Curatorial Assistant

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 789972720
  • Posted Date: May 8, 2024
  • Closing Date: Jul 27, 2024
  • Company: The Exploration Place
  • Category: Hospitality & Tourism
  • Business Location:Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
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Job Details

  • Experience: Not required
  • Opening Positions: 2
  • Remuneration: $17.65 per hour / 35 to 40 hours per week
  • Commencement Date: As soon as possible
  • Education: High school graduation certificate
  • How to apply: email to [email protected]

Job Description

Tasks

  • Prepare reports
  • Assist in the research, handling and storage of artifacts
  • Classify and assign registration numbers to artifacts and supervise inventory control
  • Conduct guided tours of museums, gallery exhibitions and historical, heritage and other sites, answer inquiries and provide information
  • Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
  • Protect and care for cultural artifacts and collections during exhibitions, while in transit and in storage
  • Maintain and manage digital database
  • Organize noncurrent archives and develop cataloguing and retrieval systems to allow access to archival materials

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Immunization records

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Team player

Benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • On-site amenities