Part-Time Museum Collections Intern

Layton City; Layton (UT); On-site; USD 14,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

Layton City is seeking a part-time Museum Collections Digitization Assistant to support the digitization of artifacts, photographs, and archival materials for the online collection. The role includes cataloging, researching historical context, and maintaining project records.

Responsibilities include photographing items, scanning archival materials, and updating the museum database. Some tasks related to the RAMP digitization project and additional duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

• Concurrent enrollment or recent graduation in a museum-related field.
• Knowledge of museum collections and archival materials is preferred.
• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and follows the City’s mission statement, values and expectations.
• Researches the historical identification and interpretation of artifacts, inventories the collection, photographs objects, scans archival material, and updates database records.
• Documents and maintains progress of research projects in a work journal.
• Photographs and digitizes artifacts and documents for the Museum’s online collection database.
• Performs additional tasks related to the Museum Collections Digitization RAMP Project and other duties as required.

Skills

Artifact research

Cataloging

Digitization

Photography

Documentation

Education

Museum studies-related degree

Tools

Museum database

Job description

PAY

$12.57 Per Hour

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Promotes and follows the City's mission statement, values and expectations.
• Conducts research of the historical identification and interpretation of museum artifacts, photographs, documents, and other items with historical significance; inventories the artifact collection, photographs museum objects, scans archival material, scans the photographic collection and updates museum database records for the artifacts.
• Documents and maintains progress of research projects in work journal.
• Photographs and digitizes museum artifacts, photographs, documents, and other items for the Museum's online collection database.
• Performs additional tasks related to the Museum Collections Digitization RAMP Project and other related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Concurrent enrollment or recent graduation from a degree program in museum studies, art history, public history, history, anthropology, archaeology or related field.

WORK HOURS

Part-time position. Incumbent of the position must be able to work Saturdays as needed.