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Job Description
Required Education:Bachelors degree
Equivalency/Substitution: Will accept 48 months of museumrelated work experience in lieu of the Bachelors degree.
Skills:
- Able to communicate well and build rapport quickly with students faculty and staff
- Good presentation skills (verbal and written)
- Demonstrated knowledge of acceptable museum practices and standards for collection care collection management documentation conservation and registration methods for collections
- Ability to work independently and in teams
- Must use established occupational health and safety practices
- Knowledge of best practices for the preservation and exhibition of physical objects and their data (e.g. metadata standards data management etc.
- Familiarity with and adherence to ethical conduct with respect to Native peoples and materials
- Interpersonal skills commensurate with representing the collection in oneonone and group settings.
- Excellent skills in organization
Required Working Conditions
- Required to be mobile agile bend stoop squat climb lift 1544 pounds) and carry
- Ability to engage in repetitive motions. Able to read handwritten documents.
- Frequent exposure to safety hazards from chemicals and onerous odors
- Ability to move archival boxes between shelves and collection areas (up to 15lbs each)
Departmental Preferences:
- M.A./M.S. degree in anthropology folklore museum studies art history conservation or related field
- Prior supervisory and photographic/multimedia experience
- Bachelor Degree in anthropology folklore museum studies art history conservation or related field AND: 024 months of collectionrelated experience
Special Instructions: If you are selected as a final candidate for this position you will be subject to The University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Tuberculosis Testing policy. To view the policy visithttps://hr.ou/PoliciesHandbooks/TBTesting.
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Required Attachments
Documents required for this position are listed under the Required Attachments section of this job listing. You will be required to upload and attach these documents in the application process.
The Molly Shi Boren Ethnology Collection at the Sam Noble Museum University of OklahomaNorman Campus is seeking a fulltime Collection Manager to be responsible for the daily operations and management of the museums ethnology classical archaeology and Native American and natural history fine art collections. The Collection Manager also supports the research and exhibition program of the Curator of Ethnology and is responsible for interfacing with the public supervising and training students interns and volunteers and helping visitors make use of the collections.
Essential Duties:
- Provides care of the collections date and records management
- Identifies prepares tags and catalogs specimens for new and existing collections
- Meets with visitors to the collection filling patron requests remotely and in person and giving tours to the public
- Assists in grant proposal preparation
- Maintains centralized computer and/or manual records of collections
- Assists with the supervision of assistants interns and volunteers
- Assists with exhibitions through collectionrelated activities
- Provides curatorial care for collections including incoming and outgoing loans
- Assists in and conducts collectionrelated research as directed
- Handles special projects such as exhibit content preparation storage and catalog improvements
- Coordinates outreach programs and participants in educational activities as appropriate
- May give division tours presentlectures or assist with collectionrelated topics
- Performs various dues as needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position
- Performing databasing and image and records management including processing existing accessions (reformatting metadata data management writing finding aids etc.
- Preparing new collections for accessioning including providing institutional metadata securing permissions and working with the museum registrar to complete accession paperwork
- Assisting and supporting the research program of the Curator of Ethnology
- Assisting with development and implementation of exhibitions based on Ethnology collection
- Training and supervising student volunteers and interns in collection management tasks
- Working with external tribal and nontribal entities regarding objects records loans/acquisitions exhibitions etc.
- Assisting the Exhibit Department with installation/strike/maintenance and condition reporting of temporary and permanent exhibitions
- Supporting public service programs and educational and outreach activities as appropriate
Employment Type
Full-Time
