Collections Manager - Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, Atchison

Title: Collections Manager
Supervises: Volunteers and Interns

Full Time with Health Insurance
Salary: $18-$20/hour

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum – Organization Description

The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum is a non-profit organization focused on telling
the narrative of Amelia Earhart and Atchison, KS. Located in Atchison, KS, the museum
invites visitors to learn more about the famous aviatrix and the people and places that
supported her.
 

The Museum holds two main collections: Museum Collections and Museum Archives.
The Museum Collections holds items relating to Amelia Earhart while the Museum
Archives holds material relating to the history of the Museum.

Summary

The Collections Manager directly manages and oversees a collection of artifacts,
specimens, and/or artwork, including acquisition, documentation, handling, housing,
use, preservation, disposition, and maintenance. Receives, prepares, and catalogs new
materials; plans and organizes exhibition-related movement of objects, including
packing, shipping, and insurance for collections exhibitions as well as for incoming and
outgoing loans. Manages the database of collection contents. Manages copyright
permissions. Supervises museum personnel, volunteers, and interns.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Manages all aspects of collections care, following and implementing accepted
museum professional standards and practices. Directly manages the
collection's documentation, archives, preservation, handling, copyright,
security, database management, insurance and environmental monitoring of
facilities and objects.
2. Supports exhibition logistics, including incoming/outgoing loans agreements,
shipping, receiving, packing, condition reports, certificates of insurance, and
object security.
3. Manages copyright permissions for collections, exhibitions, and archives for
internal and external publication requests.
4. Supervises the storage and preservation of collections objects including
managing and coordinating conservation treatments.
5. Manages database development for all collections materials. Responsible for
system security, digitization efforts, periodic software upgrades and database
system migrations, metadata development, and database search capabilities.
6. Performs research on collection materials and/or artifacts.
7. Assists in preparing proposals, finding and writing grants, and other general
fundraising and donor programs for the museum.
8. Gathering data: Historians collect data from archives, books, artifacts, court
records, diaries, news files, and photographs
9. Analyzing data: Historians determine the authenticity and significance of
historical data
10.Supervises access to the collection for study, exhibition, and research.
11. Communicates with potential donors, museums, institutions, and other
patrons for potential acquisitions to the collection.
12.May train and supervise staff, interns, and/or volunteers performing related
work; may participate in the recruitment of volunteers, as appropriate to the
area of operation.
13.Provides guided tours to museum visitors
14.Develops strategies to keep visitors inspired, collections relevant, and
operations on track.
15.Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Full job description and application instructions attached below.