Please visit Collections Manager for complete job posting and application instructions.
Under supervision of the Curators and Department Chair, this position manages the teaching and scientific specimen collections and databases (Arctos and Symbiota) in the Angelo State Natural History Collections (ASNHC), including the Herbarium, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Herpetology, and Genomic Resources collections. Serves to promote the ASNHC, department, and university through various forms of community outreach. Oversees undergraduate and graduate student assistants, interns, and volunteers working in collections. Participates in providing input toward new facility design.
Duties
Operational management of research and teaching collections in the Angelo State Natural History Collections (ASNHC), to include the Herbarium, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Herpetology, and Genomic Resources collections. ASNHC duties are varied, but typical job functions include (but are not limited to):
- Accessioning, cataloging, and integrating specimens into the ASNHC
- Collecting and preserving scientific specimens
- Operating and maintaining the dermestid skeletal preparation facility
- Developing, implementing, and maintaining an integrated pest management (IPM) program
- Improving and maintaining the collection databases (Arctos and Symbiota) with georeferenced locality data
- Processing and managing loans
- Creating and maintaining policies and procedures that are cohesive with best practices
- Providing assistance to curators in research
- Training, managing, and working with undergraduate and graduate student assistants, interns, and volunteers to carry out curation activities and specimen preparation
- Maintaining and developing the ASNHC website
- Producing and distributing regular PR announcements including annual ASNHC newsletters
- Participating in providing input toward new facility design
- Conducting tours, lectures, programs, and classes on collection-related topics
- Assisting in grant-proposal preparations for collection-related projects
- Coordinating and managing permits relating to collection activities
- Participating in museum programs, workshops, seminars, and other forms of professional development in the museum profession
- Serving to promote the ASNHC, department, and university in other various forms of community outreach and social media
Please visit Collections Manager for complete job posting and application instructions.