The Telfair Museums (Telfair) seeks a vibrant, strategic, and engaging leader to serve as its next executive director. This is an opportunity to lead a major cultural institution with a powerful connection to the community of Savannah and a national arts reputation. Telfair’s mission is to offer compelling expressions of visual culture – embracing three unique buildings and three distinct collections that bridge three centuries of art and architecture. The museum develops awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the arts and serves as a dynamic cultural center connecting people of all ages and backgrounds.

The executive director will build on the strong legacy of the Telfair Museums and continue its record of innovation to effectively tell the combined story of the three sites. They will guide the organization with a vision that amplifies Telfair as an essential community and cultural destination, charting a path that utilizes the Telfair Museum’s singular ability to engage the past, present, and future of art, history, and architecture. Working with the board of trustees, staff, and community stakeholders, the executive director will provide strategic vision, energetically and broadly engage the community and national peers, and serve as a persuasive advocate and spokesperson for the Telfair. This leader must be relational in their approach, civically engaged, embrace the social expectations of an important Savannahian leader, and possess the ability to develop sources of financial support for the Telfair’s strategic ambitions.

The Telfair Museums has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in the recruitment of its next Executive Director. Inquiries, nominations, referrals, and CVs with cover letters should be sent via the Isaacson, Miller website: https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/telfair-museums/executive-director  to the attention of Sarah James, Ryan Leichenauer, Siobhan Hanley.

The salary range is $275,000 – 325,000

Telfair Museums is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from candidates of any race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and/or any other legally protected status.