Museum Collections Manager Job at Loyola University Chicago
Position Details
Position Details
Job Title
MANAGER
Position Number
8102575
Job Category
University Staff
Job Type
Full-Time
FLSA Status
Exempt
Campus
Chicago-Water Tower Campus
Department Name
LOYOLA UNIV MUSEUM OF ART
Location Code
ALL CAMPUS SUPPORT
Is this split and/or fully grant funded?
No
Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee logistics and documentation for incoming donations and acquisitions of artwork, outgoing loans and incoming exhibition loans.
- Work with our internal classes/departments to support student/faculty/staff exhibits as well as collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Establish, support and sustain the museums educational and cultural resources.
- Establish, document, and maintain collections management procedures pertaining to the storage, long-term preservation, inventory, and use of collection materials to ensure museum best practices.
- Work to support collections development through donor outreach, artifact assessment, preparing/evaluating acquisition proposals, marking/labeling, documenting, photographing, rehousing, and storage.
- Coordinate and maintain collection storage, workspaces, and research areas.
- Manage the planning and execution of exhibitions, rotations, collections-based programming, and short-term displays; coordinate photography, conservation, and movement of the Museum collections; provide exhibition design feedback to ensure compliance with preservation requirements; help install and uninstall collections; perform gallery checks and maintenance; facilitate collections access requests.
- Manage strategic, operational, and project planning and budgeting processes.
- Procure and direct contracted services to advance priority collections management goals and initiatives.
- Maintain and preserve all historic documents of the collections to support and enhance the University’s mission.
- Help plan and implement the Collections Record Keeping System; perform quality control to ensure complete, correct, and consistent collections records.
- Ensure that all collections are stored and managed in a manner that promotes the long-term preservation of collection materials and facilitates their use.
- Provide collections management support and expertise in planning and executing special exhibitions, and artifact rotations to ensure their timely and successful completion and ongoing maintenance.
- Conceptualize and manage exhibitions/special projects within LUMA as well as collections traveling between campuses.
- Manage onsite events with LUMA, as well as create event programming around the collections and traveling artwork/exhibits between all Loyola campuses.
- Prepare and maintain documents and museum policies, emergency operational plans, integrated pest management plan, security and collection management plan.
- Maintain museum library, videos and other resource materials.
- Experience creating and maintaining reliable physical and digital records; some knowledge of digital photography and/or experience with artifact photography
- Experience planning and executing collection preservation, and developing protocols for pest management, disaster prevention and response, and inventory control.
- Experience and expertise budgeting, scheduling, quality control, procurement of resources and services, and ability to work with others effectively to achieve objectives and meet deadlines; demonstrated experience developing and implementing complex workflows to achieve desired results.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Education and/or Work Experience
Bachelor’s degree in related field and three to five year’s related experience.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred in art, art history, museum studies, or a related field.
- Professional gallery experience.
- Knowledge of the methods, techniques and procedures involved in the interpretation and exhibition of art for diverse audiences.
- Strong written/oral communication and organizational skills and public speaking abilities.
- Must be able to work flexible hours including mornings, evenings, overnights, and weekends in order to prepare for exhibitions, shows and openings.
Certificates/Credentials/Licenses
None
Computer Skills
Knowledge of database, scheduling and Microsoft Office applications
Supervisory Responsibilities
Yes
Required operation of university owned vehicles
No
Does this position require direct animal or patient contact?
No
Physical Demands
Lifting, Carrying, Standing, Climbing, Crawling/Kneeling, Repetitive Motions
Working Conditions
Ventilation, Heights
Open Date
09/29/2021
Close Date
Special Instructions to Applicants
COVID
-19 Vaccination Requirement
Loyola
requires
all faculty, staff, and students to be
COVID
-19
vaccinated
along with receiving the
COVID
-19 Booster vaccine when eligible. An
exemption
for a qualified medical or religious reason may be submitted for review/approval.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
As one of the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic universities, Loyola University Chicago fosters a transformative cultural experience that honors
diversity, equity, and inclusion
. We are committed to not only recruiting, but also retaining a diverse, mission driven workforce and enabling a culture of inclusiveness in an environment that values service excellence, stewardship, personal well-being, and professional development for all of our employees. Loyola University Chicago supports its staff and faculty with a wide array of affordable, comprehensive and competitive
benefits
centered on health and wellness, financial security, equity, and work-life balance. We actively seek those who wish to join our faculty, staff, and students in a community of diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds supporting our Jesuit mission and striving toward the same goal of being persons for and with others.
Quick Link for Posting
https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/17132
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