The Cincinnati Art Museum has an immediate opening for a part-time Utility (BOH) / Line Cook employee in the Terrace Café and museum kitchen. This position will be scheduled for 15-25 hours per week. Evening and weekend availability is required.

 POSITION SUMMARY

The Utility (BOH) / Line Cook employee will assist the kitchen team in various capacities. Duties will consist of assisting the Chef, Line Cooks, Events & Hospitality Manager, Café Manager, and other kitchen team members with their daily tasks. A successful candidate will play a key role in contributing to our daily customer satisfaction goals.

The Utility (BOH) / Line Cook will prepare food for the café, cook in the café, cook for catered events, clean and sanitize all dishes, glassware, utensils, and pans; be responsible for maintaining the dish room and dish machine. Assist in cleaning other areas of the café as requested.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

General responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Proper operation of dish machines to company and manufacturer specifications.
• Wash and restock all dishes, glassware, utensils, pots, and pans.
• Segregate and remove trash and garbage and place it in designated containers.
• Break down, clean, and sanitize the dish machine at the end of a shift in compliance with ServSafe and other safety standards.
• Transfer supplies and equipment between storage and work areas.
• Assist in event setup as needed.
• Set up and stocking stations with all necessary supplies.
• Answer, report, and follow the Chef or Line Cooks’ instructions.
• Clean up the food stations and take care of leftover food.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• High school graduate or equivalent vocational training certificate required.
• A flexible schedule and the ability to work evenings and weekends are required. 
• A degree in or working towards a degree in culinary arts, hospitality, or restaurant management from an accredited culinary school is highly desired.
• Previous work in food service is a plus.
• Maintain a positive and professional approach with coworkers and customers.
• Frequently walking with some standing at times, possibly extended distances; ability to bend and climb stairs when necessary.
• Frequently lift/carry up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms in any direction and kneel and stoop repeatedly.

BENEFITS & COMP

• Hourly Pay Rate: $15.75
• Family-level museum membership
• Discounts in museum gift shop and café

TO APPLY

Apply for Utility (BOH) / Line Cook PT using the link below:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=347b7c9b-5aac-4d96-ab81-3b32a60f7052&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=600554&lang=en_US&source=CC2

The Cincinnati Art Museum is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where a variety of backgrounds, cultures, orientations, ideas, and talents can flourish.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Cincinnati Art Museum currently has an immediate opening for a full-time Custodian. This position includes benefits and is scheduled for 40 hours per week and will require availability for some nights and weekends. 

The Custodian will provide overall cleaning and sanitation of the museum building and assist in other functions, such as furniture moving, item pick-up and delivery to and from the museum warehouse, fulfilling special work orders, and set up and tear down museum events. This position works under direct and indirect supervision with a focus on maintaining the museum resulting in a clean, healthy, and safe indoor and outdoor environment for visitors and staff.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Job responsibilities describe the general nature of work for employees in this position, but this is not intended as an exclusive or all-inclusive inventory of all job functions.

• Perform general custodial duties, including cleaning and sanitation of restrooms, galleries, office areas, café, auditoriums, entrance plazas, courtyard, dock, hallways, stairs, and outside areas when used. Empty, clean and maintain trash cans.
• Transport, set-up, and tear down of event furniture and accessories. Remove trash and clean up after all events.
• Maintain floors by proper cleaning, including but not limited to vacuuming, dust mopping, damp mopping, waxing, and buffing all hard surface floors.
• Handle appropriate supplies and products for various job duties.
• Handle labor intensive work orders, including but not limited to furniture moving, pickups and deliveries for CAM departments.
• Handle outside pickups and deliveries using museum vehicles or rented equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• High school diploma and at least one year of experience in a related position, such as housekeeping, janitorial, or cleaning attendant, or combination of education and experience.
• Candidates must be able to efficiently manage their work hours and responsibilities, work well independently and as a team member, and effectively communicate with their supervisor and coworkers. 
• Attention to detail. Experience cleaning/maintaining/preserving a historical building a plus.
• To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Evening and weekend availability required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Custodian will be required to walk and move about the entire museum on foot, and work will include long periods of standing, and use of stairs as needed. Lifting and moving of items of moderate weight (at least 50 pounds) required.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Will generally be inside the museum location. May be required to perform certain aspects of assigned duties outside of museum location. May be subject to changes in work environment due to outside weather conditions.

