[Job Announcement] Program Coordinator

Description: Reporting to the associate director of the Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation and providing assistance to the director of the Center for Archaeology, the incumbent coordinates the research, development, submission, and fiscal accounting of project grants for art history, archaeology, and historic preservation. Financial duties include administering payroll, purchasing, contracting, budgeting, and auditing. The incumbent manages physical collections of objects and images as well as media properties, including responsibility for organizing and cataloguing materials, obtaining copyright permissions, and drafting licensing contracts. The incumbent organizes equipment and facilities operations as well as faculty and student study and training programs and expeditions. The incumbent authors and edits reports, specialized articles, and online materials. The incumbent supports faculty and advisory council activities, presentations, classroom teaching, and events. Other duties and responsibilities assigned as necessary.

Qualifications: BA/BS required with significant course work in art or architectural history, archaeology, or architectural conservation; advanced degree desirable. Fluency in at least one foreign language preferred. At least two years work experience required, preferably at a museum or other cultural institution or site. Experience with digital imaging, databases, and multimedia materials for online libraries desirable. Cataloguing and archiving experience in art history visual resources, architectural graphics, or archaeological materials desirable. Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Word and spreadsheet and database software, such as Microsoft Excel and Access highly preferred. Familiarity with project management software desirable. Ability to work with both PC and Macintosh operating systems preferred. Knowledge of or ability to learn quickly electronic funds management systems preferred. Must be resourceful, highly organized, willing to learn independently, and able to work collaboratively on multiple projects with faculty, staff, and students.

The Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation supports Columbia University art historians, archaeologists, and architectural conservators in projects that consider material culture, vision, media, and pedagogy. The range of interests encompasses the political, environmental, demographic, economic, legal, cultural, philosophical, interpretive, engineering, and preservation issues concerning humanity's legacy of images, objects, artifacts, sculpture, buildings, landscapes, and archaeological sites.