Career Opportunity

Curator II - Museum - SFO (3542)

Recruitment: RTF0157393-01156732

Published: June 26, 2025

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About:

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Established in 1980 by the Airport Commission, SFO Museum’s mission is to delight, engage, and inspire a global audience with programming on a broad range of subjects; to collect, preserve, interpret, and share the history of commercial aviation; and to enrich the public experience at San Francisco International Airport. The Museum has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1999 and retains the distinction of being the only accredited museum in an airport. The Museum operates more than twenty-five sites throughout the Airport terminals, including fourteen galleries that exhibit a rotating schedule of art, history, photography, science, and cultural exhibitions. Among the sites is the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, which houses a permanent collection of more than 150,000 objects related to the history of commercial aviation. For additional information about SFO Museum, please visit www.sfomuseum.org.

Role description

Curator II Assistant Curator of Graphic Design (SFO) (157394)

Specific information regarding this recruitment process are listed below:

• Application Opening: Thursday, June 26th, 2025
• Application Deadline: This job announcement may close at any time after 5:00 p.m. PT on July 11th, 2025; interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
• Compensation Range: $93,782- $114,088
• Fill Type: Permanent Exempt (PEX)
• Hours: Full-time
• Recruitment ID:  PEX-3542-157394 (RTF0157393-01156732)
• Appointment Type: Permanent Exempt, Category 14: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. 

3542 Curator II, Assistant Curator of Graphic Design

Under direction from the 3546 Head of Graphic Design, the PEX 3542 Assistant Curator of Graphic Design assists with the planning, organization, and execution of graphic design materials supporting SFO Museum’s extensive exhibition schedule. This position creates and coordinates graphic content, ensures adherence to established design standards, maintains and develops the SFO Museum website, and serves as a liaison between the Museum’s Graphics Team and Airport-wide graphics initiatives.

As a team member of SFO, you will embrace SFO’s core values and SFO’s Racial Equity Action Plan.

Duties will include but will not be limited to:

1. Collaborates with curators and other staff to meet goals, objectives, and priorities of the Museum’s Exhibition schedule;
2. Designs and produces all visual materials including graphics, signage, murals, labels, and brochures for over 20 annual exhibitions and 10–15 accompanying print publications, ensuring alignment with the exhibition schedule;
3. Develops, improves, and maintains SFO’s Museum website to promote public awareness and draw interest in the Museum by working with other Curators and staff in selection of appropriate images to accompany the text and enhancing procedures and processes, including the coordination of the interface between the Museum’s and Airport’s websites;
4. Expands the SFO Museum brand visibility through graphics, signage, and video while maintaining the Museum’s aesthetic and professional standards and assists in the development and implementation of the SFO Museum brand guidelines;
5. Designs and implements digital content that comply with ADA accessibility standards;
6. Obtains price quotes and prepares and finalizes contractual agreements with printing companies for graphic production;
7. Prepares and compiles necessary documents in securing funding requisitions in accordance with Accounting and Controller expenditure standards;
8. Prepares press kits for all exhibitions;
9. Collaborates with the Assistant Curator of Public Engagement to promote programs through social media, email campaigns, and print media;
10. Serves as a liaison for Airport-wide graphic initiatives, ensuring brand alignment and high design standards;
11. Supervises interns at the discretion of the Head of Graphic Design;
12. Performs other functions and related projects as assigned and related to the 3542 Curator II.

How to qualify

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in the fine arts, art history, decorative arts, design, history, library science, museum studies, natural history, science, technology, or other closely related disciplines.

Experience:  Three (3) years of museum experience.

Desirable Qualifications:

1. Experience with website design and management;
2. Experience with the design and production of printed materials such as exhibition brochures and catalogues, promotional material, and stationery;
3. Experience with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Bridge, and After Effects;
4. Excellent abilities with HTML and Drupal, or similar CMS;
5. Excellent abilities with the Mac platform and products;
6. Experience with planning and organizing multiple projects.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

One year full-time employment is equivalent to 2,000 hours (2,000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40 hour work week). Any overtime hours that you work above 40 hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.

Verification:  Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements .

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training, and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline.

Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

Selection Procedures:  The selection process will include evaluation of applications in relation to minimum requirements.  Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement to interview.  Depending on the number of applicants, the Department may establish and implement additional screening mechanisms to comparatively evaluate the qualifications of candidates.  If this becomes necessary, only those applicants whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the Department will be invited for an interview.

NOTE:  Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement through all of the steps in the selection procedure.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Security Clearance:  Candidates for employment with the San Francisco Airport Commission are required to undergo a criminal history record check, including FBI fingerprints, and Security Threat Assessment in order to determine eligibility for security clearance and may be required to undergo drug/alcohol screening. Per Civil Service Commission Rule Section 110.9.1, every applicant for an examination must possess and maintain the qualifications required by law and by the examination announcement for the examination. Failure to obtain and maintain security clearance may be basis for termination from employment with the Airport Commission.

What else should I know?

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY

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• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Recruitment Analyst Information:  If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact Ben Cen at lebin.cen@flysfo.com or (650) 821-2076.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.