[NHCOLL-L:2980] position: Director of Collections, PRI

[Robert M. Ross]

Position Available
Director of Collections

The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) is seeking applications for 
the permanent full-time position of Director of Collections.

The Director of Collections is a senior staff member and the primary person 
in charge of caring for one of the nation's largest collections of fossils 
and modern shells. Duties include:
    * oversight of all maintenance, curation, conservation, storage and use 
of Institution's research specimen collections, Recent and fossil;
    * supervision of full- and part-time staff, volunteers, and student 
workers in the Collections Department;
    * oversight of collections computerization activity;
    * cultivation of prospective donors and supporting other collections 
fundraising activity;
    * providing advice on exhibit content in the Museum of the Earth, PRI's 
18,000 square foot exhibit and education facility; and
    * maintaining a personal research program and publishing in paleontology.
The successful candidate will be a highly energetic and self-motivated 
person, with at least a masters degree in a relevant discipline and at 
least three to five years of collections experience.

Start date is as soon as possible after July 1, 2006.

Send CV together with a letter of application and names and contact 
information for three references to:
      Director
      Paleontological Research Institution
      1259 Trumansburg Road
      Ithaca, NY 14850

or  to wda1 at cornell.edu.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

PRI is a natural history museum founded in 1932 and affiliated with Cornell 
University since 2004. More information about PRI is available at 
www.priweb.org.

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Robert M. Ross
Director of Education
Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850

Ph: (607) 273-6623, Ext.18
Fax: (607) 273-6620
Email: ross at museumoftheearth.org

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