Applications for a one-year Preparator positon are now being accepted.

POSITION TITLE:  PREPARATOR (Conservation Technician I)
Salary Grade: 7 Hiring Range: $2,018 to 2,472/month
Hours per week:   35
(Expected start date: February 1999)

Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills:  BA or BFA highly
desirable.  Prior experience in museum setting or frame shop.  Knowledge
of mat cutting and art handling.  Knowledge of art history and works of
art on paper.  Excellent manual dexterity, strong organizational skills,
and accuracy and attention to detail required.  Knowledge of collections
care/preventive conservation preferred.  Computer skills, including
knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and database
software, required; familiarity with EmbARK database preferred.  Ability
to work while standing for long periods of time.

Duties and Responsibilities:   Reports to Ethnographic Collections Manager
and Conservator.  Works with Paper Conservator to deframe, photograph, and
mat works of art on paper.  Constructs mats.  Prepares protective housings
and storage supports for paintings and historic frames. Affixes catalog
numbers to objects and frames.  Enters object information into EmbARK
database.  Performs other duties as required.  This is a one-year
grant-funded position.

Referral Instructions:   Please send a letter of intent, resume and names
of three references to Rebecca Chetham, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA   02138.
Please no phone calls.
Harvard University is strongly committed to its policy of equal
opportunity and affirmative action.


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T.Rose Holdcraft
Conservator and Administrative
Head of the Conservation Department
Peabody Museum/Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138
Phone:  617/495-2487
FAX: 617/495-7535
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