{"id":16187,"date":"2016-12-15T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2016-12-15T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:02:22","slug":"job-posting-conservator-cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-ny-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/12\/15\/job-posting-conservator-cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-ny-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Posting: Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (NY, NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This position is located at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (CHSDM). The employee is responsible for the preservation treatment of fragile objects in a variety of media, with particular emphasis on wooden objects and furniture in the collection of the Product Design and Decorative Arts (PDDA).<br \/>\n<strong>Duties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carries out preservation treatments on CHSDM collections in support of the long-term preservation and accessibility of the permanent collection.<\/li>\n<li>Develops proposals for the preservation component of collections maintenance projects with routine to complex housing and\/or storage needs.<\/li>\n<li>Fabricates custom housings, modifies commercial housings and storage equipment, and modifies existing housings and storage equipment to address routine through the complex structural, material, and long-term preservation needs for the full range of collection objects.<\/li>\n<li>Ensures that conservation labs and other relevant work spaces are operational for the range of preservation activities to be carried out in the project.<\/li>\n<li>Records object conditions and preservation treatments in the museum\u2019s collection database (TMS), documenting with photography as required and prioritizing future treatment requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Provides technical advice on archival preservation materials and products for use in the storage environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information and how to apply, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/GetJob\/ViewDetails\/459600300\">https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/GetJob\/ViewDetails\/459600300<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This position is located at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (CHSDM). The employee is responsible for the preservation treatment of fragile objects in a variety of media, with particular emphasis on wooden objects and furniture in the collection of the Product Design and Decorative Arts (PDDA). Duties Carries out preservation treatments on CHSDM collections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/12\/15\/job-posting-conservator-cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-ny-ny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job Posting: Conservator, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (NY, NY)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":13684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}