What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager, Content & Learning position at Simon Wiesenthal Center?
About Us
Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts antisemitism and hate, defends the safety of Israel and Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust through awareness, advocacy, justice, education, and its Museums of Tolerance. With a constituency of over 400,000 member families since its founding in 1977, the SWC has an international footprint through its Museums of Tolerance, Moriah Films, and the Digital Terrorism Hate Project.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, it maintains operations in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Buenos Aires. It is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations, UNESCO, the Organization of American States, the Latin American Parliament, and the Council of Europe and maintains relationships with the highest levels of governments throughout the world.
In 1993, the Center opened the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to worldwide acclaim. The Museum has served as the Center’s flagship educational arm, challenging visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historical and contemporary contexts. In addition, the Center developed Moriah Media to produce theatrical documentaries to educate global audiences. Moriah has produced 17 documentaries to date, two of which have received the Academy Award for best feature documentary, The Long Way Home and Genocide.
About The Position
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT) is seeking a mission-driven Project Manager to oversee the development pipeline of content and learning experiences across the Education Division. This individual will steward the operational and cross-functional process that brings ideas to impact—ensuring educational content is strategically aligned, timely, and developed in partnership with key internal teams including the Director of Content & Learning, Content Specialists, and the Process & Operations Officer.
This role is instrumental in shepherding the content-to-program process, tracking project timelines, managing workflows, and aligning internal stakeholders. A critical component of this position is serving as the primary liaison to Moriah Films, ensuring that documentary and media assets are thoughtfully integrated into educational programming and content strategy.
This role is ideal for a collaborative and detail-oriented project leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, is skilled at managing team-based initiatives, and is deeply committed to the MOT’s educational mission to confront hate and inspire moral courage.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management & Process Stewardship
Minimum Qualifications
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a SWC employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. The Simon Wiesenthal Center embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts antisemitism and hate, defends the safety of Israel and Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust through awareness, advocacy, justice, education, and its Museums of Tolerance. With a constituency of over 400,000 member families since its founding in 1977, the SWC has an international footprint through its Museums of Tolerance, Moriah Films, and the Digital Terrorism Hate Project.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, it maintains operations in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Buenos Aires. It is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations, UNESCO, the Organization of American States, the Latin American Parliament, and the Council of Europe and maintains relationships with the highest levels of governments throughout the world.
In 1993, the Center opened the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to worldwide acclaim. The Museum has served as the Center’s flagship educational arm, challenging visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historical and contemporary contexts. In addition, the Center developed Moriah Media to produce theatrical documentaries to educate global audiences. Moriah has produced 17 documentaries to date, two of which have received the Academy Award for best feature documentary, The Long Way Home and Genocide.
About The Position
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT) is seeking a mission-driven Project Manager to oversee the development pipeline of content and learning experiences across the Education Division. This individual will steward the operational and cross-functional process that brings ideas to impact—ensuring educational content is strategically aligned, timely, and developed in partnership with key internal teams including the Director of Content & Learning, Content Specialists, and the Process & Operations Officer.
This role is instrumental in shepherding the content-to-program process, tracking project timelines, managing workflows, and aligning internal stakeholders. A critical component of this position is serving as the primary liaison to Moriah Films, ensuring that documentary and media assets are thoughtfully integrated into educational programming and content strategy.
This role is ideal for a collaborative and detail-oriented project leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, is skilled at managing team-based initiatives, and is deeply committed to the MOT’s educational mission to confront hate and inspire moral courage.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management & Process Stewardship
- Coordinate and track educational content development projects from planning through delivery, in close partnership with internal stakeholders.
- Lead weekly content team and biweekly senior education team meetings to communicate project progress.
- Develop and manage project schedules, ensuring milestones, reviews, and deadlines are met with a high standard of quality.
- Maintain project documentation, support alignment meetings, and identify risks or bottlenecks early.
- Partner with the Process & Operations Officer to implement and refine systems that ensure transparency, accountability, and process fidelity across the team.
- Manage relationships with external organizational partners and education contractors, coordinating content team input, scheduling meetings, and tracking deliverables to ensure timely reviews to final submissions
- Serve as a key bridge between the Director of Content & Learning, Content Specialists, and program teams, ensuring ideas translate into executable products.
- Act as the primary contact for programs teams, supporting them in utilizing the program to content creation pipeline to propose new programs and request edits to existing programs.
- Lead collaborative planning sessions, project check-ins, and retrospectives to keep teams aligned and grounded in shared outcomes.
- Support evaluation, feedback integration, and process improvement across content projects.
- Conduct market analysis and best practices research to identify internal and external methodologies, identify gaps and opportunities, and collate findings into actionable reports.
- Act as the primary point of contact between the Education Division and Moriah Films, ensuring seamless integration of film assets into content development pipelines through timely coordination and delivery of key project materials including treatments, scripts, set design and vendor preferences.
- Track available and forthcoming Moriah documentaries and digital stories and work with the Content & Learning team to map opportunities for educational applications.
- Coordinate rights clearance, usage timelines, and versioning needs in partnership with both teams.
- Facilitate alignment meetings to support cohesive storytelling across film and learning platforms.
- Ensure all content projects reflect the Museum’s core educational pillars and stated mission
- Uphold the institution’s guiding principles of empathy, civic responsibility, ethical leadership, and historical accuracy.
- Help maintain fidelity to Holocaust pedagogy, trauma-informed practices, and inclusive design throughout the development process.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in project management, program coordination, or educational content workflows.
- Demonstrated success managing multi-stakeholder projects, ideally within museums, nonprofit, media, or educational environments.
- Familiarity with content development cycles (e.g., editorial, instructional design, media integration, or public programming).
- Strong organizational, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Comfort using project management tools (e.g., Asana, Airtable, Monday) as well as Microsoft Suite tools.
- Passion for the Museum of Tolerance’s mission and the power of storytelling to inspire social change.
- Master’s degree in Education, Museum Studies, Public History, Nonprofit Management, Film/Media Studies, or a related field.
- Experience working with film/media teams or in liaison roles across departments.
- Familiarity with Holocaust education, human rights education, or social justice programming.
- Experience implementing or supporting project frameworks like MOCHA, Agile, or logic models.
- Ability to manage deadlines with grace in high-stakes, multi-project environments.
We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a SWC employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs. The Simon Wiesenthal Center embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.