Summary

The Human Resources team provides consultation partnerships for employment, employee relations, training and development, benefits, compensation, human resources information systems (HRIS), performance management, equal opportunity and labor relations. HR leads the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) by demonstrating the behaviors in a human-centered environment that requires us to understand, respond to and create dialogue opportunities to address needs, support opportunities for growth, and streamline processes for efficiency. HR’s mission is to be forward-thinking and compassionate in our efforts to serve the PEM campus community.

Key Details

• Schedule: 10 weeks (18 hours onsite per week)
• Dates: June 11 – August 24, 2026
• Orientation: Thursday, June 11, 2026, from 10 AM to 4 PM

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Eligibility

• A professional that has strong computer proficiency with MS Office
• Knowledge of HR practices and principles
• A desire to learn how human resources operates in a nonprofit environment.
• Strong organization, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills to work with a high performing team.
• The ability to handle confidential and sensitive information is critical to this role.

Compensation

$2,000 stipend

About

The roots of the Peabody Essex Museum date to the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem ship captains and supercargoes. True to the spirit of its past, PEM is dedicated to creating a museum experience that celebrates art and the world in which it was made. By presenting art and culture in new ways, by linking past and present and by embracing artistic and cultural achievements worldwide, the museum offers unique opportunities to explore a multilayered and interconnected world of creative expression. It has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating and collecting museum in the United States.

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