Collection Project Assistant

3 weeks ago

Nanaimo, Canada Nanaimo Art Gallery Full time

**Position: Collection Project Assistant (Summer Student)**

**Salary**:$18.20/hour

**Hours**:Summer contract, full time, 37.5 hour/week

**Contract Term**:16 weeks, May 6 - August 23, 2024

**Position Overview**:Nanaimo Art Gallery is looking to add a new member to our team The Collection Project Assistant shares Nanaimo Art Gallery’s values of relevance, relationships, innovation, and openness, and is responsible for helping to document, catalog, and organize our permanent collection.

Under the direction of the Gallery’s Curator and Gallery Technician, the Collection Project Assistant will work to improve the organization, documentation, storage, and care of our permanent collection, through detailed condition reporting, matting, filing, labeling, and documenting.

The Assistant will add important context to the works we house through online and on-site research. The Assistant will help us to populate our collection management software with new acquisitions, and expand information about previously cataloged works. The Assistant will also help us to index the locations of artworks in our building to locations data in our collection management software. They will also help with exhibition installation and other related duties.

**Specific Duties and Responsibilities**:
The Collection Project Assistant’s responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:

- Art handling
- Photographing artwork
- Condition reporting artwork
- Populating and updating artwork entries in our collection management software
- Organizing and labeling artwork
- Researching artists and artwork
- Helping with exhibition installation and take down
- Facilitating exhibition programs and events
- Other duties as assigned

**Requirements: (Qualifications, Knowledge, Education and Skills)**
- Clear and confident communicator with strong written and oral communication skills
- Creative, enthusiastic, adaptable and self-motivated
- Organizational skills
- Love of arts and culture
- Desire to contribute to and collaborate with a creative team
- Ability to lift and move artworks (maximum 50 pounds)
- Experience with spreadsheets and data entry
- Computer literate
- Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada (non-Canadians holding temporary work visas or awaiting permanent status are not eligible)
- Between 16 and 30 years of age at the start of employment
- Willing to commit to the full duration of the work assignment
- Registered as a full time student this past semester
- Intend to return to studies in the fall of 2024

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Proficiency in common communication tools (MS Office, Google Suite, Zoom, etc.)
- Undergraduate student studying visual art, art history, museum studies, Indigenous studies, archives, library studies, collections management or another related field

**To Apply**

Nanaimo Art Gallery hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Seasonal, Internship / Co-op
Contract length: 16 weeks

**Salary**: $18.20 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking
- Store discount

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Application question(s):

- Were you registered as a full time student this past semester?
- Do you intend to return to studies in the fall of 2024?
- Did you submit a cover letter? Only those applicants who submit both a cover letter and CV will be considered.

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-03-15
Expected start date: 2024-05-06

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