Manager, Security Operations

🏢 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art · 📍 Los Angeles · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full-time 💰 $153,000 - $177,000 / yr

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

ABOUT THE LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is dedicated to illustrated storytelling. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the museum’s collection features works by artists including Norman Rockwell, Kadir Nelson, Jessie Willcox Smith, N. C. Wyeth, Beatrix Potter, Judith F. Baca, Frida Kahlo, and Maxfield Parrish; as well as comic art legends such as Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, and R. Crumb; and photographers Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dorothea Lange. The Museum also houses the Lucas Archives, containing models, props, concept art, and costumes from Lucas’s filmmaking career.

Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD with a landscape by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA, the Museum is in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on an 11-acre campus that includes new green space and a 300,000-square-foot building with galleries, two theaters, a library, restaurant, café, retail store, and community spaces. 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Manager, Security Operations position is responsible for the day-to-day management of the physical security program at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA or Lucas Museum). The manager will work with the Chief Security Officer to assess security risks at the museum and recommend mitigation strategies. The manager will develop protocols that ensure consistent, quick, and effective responses by the security workforce including contract staff. This role is responsible for helping to ensure the safety and security of staff, visitors, collections, and property through leadership, operational oversight, and people management.

The manager will develop training that reinforces these protocols and develops the skills necessary for the security workforce to respond to incidents. The manager will work with the Chief Security Officer to ensure that external partnerships with law enforcement and other government and private entities are strong, and that their respective responsibilities are clear.

The Manager, Security Operations position will also work with the Chief Security Officer to develop training for both the security workforce and the wider LMNA staff on specific threat awareness, including active shooter respons

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

They evaluate your profound respect for narrative art, cultural stewardship, and your ability to operate at the intersection of world-class visitor experience and institutional operations.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating the museum strictly as a corporate entertainment venue rather than a cultural institution
2. Lacking cultural literacy regarding narrative art history and visual storytelling
3. Displaying a rigid, bureaucratic approach to creative operations and stakeholder management

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I protect and amplify creative vision by translating world-class artistic storytelling into seamless, unforgettable institutional experiences.

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