{"id":11814,"date":"2015-01-12T14:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11814"},"modified":"2015-01-12T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T19:16:54","slug":"job-posting-project-conservator-penn-museum-conservation-philadelphia-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/12\/job-posting-project-conservator-penn-museum-conservation-philadelphia-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Posting: Project Conservator &#8211; Penn Museum Conservation (Philadelphia, PA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Museum Conservation has a three-year opening for a Project Conservator, providing conservation support for the upcoming move of approximately 40,000 objects to an off-site facility.<br \/>\nThe Project Conservator is responsible for carrying out a conservation survey of objects to be moved as result of a large construction project. The primary duties include, but are not limited to, assessing the condition of the objects with regard to the move to new storage locations; making recommendations for storage and transit mounts; carrying out necessary treatments to stabilize objects prior to transport; working with Curatorial and Collections staff to facilitate the safe transit of collections to off-site storage. This is a three-year term position, with renewal subject to available funding and Museum needs<br \/>\nThe candidate must be a graduate of a recognized Masters-level conservation training program with two-three years of professional experience as a conservator, preferably in a similar institution or equivalent education and experience. Strong organizational skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to undertake moderate to heavy lifting are essential.<br \/>\nWe would like to fill this position as soon as possible as the move has to begin this spring.<br \/>\n<strong>All applications must be made via the University of Pennsylvania Human Resources website: <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.hr.upenn.edu\/postings\/8228\">https:\/\/jobs.hr.upenn.edu\/postings\/8228<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Museum Conservation has a three-year opening for a Project Conservator, providing conservation support for the upcoming move of approximately 40,000 objects to an off-site facility. The Project Conservator is responsible for carrying out a conservation survey of objects to be moved as result of a large construction project. The primary duties include, but are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/12\/job-posting-project-conservator-penn-museum-conservation-philadelphia-pa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job Posting: Project Conservator &#8211; Penn Museum Conservation (Philadelphia, PA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}