Balboa Park Online Collaborative seeks Director

We are seeking an innovative technical manager of a LAMP environment with museum and/or performing arts organization experience and a vision for expanding Web services to lead a web team in San Diego that will work closely with the Web staffs of 17 institutions in Balboa Park.

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) is a newly formed organization, funded for initial three year period, with goals to create efficiencies, provide in-service training and consulting, and expand functions of the Web within each member institution. Initial working group projects involving 3-10 institutions each, include shared connectivity and hosting infrastructure; Intranet; shopping cart functions serving membership, development, events and stores; collections digitization and public access; course registration; ticketing and archiving. Incumbent would assemble and lead a consulting team to assist the Working Groups to achieve their objectives, to support a shared CMS (Drupal) and to provide and/or contract for in-service training programs.

Incumbent reports to the Foundation funding the project and to an Advisory Committee consisting of the Executive Directors of participating institutions.
Technical, political and leadership skills are of equal importance. Salary and benefits competitive, commensurate with experience. Starting ASAP.

For further information, including background report describing the newly formed Balboa Park Online Collaborative, and to apply, contact David Bearman <dbear@archimuse.com> who is coordinating the search.