Collections Policy & Digital Platforms Specialist

Smithsonian Institution; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Insurance

Leave

Life Insurance

Long Term Care Insurance

Retirement Program

Job summary

The Smithsonian Institution is seeking a Collection Management Specialist in Washington, DC, to assist in drafting, editing, and organizing internal institutional and unit-level collections management policies, plans, guidelines, and procedures under senior staff guidance.

You will maintain multiple digital information sharing platforms and provide administrative and programmatic support for collections activities, including meeting logistics and progress reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience developing, reviewing, editing, and organizing collections management policies, plans and procedures.
• Ability to provide administrative, logistical, and programmatic support for collections initiatives.
• Experience maintaining digital information-sharing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Assist with development, drafting, writing, editing and review, and organizing Smithsonian collections management policies, plans, guidelines, procedures, and implementation documents at the institutional and unit levels.
• Carry out the maintenance of multiple internal and external programmatic and project-based digital information sharing platforms.
• Provide administrative and programmatic support for collections program activities by facilitating and preparing meeting agendas, schedules, logistics, meeting minutes, progress reports and associated documentation.

Skills

Policy drafting

Editing

Organizing policies

Administrative support

Digital platforms

Education

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education

LL.M.

Job description

The Smithsonian Institution is seeking a Collection Management Specialist in Washington, DC, to assist in drafting, editing, and organizing internal institutional and unit-level collections management policies, plans, guidelines, and procedures under senior staff guidance.

You will maintain multiple digital information sharing platforms and provide administrative and programmatic support for collections activities, including meeting logistics and progress reporting.