The Controller is responsible for overall financial and risk management activities of the Museum. They work as part of the Museum's leadership team and in cooperation with the Board of Port Wardens to ensure the financial health of the organization.

The Franklin Institute, the most visited museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, strives to be the world leader in promoting science and technology education and literacy through inspiring and engaging experiences that cultivate curiosity, critical thinking, and an understanding of the crucial role science plays in our lives.

Vintage Instruments seeks a retail shop associate to assist with customer care, retail shop support tasks, and basic fretted instrument maintenance (cleaning/restringing).  We are a retail business in center city Philadelphia specializing in acoustic music instruments.

Fleisher Art Memorial is seeking a full-time Visitor Services Coordinator to work 35 hours a week to support students, faculty members and visitors at our lobby entrance desks. The Visitor Services Manager serves as a friendly and professional ambassador for Fleisher, exemplifying qualities of reliability, quality customer service, organization, and efficiency to ensure that visitor’s needs are met with promptness and grace. This position has been recently updated to communicate Fleisher’s Community Health guidelines before allowing students and visitors to enter our building.

About Play On Philly

Play On Philly (POP) is a non-profit that provides daily, after-school music instruction to over 250 K-12 students. We work in communities that historically have had little or no access to formal music education. We are seeking Teaching Artists for our music center locations in West Philadelphia. 

Job Description

The Grants Officer (GO) is responsible for the Museum's relationships with all private foundations and government grant opportunities.  Experience preferred in writing major grants to private foundations, corporations and government agencies (Federal and State). The GO a skilled writer with strong organizational skills who researches, cultivates and stewards institutional funders, according to funder guidelines, deadlines and accepted best practices, to foster connections with the Museum. The GO maintains a yearly grant status calendar and oversees all aspects of grant-writing within the ISM. 

The Event Specialist is responsible for ensuring that rentals of museum facilities are executed in a superlative, safe and well managed way. This is achieved by providing extraordinary customer service for renters and their guests while also ensuring the safety of attendees and the museum’s resources.  The Event Specialist will serve as the point person for all events beginning with set up, continuing through the event itself and ending as the last person to leave the building following clean-up. During events, the ES will actively monitor all components to ensure adherence to Independence Seaport Museum rental policies.  This position will also entail a high degree of accuracy in the ordering and inventory of liquor.

The Museum Store Manager will ensure, either by their own actions or those of store employees/volunteers, a positive, knowledgeable and welcoming customer experience for Museum visitors.  The Museum Store Manager creates and implements merchandising strategies that complement the mission and programs of the Independence Seaport Museum and proactively supporting the shop’s daily operations. This position plays an integral role in achieving stores sales targets and meeting budgetary goals. A love of selling, merchandising, and exceptional customer relations are the ideal qualities for someone in this new role at Independence Seaport Museum.  

The Artistic Programming Intern will assist the Programming Department in meeting the individual and logistical needs of presented and independent artists.

Responsibilities may include: Data entry, scheduling assistance, helping with building maintenance and general upkeep issues, coordinate and follow up with facility needs. Fielding ticket and membership inquiry calls; assisting with front of house operations at venues; coordinating volunteers for events; other administrative support as needed.