BENEFITS & COMP

• Hourly Pay Rate: $17.10
• Medical, dental, vision life insurance, 401k retirement planning with company match
• Robust paid time off (PTO) and 9 paid holidays 
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Dependent care leave benefit
• Employee Assistance Program
• Family-level museum membership
• Discounts in museum gift shop and café 
• Professional development opportunities

TO APPLY

Apply for the Custodian position using the link below:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=347b7c9b-5aac-4d96-ab81-3b32a60f7052&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=600711&lang=en_US&source=CC2 

Position open until filled. No phone calls please.

The Cincinnati Art Museum is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where a variety of backgrounds, cultures, orientations, ideas, and talents can flourish.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Marketing Events Coordinator is responsible for leading, planning, and implementing fun and engaging events and other specified activities at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). The Marketing Events Coordinator works with marketing, special events, the Terrace Café, building & grounds, learning & interpretation, philanthropy departments and external vendors. 

The position is Monday-Friday and a combination of business and evening hours, mostly Thursday evenings and Friday evenings for Art After Dark.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES 

Reporting to the Director of Marketing & Communications, duties include but are not limited to:

• Lead Art After Dark, CAM’s monthly final Friday event, which occurs 10x/year (paused in November and December). Must be onsite during event set up, duration, and tear down.
  • Chair the interdepartmental Art After Dark committee, delegating various tasks but ultimately assuming responsibility for the events. 
• Create, lead, and implement NEW programming for CAM’s extended Thursday evening hours. At times, coordinate and work in conjunction with other departments, such as the café, on concurrent programs. Must be onsite during event duration.
• Help build, lead and implement CAM’s holiday program with support from interdepartmental holiday committee.
• Work alongside marketing department to plan, implement, and work at occasional events hosted by the department, such as media previews, and those produced in partnership with outside partners.
• Coordinate staff resources to support events, including but not limited to internal hospitality team.
• Work closely with colleagues in the marketing and design & dissemination departments to ensure events are properly promoted to the public.
• At times, assist onsite with marketing department’s photo- and video shoots. 
• Develop attendance goals for events and develop strategies to meet them.
• Manage budgets and ensure sound financial conditions of programs under your purview.
• Deliver post-event reporting.
• Must be available to work evening hours, as described above.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Education and experience equivalent to bachelor’s degree required with at least 2 years’ experience.
• Nonprofit experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven success planning and implementing events. 
• Excellent communication and people skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that values people who work well within a team as well as independently. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to organize/prioritize work, manage multiple tasks and shift priorities.
• Ability to take initiative, think strategically and creatively.
• Creative problem–solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot/respond quickly in demanding situations.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with museum colleagues and external vendors.
• Ability to operate a personal computer and various software programs.
• Ability to lift materials or equipment up to 50 pounds.
  
  

BENEFITS & COMP

• Annual salary: $44,000 - $46,000
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k retirement planning with company match.
• Robust paid time off (PTO) and 9 paid holidays 
•  Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Dependent care leave benefit
• Employee Assistance Program
• Family-level museum membership
• Discounts in museum gift shop and café
• Professional development opportunities

TO APPLY

Apply for Marketing Events Coordinator - FT using the link below: 

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=347b7c9b-5aac-4d96-ab81-3b32a60f7052&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=602526&lang=en_US&source=CC2

Position open until filled. No phone calls please.

The Cincinnati Art Museum is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where a variety of backgrounds, cultures, orientations, ideas, and talents can flourish.

The Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) seeks a highly motivated Curatorial Fellow for Prints. CAM stewards an encyclopedic collection of more than 73,000 works of art spanning 6,000 years. The Print Department is responsible for over 28,000 prints, posters and illustrated books from the 15th century to the present. Important areas of the collection include old master prints (e.g. Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Blake, and Francisco Goya); color lithographs (e.g. Toulouse- Lautrec, the Nabis, and an international cross section of mid-twentieth-century artists); Eastern European printmakers (e.g. Jiří Anderle and Vladimír Gažovic̆); Japanese prints (from ukiyo-e masters Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Kunisada through the sōsaku-hanga, e.g. Munakata Shikō, Kosaka Gajin, to contemporary artists, e.g. Ay-O, Shinoda Tōkō and Noda Tetsuya); and a strong cross section of American printmakers from the nineteenth century to the present, including James Abbott Whistler and a special focus on Cincinnati artists Frank Duveneck, Jim Dine, Thom Shaw and The Strobridge Lithographing Company posters.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Curatorial Fellow will work closely with the Curator of Prints on all aspects of the department’s work, including collections research, management, development and care, and departmental projects including exhibitions, publications and programming. The Curatorial Fellow collaborates with museum team members and external stakeholders to ensure the department’s projects and programs are administered in a timely and effective manner. The Curatorial Fellow will also have the opportunity to advance their own area of study by pursuing research projects stemming from their interests and expertise that intersect with CAM collections, which could lead to an exhibition, gallery installation, publication or program.

