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Supervisory Museum Specialist (Assistant Director of Cataloging and Digitization)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$121K/yr - $157K/yr

1+ years exp

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), responsible for oversight and coordination of digitization and collection information management programs, including museum photography and cataloging.

ConsultingGovernmentHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyInternetStaffing Agency

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Cataloging and collections information management including creating and implementing standards for collections cataloguing, researching and documenting the museum object collection and creating standard digital collection records and digital surrogates

Rights and reproduction including researching rights associated with collections, creating and implementing standards for documenting rights information, arranging licenses to use restricted materials and entering rights information into TMS

Meeting regularly with digitization, digital assets management, photography, cataloging, and rights and reproduction staff as well as a variety of Museum staff

Writing or overseeing writing of formal plans, policies, and strategies for all facets of NMAAHC’s digitization and collections information efforts and oversees implementation

Assigning and reviewing work, assuring that work assignments are completed, approving leave for subordinates, recommending performance standards and ratings, and managing the department’s budget

Qualification

Collections managementDigitization programsCataloging standardsDigital assets managementRightsReproductionSupervisionOral communicationWritten communication