Join the HistoryIT team of innovators and be part of a growing company in a dynamic industry. Work with professional historians, technologists, and technicians at the forefront of preserving and presenting history through innovative technological solutions and smart strategic planning. 

HistoryIT is seeking to hire a Project Director, based in the Portland, ME headquarters. This person will be a key member of the project teams, reporting directly to the CEO. The primary role of HistoryIT’s Project Director will be to run on-site archive and museum collection assessments and to manage project teams at various stages of assessment, strategic planning, and digital archive creation. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead assessment review teams

• Develop project tasks and resource requirements

• Implement and oversee project tasks and direct reports per project

• Manage project budgets

• Interact with clients to provide regular updates, seek feedback, and manage their requests

• Write assessment reports for clients 

• Work with management to create project teams

• Collaborate with other project directors and staff about task assignments and delivery schedules

• Manage multiple project teams concurrently

• Manage Quality Assurance of deliverables

• Use HistoryIT software platform to organize digital collections, manage authority lists, and import digital archives

• When necessary, perform metadata and curatorial tasks

• Create regular reporting for management and clients regarding all progress and any changes

• Work closely with the Chief Executive Offer to continue to improve the overall workflow and efficiency of all HistoryIT projects 

Requirements:

• Degree in History preferred, interest in history required

• Familiarity with history organizations, museums, archives and/or libraries 

• Expert knowledge of project management principles, practices and tools with the ability to align those approaches to individual project and organization needs

• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional, multi-stakeholder projects from proposal through completion

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Proficiency with project management software

• Experience managing a team

• Experience working with archival materials and collections

• Ability to easily and successfully multitask

• Ability to adjust to changing priorities

• Highly organized and detail oriented

Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to our Human Resources Department at hr@historyit.com. (subject line: Project Director). Review of applications will begin immediately.

HistoryIT provides equal opportunity to all employees on the basis of individual qualification without regard to race, sex, religion, color, age, national origin, physical and mental disability, genetic information and history, sexual orientation, or other category protected by state or federal law. HistoryIT does not discriminate in the recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, benefits or any other condition of employment.

POSITION OVERVIEW
The manager of collections and registration leads both long-range planning efforts and day-to-day activities relative to the care and stewardship of the collections. Reporting to the deputy director, this position provides important leadership relative to collections care, shaping and enforcing collections management policies that reflect the highest museum standards and best practices to safeguard the museum’s collections and loans for future generations.

The manager of registration and collections supervises the collections team, which includes the registrars, senior preparator, and digital project developer, and leads their collective work to ensure the physical and environmental care of collections and loans as well as to provide physical and digital access to collection objects and records. The manager of collections and registration is responsible for legal contracts with donors, lenders, vendors, insurance and customs brokers, and borrowing institutions. The manager works closely with the registrar for collections and the digital project developer to maintain the museum collection management system and all collection-related aspects of the museum website. They develop and manage budgets related to the storage, insurance, handling, conservation, photography, digital collection management, and registrarial aspects of exhibitions. They also serve as part of the museum managers team, which meets regularly to plan and facilitate cross-functional operational work across the museum.

For more information and to apply visit:

https://colby.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ColbyCareers/job/Colby-College/Manager-of-Collections-and-Registration_R0000239

Colby College is seeking a highly motivated director of museum development at an exciting and defining moment in Colby’s history. This key position offers a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious and transformational campaign, at a time of tremendous opportunity and growth in the arts, including its museum, and at a historic moment that requires a profound understanding of the arts and education as public goods. With a dual-report to the assistant vice president for college advancement and the Carolyn Muzzy museum director, the director of museum development brings an entrepreneurial spirit to the role of leading the Colby Museum of Art’s efforts to solicit, cultivate, and steward philanthropic support for the museum. The successful candidate will foster a culture of philanthropy to ensure that the museum can deliver on its mission, goals, and ambitions for years to come.