This position is full-time (35 hours per week), eligible for benefits and paid time off. This three-year Curatorial Fellowship will begin fall/winter 2026.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

Working under the direction of the Curator of Prints, duties include, but are not limited to: 

Collection Management and Development

• Working collaboratively with the museum’s Conservation, Registration, Design, Installation, Learning & Interpretation, Marketing, Photography, IT departments and others to ensure the proper care and presentation of the collection. 
• Working collaboratively with staff on projects to organize, rehouse, and rotate works of art in the permanent collections, including planning and coordinating duties. 
• Assisting the curator in the development, planning, and installation of temporary exhibitions and rotations within the permanent collections.
• Under the supervision of the curator, project managing gallery rotations, which includes scheduling and coordinating with the Design, Installation and Conservation departments, and contributing creatively to the thematic displays. 
• Facilitating incoming gifts and purchase considerations, including research and documentation, condition reports, and other cataloging duties assigned
• Supporting the curator, conservators, and registrars in the coordination of loans. 

Public Engagement and Donor Stewardship

• Interpreting and providing information on works in the collection through lectures, docent training, publications, and outreach activities.
• Working with the curator and appropriate museum departments to plan programs for and steward relationships with Friends of Prints affinity group, donors and patrons, artists, docents, and general museum audiences. 
• Organizing and administering appointments with external stakeholders to access the prints collection through the Fifth Third Study Room in the Carl M. Jacobs Study Center. 

Research, Departmental Support and Administration

• Researching and amending cataloguing information in the collections database, TMS. 
• Assisting the curator with organizing talks, lectures, scholarly symposia, study days and related programs as needed. 
• Conducting research on objects in the collection and on related topics in consultation with the curator. 
• Attending internal curatorial and exhibition planning meetings, and special events related to curatorial division activities.
• Serving as courier to oversee handling and transport of works of art to and from other borrowing institutions, as needed.
• Other special projects or departmental duties as assigned.

Exhibitions and Gallery Rotations

• Assisting in the development, planning, installation, and documentation of exhibitions, including research, maintaining checklists and work schedules, assisting with loan requests and contracts, corresponding with exhibited artists and their representatives and collectors, assisting the curator with publication projects, and archiving relevant digital and paper records.
• Researching, writing, and editing exhibition catalogs, labels and in-gallery text, online text, and other text for other outlets as assigned. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• MA in Art History or a closely related field, with a specializing and/or demonstrated interest in prints. ABD in a PhD program preferred. 
  • If the successful candidate is ABD, accommodation can be made to facilitate dissertation completion during the fellowship. 
• Minimum of 2 years of previous museum experience. 
• Knowledge of fine art prints and works on paper, including research, proper handling, display, and storage procedures.
• Proficiency in at least one European language, French or German preferred. 
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills with the ability to connect with varied audiences. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, and experience with (or the ability to quickly master) TMS, the museum’s collections management software. 
• Strong research and organizational skills; capacity to address simultaneous time-sensitive projects in a professional setting; ability to work both independently and in groups to achieve team goals.
• Valid and unexpired passport. Some domestic and international travel may be required. 

Physical Demands:

• Postholder will be required to walk and move about work locations on foot, reach and lift above shoulders, kneel, stand, sit, and use stairs as needed.
• Ability to lift and move items up to 40 lbs. as needed. 
• Normal color vision required.

BENEFITS & COMP

• Annual salary: $45,000 - $47,500
• Professional development stipend
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k retirement planning with company match.
• Robust paid time off (PTO) and 9 paid holidays
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Dependent care leave benefit
• Employee Assistance Program
• Family-level museum membership
• Discounts in museum gift shop and café

TO APPLY

Apply via the link below and please submit a cover letter, resume, a writing sample, and contact information for at least two references to:

https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=347b7c9b-5aac-4d96-ab81-3b32a60f7052&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=602789&lang=en_US&source=CC2

No phone calls please. Position open until filled. A first review of applications will begin Wednesday, September 23rd. 

The Cincinnati Art Museum is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where a variety of backgrounds, cultures, orientations, ideas, and talents can flourish.