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Job Description:
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Job Identification
Job title: Head, Collection Management
Division: Collection
Department: Collection Management
Supervisor: Associate Director, Collection
Status: 3 years contract
Posting period: December, 2018
Job entry: January, 2019
THE INTEGRAL VERSION OF THIS JO DESCRIPTION IS AVAILABLE ON THE CCA WEBSITE: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/about
Job Summary
The Canadian Centre for Architecture is an institution responsive to the cultural content of our time, fueling crucial conversation with the audience. The curatorial teams work consistently to develop and produce research, provocative exhibitions, critical publications and to build a collection that could enhance all the above in order to contribute globally to the current discourse on architecture.
The responsibilities of this job include the strategic thinking about and management of the physical and digital collection (prints and drawings, archives, and photography collection). This requires a holistic view with an emphasis on the preservation, movement and administration of the collection in conjunction to CCA`s curatorial programs. The Head, Collection Management is responsible for the vaults management, the collection management system (TMS), for planning and decision making on incoming and outgoing loans and acquisitions as well as procedures and policies. The incumbent supervises the team assigned to loans, circulating works and collection database and collaborates closely with the Digital and Curatorial departments (Research, Programs and Publications).
Required qualification
• Education: Master degree in Archival Studies, Library & Information Science studies, Museum studies, cultural studies, art history, history of architecture, or a related discipline
• Number of years of relevant work experience: 5 to 7 years in a museum or collection, with management experience
• Ability to work effectively in French and English; knowledge of additional languages is an asset
• Proven capacity to work collaboratively
• Understanding of current trends collection management, vault management, collection and archival management databases and collection disaster planning
• Knowledge of Collection management database technologies, vault management software and planning software
• Knowledge of ISAD(G), RAD, DACS, and other archival descriptive standards, demonstrated familiarity with data structure standards relevant to the archival control of digital collection materials (EAD, Dublin Core, MODS, METS, PREMIS)
• Excellent analytical and communication skills required to resolve complex spatial and planning problems
• Experience in museology techniques (i.e. handling fragile and precious collection material)
• Flexibility to work in an multi-cultural international mindset environment
Please submit your application (resume and cover letter, in English or French) by email to rh@cca.qc.ca to the attention of Human Resources of Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2S6. The application deadline is January 7, 2019. Only successful applicants will be contacted. Please do not call. The CCA is an equal opportunity employer.
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