{"id":9833,"date":"2014-03-25T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T18:41:46","slug":"conservator-the-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/03\/25\/conservator-the-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservator, The Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Position Announcement<\/span><\/b><br \/>\nConservator at The Strong<br \/>\nThe Strong seeks an experienced and energetic professional to direct the conservation of The Strong\u2019s varied collections including a comprehensive array of toys, board games, dollhouse miniatures, and arcade video games and to supervise four staff members.<br \/>\nThe successful candidate must have superior oral and written communication skills, experience in and enthusiasm for working collaboratively in a team-based environment, capacity for strategic thinking and planning, and ability both to delegate and to lead by example.<br \/>\nQualifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced degree in conservation.<\/li>\n<li>Significant experience in relevant artifact conservation, including digital.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated skills in project management and supervision.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of key issues and standards in lighting and environmental conditions and experience with their application in artifact storage and exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Commitment to quality guest service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Strong is the only collections-based museum anywhere devoted solely to the study of play and its critical role in learning and human development.\u00a0 It holds the world\u2019s most comprehensive collection of toys, dolls, board games, electronic games, and other artifacts of play; a library of almost 150,000 volumes; and a growing collection of related, national significant personal, corporate, and other archival materials.\u00a0 The Strong\u2019s collections, 285,000 square-foot facility, and nearly 600,000 annual visitors place it among the largest history museums in the nation.<br \/>\nThe Strong requires all applicants to complete an online application to be considered for employment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestrong.org\">www.thestrong.org<\/a> and click on Employment at the bottom of the homepage. Candidates without access to Internet Explorer may apply with their credentials to: <a href=\"mailto:jobs@museumofplay.org\">jobs@museumofplay.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position Announcement Conservator at The Strong The Strong seeks an experienced and energetic professional to direct the conservation of The Strong\u2019s varied collections including a comprehensive array of toys, board games, dollhouse miniatures, and arcade video games and to supervise four staff members. The successful candidate must have superior oral and written communication skills, experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/03\/25\/conservator-the-strong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conservator, The Strong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"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-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}