Administrative Facilities Project Manager

Henry Morrison Flagler Museum; Florida; On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum seeks a Project Coordinator to assist the Director of Facilities with administration, organization, and project documentation for preservation and capital projects. You will oversee schedules, budgets, contractors, permits, and stakeholder communications to keep work safe, efficient, and compliant.

Responsibilities include maintaining records, coordinating with curatorial staff, and supporting long-term facility planning to present a well-kept historic house

Qualifications

• Experience providing administrative and organizational support on construction projects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Acrobat, and file management applications.
• Excellent written communication and proofreading skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize complex information.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with limited supervision.
• Experience in museums, historic preservation, architecture, or related field preferred.
• Desirable: organizing project photographs, drawings, or archival records.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Director’s email, schedule, documents, deadlines, and follow-up.
• Draft, edit, and format letters, reports, and meeting materials.
• Maintain organized department files and project records.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, utilities, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with plans, permits, building codes, and safety practices.
• Organize project photographs and archival materials for preservation planning.

Skills

Administrative support

Construction administration

MS Office

Excel

Proofreading

Communication

File management

Records organization

Prioritization

Discretion

Tools

Microsoft Office

Acrobat

Shared file management apps

Project documentation tools

Job description

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

The Project Coordinator supports the Director of Facilities through administration, organization, and project documentation. The role supports preservation, restoration, building improvements, and institutional initiatives, maintaining historical records that advance the Flagler Museum’s curatorial goals and interpretation of Whitehall as a historic house museum.

The coordinator oversees renovation, maintenance, and capital projects from scoping through closeout, managing schedules, budgets, contractors, vendors, permits, documentation, and stakeholder communications. The role helps keep work safe, efficient, on schedule, and compliant with applicable requirements. The coordinator also supports daily facility operations and long-term planning to keep buildings and grounds safe, functional, and well presented.

The coordinator preserves records of historic conditions, original building materials, conservation treatments, alterations, and construction interventions and keeps them accessible. Collaborating with the Director of Facilities and appropriate curatorial staff, the coordinator maintains project records and archival packages to support preservation and construction planning, scholarship, exhibitions, and interpretation of the historic house museum.

Essential responsibilities

• Manage the Director’s email, correspondence, schedule, documents, deadlines, and follow-upReview correspondence, flag items for the Director, draft routine replies, and track outstanding communications
• Draft, edit, and format letters, memoranda, reports, meeting materials, and project correspondence
• Maintain organized digital and physical department files.
• Maintain project files from initiation through completion.
• Conduct site visits and project meetings, monitor progress and workmanship, document decisions, and resolve issues promptly.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, utilities, and internal stakeholders.
• Help ensure compliance with approved plans, contracts, permits, building codes, accessibility requirements, safety practices, and organizational policies.
• Coordinate project activities to minimize disruption to employees, visitors, programs, events, and daily operations.
• Track project correspondence, proposals, contracts, drawings, specifications, reports, approvals, meeting notes, photographs, schedules, invoices, and other documentation.
• Track action items and follow-up across staff, consultants, contractors, vendors, and other project participants.
• Help prepare and schedule meetings, record decisions, and track follow-up.
• Support documentation and communications with architects, engineers, conservators, preservation specialists, contractors, fabricators, consultants, and vendors.
• Organize project photographs and visuals with consistent file names, dates, captions, subject labels, and descriptions.
• Consolidate project photographs, plans, vendor correspondence, reports, and related materials from email and department files into shared, searchable records.
• Work with the Director to identify significant project materials for long-term retention.
• Assemble consistent project closeout and archival packages.
• Coordinate records-retention and archival-transfer standards with appropriate Museum staff.
• Work with curatorial and preservation staff to identify and document original materials, historic fabric, prior interventions, and archival plans for interpretation, conservation, and future work.
• Develop and maintain consistent file-naming conventions, folder structures, and documentation procedures.
• Keep significant department records and project information accessible for future Museum use.
• Maintain reliable preservation and construction records for future design, capital planning, repairs, research, and historic-house interpretation.
• As priorities and time permit, help organize significant legacy project records.
• Handle sensitive institutional information discreetly and confidentially.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Experience providing administrative and organizational support in construction, including support for multiple projects or senior-level responsibilities.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel; Acrobat; and shared file management applications.
• Excellent written communication, proofreading, and professional correspondence skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize complex information.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines, and action items with limited supervision.
• Strong digital file-management and records-organization skills.
• Preferred: experience in museums, historic preservation, architecture, design, construction administration, archives, project administration, or a related professional setting.
• Desirable: experience organizing project photographs, drawings, specifications, reports, or archival records.

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum is an equal opportunity employer