From: "Heather S. Sonntag" <hssonntag@wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Museum Coordinators Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:45:11 +0000 Message-id: <DM6PR06MB6281BD7E44EA340B3FA5830BDB669@DM6PR06MB6281.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
If you haven't already received any descriptions, here is one that I just found on Archives Gig for "Washington, DC: Museum Specialists (AVMPI Coordinators) (term), Smithsonian Institution."
Duties
* Collection Project Management (60%)
* Oversees the AVMPI by assessing program needs, as well as assists with developing and implementing collection management standards, policies, and procedures to ensure the safety, conservation, and preservation of audiovisual collections.
* Collects and assembles critical information about collections to assist in the assessment of the Smithsonian’s overall audiovisual collections stewardship. Compiles reports and recommendations relating to preservation for the use of committees, focus groups, and other units within the Smithsonian.
* Manages the AVMPI Team, ensures the completion of goals in a timely manner, as determined by the AVMPI Task Force and Advisory Committee. Develops project goals and timelines and identifies persons responsible for completing project tasks. Communicates issues and potential bottlenecks to SLA Preservation Coordinator for resolution
* Coordinates all AVMPI activities and related projects, to include physical stabilization and conservation treatment, digitization, quality control, transcription, and accessibility. Maintains the conservation laboratory and collections storage for AVMPI activities, to include inventorying and purchasing supplies, advising on appropriate conservation treatment methods, and managing collection environments and an integrated pest management program.
* Budgets and Contracts (25%)
* Serves as principal Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) on preservation-related contracts for rare or at-risk collection digitization. Develops statements of work, evaluate proposals and quotes, and interview vendors in accordance with guidance from the Office of Contracting (OCon). Ensure compliance and payment of contracts; and inspect and ensure quality of work and associated deliverables.
* Assists in providing budgetary input on resource needs and for the preparation of the AVMPI annual program budget and spending plans. Manages the purchase and inventory of preservation supplies for the rehousing, stabilization, and the conservation of audiovisual collections. Monitors the internal controls designed to safeguard assets, ensure integrity, and comply with SLA and SI policies.
* Administration (15%)
* Gathers and edits media from multiple SI archives for use in the planning for pan-institutional audiovisual preservation projects. Assembles statistical data and reports for stakeholders to demonstrate the fulfillment of AVMPI goals. Fields and processes preservation requests from SI staff for preservation projects. Provides a high level of service when interacting with SI staff, external stakeholders, and the public.
Heather S. Sonntag, PhD, MLIS
(she/her/hers)
Assistant Archivist of Visual Materials
Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections
Wisconsin Historical Society
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu <localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu> on behalf of Cathi Malke <cathim@cityofpeshtigo.us>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 3:19 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Subject: Museum Coordinators
Could anyone send information about job duties performed by a Museum Coordinator? What other titles do you call this position?
Thank you in advance.
Be safe, Cathi