Museums
Assistant Curator for Historic Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA, Closes 12/1/09
Special Collections Librarian, Mount Vernon, VA, Closes 12/15/09
Technical Services Librarian, Mount Vernon, VA, Closes 12/15/09
Public History and Museum Director Mt. Pleasant, MI Posted 11/10/09
Administrative Assistant for Block Museum, Evanston, IL, Posted 11/3/09
NYC Police Museum Grant Writer, New York, NY, Posted 10/26/09
Transnational American Art Curator, Lincoln, NE, Posted 10/20/09
Administrative Assistant to the Director, Santa Clara, CA, Posted 10/19/09
Assistant Registrar at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Posted 10/19/09
Collections Manager/Assistant Curator, Hempstead, NY, Posted 10/14/09
Chief Registrar for Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Posted 10/14/09
Executive Director for New England Museum Association, Arlington, MA, Posted 10/14/09
Hofstra University Museum Collections Manager/Assistant Curator, Hempstead, NY, Posted 10/8/09
Utah State University Museum Registrar, Logan, UT, Posted 10/2/09
Curator, Columbus, OH, Posted 9/23/09
Gift Shop Assistant, College Park, MD, Posted 9/23/09
Hearst Art Gallery Manager, Moraga, CA, Posted 9/23/09
Katonah Museum Development/Membership Manager, Katonah, NY, Posted 9/21/09
Part-time Tour Guides, College Park, MD, Posted 9/16/09
Exhibit Designer/Fabricator, Columbus Ohio, Posted 9/15/09
Museum Registrar, Tahlequah OK, Posted 9/15/09
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art Preparator, Shawnee, OK, Posted 9/4/09
Hillwood Estate Museum Educator, Washington D.C., Posted 8/27/09
Preparator, Cooperstown, NY, Posted 8/26/09
Curator, Contemporary Art, Edmonton, Canada, Posted 8/26/09
Curator, Evanston, IL, posted 6/23/09
Registar, Morgantown, WV, posted 6/23/09
Hofstra University Museum
Collections Manager/Assistant Curator
Full-Time
The Hofstra University Museum is an AAM accredited fine art museum, with two gallery spaces and an outdoor sculpture collection located on the 240-acre campus of Hofstra University. The Museum is dedicated to being a vital partner in the educational, pedagogical, and cultural life of the University as well as the greater New York metropolitan region. It strives to achieve its mission through adherence to the highest professional standards in its collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of works of art.
The Collections Manager/Assistant Curator (CM/AC) will professionally manage and care for the 4,500 objects in Hofstra University Museum collections, including maintenance of all collections, object records, and storage areas. The CM/AC develops and maintains appropriate AAM and other professional standards, policies and procedures, for the care and handling of works of art and artifacts. The CM/AC should possess in-depth knowledge of conservation theory and practices. The position involves all aspects of acquisition, registration, cataloging, deaccessioning, digitization, environmental control, loan processing, insurance, records computerization, storage maintenance, and information retrieval in response to research requests. The CM/AC has responsibility for coordinating and/or curating at least one exhibition per year. This individual also has responsibility to train and work with undergraduate and graduate student interns and assistants.
The Collection Manager/Assistant Curator will work well in a team atmosphere and support the development of educational and public programming for the University community and the general public. The CM/AC will have responsibility to develop, plan and implement short and long-range goals for the management of the collection, it is important for this individual to possess the ability to use independent judgment to manage and impart information.
The Collection Manager/Assistant Curator is supervised directly by the Museum's Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Collections who reports to the Executive Director.
Qualifications: The Hofstra University Museum seeks an experienced professional who holds either an M.A. or M.F.A. degree in Art History/Fine Arts/Anthropology/Museum Studies from an accredited program. The candidate should have five (5) years experience managing a collection as a Registrar, Assistant Registrar, Collection Manager, Curator of Collections or a comparable position.
The successful candidate will be flexible, creative, have excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to maintain accurate records and documents, have strong computer skills, knowledge of IO or other collection database cataloguing software, and graphic imaging (Photoshop preferred), as well as being adept at developing and maintaining a personal work schedule. The position requires a person who will develop and support scholarly access to the collection and has knowledge of art history as well as interest in, and personal hands-on experience with, the curatorial process. It is preferred that the candidate have knowledge and understanding of copyright and reproduction regulations.
Requested Information: For consideration, please send cover letter, resume and three references to:
Application Instructions: Beth E. Levinthal
Executive Director, Hofstra University Museum
Beth.E.Levinthal@hofstra.edu
Hofstra University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty administrative staff and student body, and encourages applications from the entire spectrum of a diverse community