New-York Historical Society Collections Manager


Full-time position with benefits; salary in high 30s to low 40s
commensurate with experience.
In the year 2000, the Society will open the Henry Luce Center for the
Study of American Culture, a state-of-the art collections facility which
will bring the majority of the Society's museum collections out of
storage and make them permanently accessible to the public.
In anticipation of this new facility, The New-York Historical Society is
accepting applications for the position of Collections Manager. Until
the Luce center opens, the successful applicant will devote most of his
or her time to supervising and coordinating the move of these
newly-catalogued collections from off-site collections storage to the
Society's heaadqarters on Central Park West and to another off-site
collections storage facility. This will involve coordinating any
remaining re-housing needs, planning and implementing a system for
tracking the movement and locations of objects, and supervising the
packing of objects for relocation. Other duties will include: the
general supervision of teh off-site storage facility up until and
throughout the move; the administration of contractural personnel and
staff involved in collections cataloguing, digitization, and
conservation assesment and treatment; acting as a liason between
off-site storage staff and teh Luce center project Manager, and the
general supervision adn coordination of other more long-term collections
management issues such as the development of a prioritized plan for
conservation assesment, and updating the Society's collections
management procedures and policies.
The successful applicant will report to the Luce center Project manager.
he or she will work closely with the full-time Collections Management
Associate who is presently in charge of incoming and outgoing loans,
fielding collection viewing and research requests, and tracking in-house
collections movement.
Qualifications: Graduate or advanced degree in History, American
Studies, or related field with at least four years of collections
management experience working in a team atmosphere.
Please send all resumes by 9/15/99 to Persponnel Department, The
New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 or
fax to (212)595-5447

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