For more information and to apply please visit:

https://colby.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ColbyCareers/job/Colby-College/Director-of-Museum-Development_R0000237

Maine Maritime Museum’s (MMM) mission is to celebrate Maine’s vibrant maritime heritage. The Nathan R. Lipfert Research Library at the museum collects, holds, and makes available to the public, archival material from Maine’s maritime past and present.

The Library Assistant, working under the supervision of the Assistant Curator and the Chief Curator, will improve access to the museum’s primary source collections. This grant-funded position will digitize logbooks held in the Nathan R. Lipfert Research Library at Maine Maritime Museum, and make them available to researchers online and via the museum’s collections management system. Previous digitization experience and experience with metadata standards, cataloging, and object-handling preferred. Experience in a library or archives preferred, but not necessary. Time management, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently are the most important skills.

Pay Rate

This is a part-time temporary position paying $14 hour, with an anticipated 400 hours of work. Work must be conducted on site Monday-Friday.

Application

Please submit a cover letter and resume to hr@maritimeme.org..  Interviews will be conducted remotely.  MMM follows all Maine CDC guidelines.

Date Posted: March 9, 2021

This position is subject to sex offender and criminal background checks.

Maine Maritime Museum is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Museum Registrar

Hudson Museum

University of Maine, Orono, Maine

 

The University of Maine seeks a Museum Registrar to manage the Hudson Museum's ethnographic and archaeological collections of over 9000 objects. The Hudson is an anthropology museum that boasts world-class collections, including the William P. Palmer III Collection of Precolumbian artifacts ranging from Olmec to Aztec and an astounding collection of Native American holdings from the Arctic to the Pacific Northwest.  The Museum has long-standing programmatic, collections and exhibit collaborations with Maine’s four tribal communities–Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Nation. Through thirty-two cooperating curators, who are UMaine faculty and staff, the Museum is linked to a wide variety of academic departments and institutes and regularly showcases UMaine research through exhibitions and programs.

For full position details and to apply, please visit our website listed below:

https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobid=65031

 

 

The University of Maine System is an EEO/AA employer, and does not

discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual

orientation, including transgender status and gender expression,

national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information

or veteran’s status in employment, education, and all other programs

and activities. Please contact the Director of Equal Opportunity, 101

N. Stevens Hall, Orono, ME 04469 at 207-581-1226 (voice), TTY 711

(Maine Relay System), or equal.opportunity@maine.edu with

questions or concerns.

Employment Type:  Full Time, fixed length

The curator of collections oversees all museum, library, and archival collections. This consists of ensuring appropriate care and environmental conditions, creating and maintaining records in databases, and storing and exhibiting items safely and professionally. Finally, the curator of collections assists researchers with inquiries.

For full description and application information, please consult the position posting on the University of Maine employment website: https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=66949&job=curator-of-collections.

MHS welcomes applications for this part-time, 21 hrs/week, non-exempt position in our Advancement office. Remote and flex schedule possible.

The Advancement Operations Specialist manages MHS’s Advancement database. He/she enters, updates, and retrieves a wide variety of constituent records; enters gifts; and produces gift acknowledgments. The Specialist collaborates with staff to architect new data systems, standards, and procedures to strengthen MHS’s annual, major, and planned giving programs and related cultivation and stewardship activities. He/she creates reports to help staff prioritize outreach and engages in prospect research. The Specialist works closely with Advancement team members to support MHS’s commitment to philanthropy and individual relationship building; growing our base of support; and increasing public awareness about our mission. This position requires a strong aptitude and affinity for technology, standardization, and process.

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Gift Entry & Acknowledgment (40%)

• Responsible for processing donor gifts. These include transactions from individuals, corporations, and foundations related to Annual Fund and membership appeals and event sponsorships, as well as more complex entries connected to major and planned gifts.
• Manages acknowledgment system and ensures donors receive receipts/thank you letters in a timely manner.

