The Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs oversees and implements the complex set of activities required to plan and realize all museum exhibitions for The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the university's on-campus teaching museum. Primary role responsibilities include managing all exhibition schedules, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation for multiple projects underway at the same time. The position also manages, preserves, and cares for the permanent collection; also oversees the work of the museum's Registrar and Preparator, as well as other curatorial staff.

The Jule is an award-winning academic museum whose primary role is to teach with objects, serving Auburn students, faculty and staff, as well as, stakeholders across the state – https://jcsm.auburn.edu/.

Accredited by the American Association of Museums and a member of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, The Jule stewards a renowned art collection of more than 3000 objects on behalf of Auburn University. Advancing research, outreach and instruction through its collections and programs in active and welcoming learning environments, the museum engages through exhibitions and hosting artists and scholars from across the nation to provide positive impacts for students and faculty. Serving beyond the gallery walls, it also serves the state of Alabama through traveling art programming. The Jule will turn 25 in 2028! With that upcoming milestone, the museum is focused on raising funds to endow positions and programs, establish scholarships, acquire and conserve art, and provide adequate teaching space, all to further center its role within the intellectual life of Auburn University.