Location: Washington, DC
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 5+ years
Compensation: $76,000–$80,000
How You’ll Contribute
The National Geographic Society headquarters, based in Washington, D.C., is undergoing a significant renovation project on its campus (called the Museum of Exploration), which will be completed in 2026. Components of the new guest experience will include a state-of-the-art pavilion entrance, auditorium, iconic photo gallery, exhibition space, immersive walk-through attraction, retail, food and beverage, education center, archives, tours, and exciting new event space. Reporting into the project management division of the Exhibitions team, the Project Manager will be a part of the team responsible for National Geographic Society’s traveling exhibits program and the $350 million renovation project of the NGS headquarters in Washington, D.C., into a new public experience proposed to open in 2026. The Project Manager will contribute to the timeline, budget, schedule, and communications for internal teams’ and vendors to manage the creative development, fabrication + production, installation and remediation of exhibits for the Museum of Exploration and travelling exhibitions program. This is a fixed term role through August 2026.
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Your Impact Responsibilities Include Project Management (60%)
Manage concurrent projects with a variety of stakeholders, sets expectations, estimates scope, assigns tasks, obtains buy-in from team and leadership, ensures follow up and completion of work.
Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget by developing and maintaining clear and detailed project schedules and budgets that have up-to-date estimates, costs, milestones and timelines.
Define scope of work, vendor acquisition and manages the awarding of contracts, vendor conformance with deliverables and coordinates submittals.
