Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation
Columbia University
Title: Program Coordinator
Description: Reporting to the associate director of the Media Center
for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation and providing
assistance to the director of the Center for Archaeology, the
incumbent coordinates the research, development, submission, and
fiscal accounting of project grants for art history, archaeology, and
historic preservation. Financial duties include administering
payroll, purchasing, contracting, budgeting, and auditing. The
incumbent manages physical collections of objects and images as well
as media properties, including responsibility for organizing and
cataloguing materials, obtaining copyright permissions, and drafting
licensing contracts. The incumbent organizes equipment and facilities
operations as well as faculty and student study and training programs
and expeditions. The incumbent authors and edits reports, specialized
articles, and online materials. The incumbent supports faculty and
advisory council activities, presentations, classroom teaching, and
events. Other duties and responsibilities assigned as necessary.
Qualifications: BA/BS required with significant course work in art or
architectural history, archaeology, or architectural conservation;
advanced degree desirable. Fluency in at least one foreign language
preferred. At least two years work experience required, preferably at
a museum or other cultural institution or site. Experience with
digital imaging, databases, and multimedia materials for online
libraries desirable. Cataloguing and archiving experience in art
history visual resources, architectural graphics, or archaeological
materials desirable. Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Word and
spreadsheet and database software, such as Microsoft Excel and Access
highly preferred. Familiarity with project management software
desirable. Ability to work with both PC and Macintosh operating
systems preferred. Knowledge of or ability to learn quickly
electronic funds management systems preferred. Must be resourceful,
highly organized, willing to learn independently, and able to work
collaboratively on multiple projects with faculty, staff, and
students.
Please send CV by January 31, 2001, to:
MCAH
821 Schermerhorn
1190 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027
The Media Center for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic
Preservation supports Columbia University art historians,
archaeologists, and architectural conservators in projects that
consider material culture, vision, media, and pedagogy. The range of
interests encompasses the political, environmental, demographic,
economic, legal, cultural, philosophical, interpretive, engineering,
and preservation issues concerning humanity's legacy of images,
objects, artifacts, sculpture, buildings, landscapes, and
archaeological sites.
__________________________________________________________________
Mail submissions to [log in to unmask]
Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc)
to [log in to unmask]
ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance:
http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html
Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]
|