Job Title: Associate Conservator
Pay/Hours/Benefits: This is a full-time, salaried position with a pay range of $64,241 – $86,971.78 per annum. GW offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, time off & leave, retirement savings, tuition, well-being and various voluntary benefits. For program details and eligibility, please visit https://hr.gwu.edu/benefits-programs.
Institution/Working Address: The George Washington University Museum & The Textile Museum, The Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center (AFCCRC), 44930 Knoll Square, Ashburn, VA 20147.
Application Deadline: No deadline listed on the job advert.
Brief Description:
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum fosters the study and appreciation of art, history, and culture—both within the university and throughout the global community. The Textile Museum is an institution with a nearly one-hundred-year history, an established audience, and a respected collection of textile art representing six continents and five millennia. The conservation lab began practice in the late 1920s.
GW is currently seeking an Associate Conservator to join The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. The successful candidate will work within the conservation department and in close collaboration with other museum departments, including curatorial and exhibition production, collections management, education, communications, and advancement. Work is required at both the Foggy Bottom and Ashburn, Virginia Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center (AFCCRC) facilities.
The associate conservator’s main duties are in exhibition and outgoing loan preparation, and in preventive collections care. Supporting the museum’s priorities in emerging professional education, outreach, and collections-based research is also an important focus for the position.
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