Post Date:
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Company Name:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Address:
151 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Contact Name:
Nina Manno
Email:
nmanno@sfmoma.org
Job Description:
Responsibilities & Duties
Team Leadership
- Encourages and contributes to an inclusive, rewarding, and inspiring workplace, where innovation, discovery, and constant learning cultivate a deep sense of belonging and shared responsibility within the collections information team and larger AAR team.
- Builds and fosters a culture of safety, inclusivity, and equity , and supports the personal and professional growth of individuals.
- Works in a healthy and flexible management style that understands and adjusts to staff needs and supports strategic pursuits and sustainable workloads.
- Nurtures collaboration and partnership across teams with fluid communication and respect for diverse expertise that are essential to an art museum.
- Supports effective and efficient communication and workflows, prioritizes activities, and ensures that the collections information team has the resources they need to do their jobs.
- Models empathy and understanding, communicates clearly, and can explain the benefits of changing practices and behaviors to meet the needs of colleagues, teams, and projects.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the museum’s strategic focus of making programming that engages visitors and inspires individuals to return and recommend the museum to their family and friends.
- Supports the museum’s strategic focus with processes and guardrails to ensure we move towards the same goals and pivot away from activities that do not support the strategy.
- Works collaboratively with managers and colleagues across the museum to ensure that the department’s operations around collections information management align with internal and external needs and expectations.
- Represents the museum through conference presentations, guest lecturing, committee work, mentoring, and publications.
Information Management Leadership
- Owns sustainable policies, procedures, and workflows for contributing, accessing, and using information via the CMS, in ways that reflect extensive, in-depth knowledge and understanding of information management and data architecture principles and best practices.
- Oversees workflows related to delivering data to internal and external downstream applications like websites, apps, and digital repositories.
- Contributes leadership and creativity in developing and supporting projects that use data related to artworks, artists, and museum programs such as accessions, deaccessions, exhibitions, loans, and archives.
- Assists in tracking data on collections information-related projects and finds creative ways to share and apply the information for decision-making.
- Participates in long range planning as it relates to the creation, management, and use of information, documentation, and digital assets.
- Works with Director of AAR and administrators of integrated applications to help continue growth of products and services related to data.
CMS Administration
- Provides day-to-day and long-range administrative oversight of the CMS.
- Troubleshoots issues related to errors and other issues with the database and integrated applications, and works with IT to address underlying aspects related to operating systems and hardware.
- Collaborates with content owners for standardization of field usage, preferred terminology, and vocabulary authority controls.
- Produces and distributes regular reports on actions and activities related to the system.
- Applies project management methodologies for the CMS and related projects.
- Serves as primary liaison to CMS vendor for user concerns; escalates support requests as needed, reports bugs, and submits feature requests.
- In close partnership with Information Technology, plans system customizations, upgrades, integrations, testing, and maintenance.
- Supports data mapping and integrations between the CMS and other platforms and content management systems, such as the Digital Asset Management System (NetX)
- Writes SQL scripts as needed for data management and assisting users with complex queries.
- Develops detailed plans for feature enhancements and architectural changes based on information provided by the Collections Information User Support Specialist and otherwise gathered from users about their needs.
- Plans and manages large scale data clean-up projects to improve data integrity, quality assurance, and normalization.
Administration
- Supervises, establishes priorities, trains, and mentors collections information staff, interns, and volunteers.
- With Director of AAR, ensures that collections information staff have the support needed to prioritize and complete assigned projects.
- Oversees collections information projects and provides the Director of AAR and stakeholders with updates on the progress and impact of high-profile projects.
- Reviews and aligns in-house system documentation and user’s guides with current data policies and procedures.
Qualifications & Skills
- Degree in Information Studies, Museum Studies, Art, or a related field. MLIS or MA preferred.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience with collection management systems in an administrative capacity.
- Strong relational database skills.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Minimum one (1) year of supervisory experience.
- Experience with digital asset management systems.
- Expertise with data standards and knowledge of published vocabularies, standards, linked data tools, taxonomy management tools, and inclusive practices.
- Experience with digital project and program management.
- Experience with needs analysis, user support, training and adoption.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent technical and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational and follow-through skills.
- Excellent communication skills, including writing procedures and documentation.
- Solid analytic skills to improve processes.
- Demonstrated commitment to principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability in the arts sector.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, with challenging and often simultaneous deadlines.
- Detail-oriented and accustomed to using various tools to track and report projects' status.
- Supervisory skills that support, lead, and motivate individuals.
- High levels of initiative, innovation, creativity, and leadership skills.
- Knowledge of modern and contemporary art and museum purposes, organization, and programs.
- Knowledge of collections and exhibitions management methods and conservation practices.
- Proficiency with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), Airtable and Asana or other project management software platforms.
Pay Range
$76,703 - $92,829 a year
For more information and to apply, please visit the SFMOMA job site.
Please contact talent@sfmoma.org with any application questions.