational media/curriculum development, computer technology or related field.  Master’s degree in instructional design preferred. 
2. Minimum of five years experience in graphic design and design and development of   creative media utilizing instructional technology.  Strong K-12 educational technology expertise.
3. Minimum 5 years experience in managing a technical team.
4. Strong technical skills with proven expertise in exhibit media and web development technologies, including but not limited to, Flash, CSS, action scripts, PHP, AJAX, and 3-D design/animation.
5. Strong instructional design and graphic design skills with proven expertise.

1. Strong supervisory, organizational and project management skills.
2. The ability to communicate ideas and opportunities with staff and others through excellent oral and written communications.
3. Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with teams on conceptual, intellectual and artistic development of technology components/activities for galleries and the museum website.
4. The ability to work effectively with and effectively manage outside contractors.
5. Appreciation and respect for confidentiality of information.