Preservation and Museum Specialist 3 (Temp)

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Preservation and Museum Specialist 3 is responsible for the installation and maintenance of exhibitions in the Western Gallery and other campus venues as well as the care preservation and documentation of Western Washington Universitys art collection. This role ensures the safety security and professional presentation of artworks while adhering to museum standards and best practices. The position also supervises interns and collaborates with university departments to support gallery operations and collection management.

This position will end no later than December 2026.

• Bachelors degree in Studio Art Art Conservation or a relevant field from accredited institution and minimum one (1) year of museum experience with a measurable level of achievement of institutional goals or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the jobs essential duties.
• Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience with project management planning problem solving and organizational skills with attention to detail as they relate to the installation of museum exhibitions.
• Ability to manage multiple exhibitions and projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work extended hours as necessary during installations of Western Gallery exhibitions.

• Wide knowledge about current practice and theory of contemporary art as well as museum administration and methods including collection management policies and ethics proper function of exhibitions and methods of documenting researching organizing and caring for collections.
• Ability to use computer-assisted design programs such as AutoCAD to produce scaled floor plans perspective colored renderings and 3-dimensional views.
• Ability to use graphic design software such as Freehand or In-Design to design create and edit images including text and photos on exhibition panels and directional signage.
• Ability to use video editing programs to produce finished short video presentation from raw footage including the addition of sound or music and such special effects as zooming and fading.
• Ability to use collection management software such as EmbARK for cataloging collections.
• Ability to identify museum objects or archival collections.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.

Application materials should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications.

Position is open until filled.

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