Data & Systems Management (30%)

• Adds new constituents to Raiser’s Edge database through event attendance, referrals, and prospect research, and updates bio-demographic data points for current constituents.
• Regularly evaluates database effectiveness and designs repeatable systems to build efficiencies, ensure accuracy, and help staff prioritize efforts.
• Ensures data accuracy through regular maintenance queries and clean-up projects.
• Updates and syncs e-mail communications list with Raiser’s Edge database.
• Provides Raiser’s Edge training to Advancement staff, troubleshoots technical challenges, and serves as primary contact with Blackbaud vendor.

Major Gift Support (20%)

• Supports Executive Director and Director of Institutional Advancement in major gift work and prospect research.
• Creates and updates major gift data points in Raiser’s Edge and utilizes a variety of tools and reports to track solicitation and donor activity.
• Coordinates donor screenings with external vendor and volunteers. Working with staff, develops process / triage system for newly-identified major gift prospects.
• Qualifies prospective major donors by researching their giving to other organizations, giving potential and inclination, and interests.
• Occasionally prepares briefings on prospective donors and/or groups of donors for staff and Board members in advance of meetings.

Reporting (10%)

Produces suite of monthly reports that monitor fundraising performance by initiative and strength of donor pipeline.

Other duties as assigned related to fundraising and constituent engagement.

QUALIFICATIONS

• B.A. or B.S. with at least two-three years of work experience in database support, fundraising, or project management;
• Affinity for technology with core skills in Microsoft Office, database applications, and e-mail marketing programs, and the ability/desire to learn and use other specialized software;
• Affinity for systems, rules, and processes;
• Creative problem solver with keen attention to detail;
• Ability to manage priorities and accomplish multiple tasks in a busy environment;
• Team player with sense of humor and flexibility to accomplish an ambitious vision in an evolving institution.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Direct experience with Raiser’s Edge database.
• Knowledge of prospect research and fundraising strategies, tools, and tracking systems.

To apply, send resume and cover letter by January 26 to Christina Traister, Director of Institutional Advancement, at ctraister@mainehistory.org. No phone calls, please.

The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity is accepting applications for the Dorothy W. Sanborn Summer Internship Program. Dotti Sanborn was an accomplished writer and teacher in Bridgton, and was a mentor to her students into their adulthood. Her life was a continual mingling of her many arts talents (quilting, painting, drawing) and her background in natural history (she wrote weekly columns in several papers). Dotti also had a keen interest in local and regional history.

Founded in 2005, the Rufus Porter Museum features the history of a remarkable 19th century New Englander, Rufus Porter (1792-1884).  Porter is well-known in the folk art community for his landscape murals and miniature portraits, however, Porter was more than just a painter.  He was the founding publisher and editor of the magazine Scientific American as well as inventor, writer, teacher and more.  

Open seasonally from mid-June to mid-October, the Museum’s campus consists of two historic buildings – the Webb House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Nathan Church House, which contains murals in situ in the style of the Rufus Porter School. The museum offers changing exhibits, lectures, classes, and special events that embrace Porter’s use of both art and science, oftentimes interchangeably.

Internship Guidelines

The focus of each internship will take into consideration the intern’s interests and educational requirements in conjunction with the needs of the Museum. The intern will create a project of his or her design, with Museum approval, that is aimed at an educational goal. The intern will work under the supervision of the Executive Director. In addition to work on a special project, the intern will give tours of the Museum, man the Museum Store, assist with public events and programs, and participate in the general operations of the Museum. This position offers a hands-on opportunity for an intern to experience working on all aspects of a small museum. At the completion of the internship, an exit interview will be conducted to discuss initial goals, the results of his or her project and overall experience, and recommendations for future projects and/or goals for the Museum. The intern will present his or her finished project both orally and in written form.

Qualifications 

Graduate student or college junior or senior majoring or minoring in an appropriate field or have a demonstrable record of interest in a field connected to the mission of the Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity.

HOW TO APPLY

Email resume/CV, cover letter and three references (at least one academic) to:

Karla Leandri Rider, Executive Director, at director@rufusportermuseum.org

DATES: June 1^st to mid-August (dates are flexible)

AVAILABILITY: Maximum of 30 hours per week, Wednesday through Saturday

PAY STATUS: $12.15/hour

HOUSING: N/A

The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport Maine seeks a full-time education/interpretation intern for summer 2021. This internship will provide hands-on work experience in the daily operations of a medium-sized museum. The intern will actively participate in the Museum’s front line. This internship will include professional development field trips to four other Maine museums (in-person or online) and participation in an intern cohort.

