[Nhcoll-l] JOB: Collections Manager, Joseph Moore Museum, Earlham College, Part-Time

[Heather Lerner]

Classification: Administrative Faculty – Collections Manager
Department:     Joseph Moore Museum
Status:         Part-time, no benefits. One-year appointment with merit-based
renewal up to five years
Salary: Commensurate with experience

The Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College seeks a part-time
Collections Manager to help oversee its zoological, paleontological,
geologic and anthropological collections. This position will be
supervised by the director of the museum.

About the Joseph Moore Museum
The Joseph Moore Museum (JMM) is the regional natural history museum
for eastern Indiana. First publicly opened in 1887, the JMM is located
in Richmond, Indiana on the campus of Earlham College. Collections
include more than 12,000 vertebrate specimens as skins, skeletons,
alcohol preps, fossils and subfossils, and ~40,000 invertebrate
specimens, including fossil invertebrate type specimens. Many state
vouchers for birds and mammals are held. The JMM is a thriving place
of undergraduate research using the museum collections and
undergraduate training in collections practices. A clean room (ISO-7)
for ancient DNA research is currently being established.

Responsibilities
•       Organization, care and improve the collections, daily;
•       Manage collections data using a computerized database (Specify 6);
•       Preparation and conservation of specimens;
•       Develop and implement an integrated pest management plan (with
direction from the Director);
•       Supervise students and volunteers;
•       Administer loans and facilitate use of the collections;
•       Assist with grant-writing to support Museum operations and improvements;
•       Other duties as assigned.

Collaborative research with students is highly encouraged; independent
research may also be supported on a case-by-case basis.

Qualifications
•       BA/BSc in biology, geology or related field is required;
•       Experience preparing vertebrate specimens is required;
•       Must be self-directed and have the ability to work independently.
•       Must have good manual dexterity, impeccable handwriting and good
time-management skills;
•       Museum experience, integrated pest management knowledge, excellent
computer skills (particularly, knowledge of collections databases),
and a background in systematics are highly desirable;


More information
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact JMM Director Heather
Lerner at 765-983-1402 or lernehe at earlham.edu

To Apply:
Interested candidates should send letter of application, curriculum
vita, and names of three references electronically (as a pdf) to:

leama at earlham.edu

Review of applications will begin immediately.

Appointment will begin September 1, 2012.
Earlham College continues to build a community that reflects the
gender and racial diversity of the society at large, and, therefore,
we are particularly interested in inviting and encouraging
applications from African Americans, other ethnic minorities, and
women. Earlham also is eager to solicit applications from members of
the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Earlham is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.



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Heather R. L. Lerner, Ph.D., M.S.
Joseph Moore Museum Director
Assistant Professor of Biology
Earlham College
801 National Road West
Richmond IN 47374

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