Position at Winterthur Museum

Scientist/Senior Scientist
Winterthur Museum
Academic Affairs Division, Conservation Department

Full Time, 35 hours/week

Job Description: Winterthur Museum is seeking9 candidates to fill
the position of Scientist/Senior Scientist to lead their Scientific
Research and Analysis Laboratory (SRAL) in a dynamic conservation
science and research program whose mission is the interpretation and
preservation of cultural heritage through object-based research and
analysis, collection preservation, and education.  The
Scientist/Senior Scientist will enhance the visibility of the
Conservation Department and its associated professional partnerships
through advocacy and development.  S/he will provide support and
teaching to the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art
Conservation (WUDPAC), a Master's-level graduate program with a
three-year curriculum designed to educate and prepare students to be
conservators of cultural heritage.

This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity in
conservation science leadership and education in the midst of a
pre-eminent collection of 89,000 objects made and used in America
from 1630 - 1860, 20th century Winterthur Estate materials and over
500,000 documents, books, manuscripts, and images in Winterthur's
research library

In addition to SRAL, the Conservation Department includes eight
other laboratories staffed by leading professionals in paper,
furniture, objects, textiles, library and archival materials,
preventive, and paintings conservation, photography, and collection
care.  The personnel of the SRAL includes another full-time
scientist and retired scientist volunteers.  A University of
Delaware Professor of Conservation Science is closely affiliated
with the SRAL.

Winterthur's SRAL instrumentation includes XRF (handheld and
laboratory-based), reflective and transmitted ultraviolet and
visible light spectrometers, a near infrared reflectance
spectrometer, FTIR, SEM-EDS, GC-MS, pyGC-MS, Raman, XRD, and LC-MS.

Job Requirements:

    A Ph.D. in chemistry, materials science, archaeometry, forensic
    science or related fields combined with a minimum of five/eight
    years postgraduate/postdoctoral experience in cultural heritage
    scientific research is required

    The successful candidate must demonstrate both teaching and
    scholarly achievement, including evidence of postgraduate
    original research, publications, or other projects that show
    intellectual ability, innovation, and accomplishment in a
    relevant field

    Support of the museum's conservation efforts are an integral
    component of the position and the candidate must be committed to
    extensive collaboration with museum conservators, curators,
    related staff, and WUDPAC faculty and students

    Administrative responsibilities of the Scientist/Senior
    Scientist include the development and oversight of the
    laboratory budget, instrument maintenance and service contracts,
    and analytical documentation

    The Scientist/Senior Scientist should have a demonstrated track
    record of proposal preparation and the administration of
    grant-funded projects

    Experience with instrument operation and interpretation of data
    from a wide range of analytical techniques is expected

    Knowledge of a broad array of organic and inorganic materials,
    their degradation mechanisms and treatment assessments is
    desirable

    In addition to analysis of the Winterthur Collections, the
    Scientist/Senior Scientist will conduct analysis of
    archaeological, ethnographic, modern and contemporary
    artwork/objects through WUDPAC student projects.

    The successful candidate will demonstrate:

        Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with staff,
        students, museum and university colleagues, donors, and the
        general public

        Creative thinking and solutions-based problem-solving, and

        Superior organizational abilities with a high attention to
        detail

        A proven ability to work both collaboratively and
        independently while managing multiple tasks simultaneously
        is required.

This position reports to the Director of Conservation.

Salary will be commensurate with experience.

To apply, send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, writing
sample, and contact information for three professional references
familiar with your conservation science experience to:
jobs<-at->winterthur<.>org.

Review of applications will begin as of August 15, 2016 and continue
until the position is filled.

Joelle Wickens, PhD
Conservator, Preventive Team Head and Affiliated Assistant Professor
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Winterthur DE 19735
302-888-4714
Fax: 302/888-4838


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