Internship Duties:

• Lead 45-minute guided walking tours
• Monitor visitors and welcome guests
• Research, write, and pilot a new guided walking tour
• Assist with programming (in-person and/or online)
• Submit articles for e-news
• Conduct evaluations with visitors
• Contribute posts and videos to social media
• Attend weekly intern meetings and intern field trips to other museums

Internship Length and Dates:

• 8 weeks
• June 16 - August 10, 2021 (some flexibility if needed)
• July 4^th is a work day
• Work some nights and weekends
• Usually scheduled 35-40 hours/week

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from an undergraduate program or graduate program in museum studies, history, public history, education, material culture, or related field
• Coursework in history and/or education
• Interest in museums and/or maritime history
• Experience working with children
• Experience working with the public
• Excellent computer skills
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Gmail, Facebook, Zoom, YouTube, and Instagram
• Familiarity with PastPerfect a plus, training available

Compensation

• $4,100 stipend paid in biweekly installments
• PMM will provide on-site housing for a small fee

Review of applicants will begin February 15th, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit cover letter, resume, writing sample, transcripts (official or unofficial) and one letter of recommendation as .pdfs to Jeana Ganskop at jganskop@pmm-maine.org.

This internship description is based on the expectation that the 2021 season will be based on a hybrid model where PMM either offers guided walking tours of the campus or some of the exhibits are open for self-guided tours and programming is offered both online and in-person. All museum access and programming will be dynamic and will react to changes in the pandemic and the associated guidelines issued by the state and this internship will adapt accordingly. This is a guaranteed, grant-funded internship.

The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine seeks a full-time digital education intern for summer 2021. This internship will provide hands-on work experience in the online education operations of a medium-sized museum. The intern will actively participate in the Museum’s online initiatives, beginning with providing assistance, with responsibilities increasing over the course of the summer. This internship will include professional development field trips to four other Maine museums (in-person or online) and participation in an intern cohort. Ideally this internship will be located onsite, but can be conducted remotely if necessary.

Internship Duties:

• Assist with weekly live digital programming
• Research, write, and lead live digital programming such as Jr. Adventurers or Peek into Paintings (see PMM Facebook page for examples)
• Contribute to planning for new education website
• Create opportunities to engage new audiences
• Submit articles for enews
• Conduct evaluations with visitors or participants
• Contribute posts and videos to social media
• Attend weekly intern meetings and intern field trips to other museums
• If the intern is able to be onsite:
• • Monitor visitors and welcome guests
  • Assist with and/or lead onsite programming

Internship Length and Dates:

• 8 weeks
• June 16 - August 10, 2021 (some flexibility if needed)
• July 4^th is a work day
• Work some nights and weekends
• Usually scheduled 35-40 hours/week

Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from an undergraduate program or graduate program in museum studies, history, public history, education, material culture, or related field
• Coursework in history and/or education
• Interest in museums and/or maritime history
• Experience working with children
• Experience working with the public
• Excellent computer skills
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Gmail, Facebook, Zoom, YouTube, Instagram, and Photoshop elements
• Familiarity with PastPerfect a plus, training available

Compensation

• $4,100 stipend paid in biweekly installments

Review of applicants will begin February 15th, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit cover letter, resume, writing sample, transcripts (official or unofficial) and one letter of recommendation as .pdfs to Jeana Ganskop, education director, at jganskop@pmm-maine.org.

This internship description is based on the expectation that the 2021 season will be based on a hybrid model where PMM either offers guided walking tours of the campus or some of the exhibits are open for self-guided tours and programming is offered both online and in-person. All museum access and programming will be dynamic and will react to changes in the pandemic and the associated guidelines issued by the state and this internship will adapt accordingly. This is a guaranteed, grant-funded internship.