Description:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collection management (including building custom storage boxes, organizing items in storage, and implementing traditional care guidelines)
- Preventive conservation (including environmental monitoring and control, integrated pest management, and custom housing)
- Researching item provenience Identifying and documenting item construction methods and materials
- Written and photographic documentation
- Providing guidance, or obtaining guidance where applicable, on culturally appropriate descriptions of items, their materials, and their provenience
- Assisting with research into, and responding to inquiries about, the collections
- Testing of display case and item materials
- Assisting with the installation and de-installation of items in exhibitions
- Assisting with preparing items for loan to other institutions
- Use of Collections Management database systems
- Participation in training workshops
Qualifications:
- Enrolled members or direct descendants of federally- and state-recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants should be recent graduates (Associate, BA/BSc, or MA/MSc) with lived Indigenous experience, demonstrable cultural competencies, an interest in a career in museums, and the ability to work with diverse Native American communities
- High frequency of strenuous activity lifting heavy items, moving carts, using box cutters, hot melt glue guns, and sewing machines to construct collections storage trays, etc
- Ability to work alone or in a team situation required
- Must be able to work with collections and records for long hours
- Successful candidates will have excellent verbal and written communication skills