The Museum of Modern Art is
currently accepting applications for a temporary Researcher to join its
Development team. Please see responsibilities and requirements below.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Conducts
donor and prospect research on individuals, corporations, and foundations via
online and standard research sources.  Prepares and writes donor and
prospect profile reports for use by Museum staff. Creates and maintains
research files on members/donors. Uploads constituents to Blackbaud Wealth
Screen software and verifies data.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s
degree. Excellent organizational and analytical skills, with attention to
detail. Strong written and verbal skills. Ability to produce under deadlines.
Familiarity with internet, Lexis-Nexis, Foundation Center, Blackbaud
ResearchPoint, Salesforce and other reference materials. Proficiency with
Microsoft Office and database work. Development experience preferred along with
art interest. Work schedule will be 5 days per week for 6 months.

TO APPLY: Please submit
resume and cover letter to lisa_caputo@moma.org by January 23, 2013. Please
reference the position title in the subject line. No phone calls please.

The Museum of Modern Art is
an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment
regardless of race, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability,
marital status, sexual orientation or political affiliation.

Initially, this position will be deeply
involved in the administration and technical oversight of MediaBin, the
museum's digital asset management system. Looking forward, the person in
this position will have a key role to play in any initiative that
involves the management of digitized assets at the Museum, including
system upgrades or migration to a new DAM, task automation, application
customization, troubleshooting, reporting and other digitization
procedures.

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide
  technical expertise for enterprise content management systems, based
  upon a strong understanding of the client server environment, web
  services, security roles etc. as well as demonstrated experience with a
  variety of image, audio and video formats.
• Serve as primary
  technical liaison to internal stakeholders and external vendors and
  consultants for all digital asset management activities and related
  projects.
• Work with IS&T and/or contractual partners to
  design, specify, execute and monitor data migration/synchronization
  tasks between various Museum data repositories.
• Streamline acquisitions, deployments and conversions of multimedia content for both internal and external uses.
• Design,
  develop, and maintain reports for the Museum’s content management
  systems (e.g., production workflows, digital rights management,
  licensing activities).
• Review, analyze, and evaluate system and
  user needs. Assist in the development and deployment of solutions based
  on user requirements.
• Evaluate, maintain and install systems
  upgrades and fixes. Coordinate changes with technical staff and affected
  users, as required.
• Other related duties

Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience and Skills:

• 3+ years experience in information / content management.
• Demonstrated experience with data services in Microsoft SQL Server, or equivalent RDBMS
• Demonstrated experience with web-related application development in Visual Basic, .NET, Java or equivalent programming language.
• Demonstrated skill with IIS or equivalent web service infrastructure.
• Demonstrated skill with PC & MAC client-server systems and architectures.
• Experience with end-user support and service; strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Preferred:
  experience with technical implementation and maintenance of digital
  asset or other enterprise content management systems (especially
  MediaBin).
• Preferred: knowledge of digitization processes for
  content, including digital image capture and scanning, image, audio and
  video formats and codecs, file conversion and archiving, data mining and
  harvesting, and metadata taxonomies.

Knowledge and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant technical certification (preferred in a related field)
• Knowledge
  of digitization processes for content, including digital image capture
  and scanning, image, audio and video formats and codecs, file conversion
  and archiving data

See: http://www.indeed.com/cmp/The-Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art/jobs/Technical-Architect-2363f869e0a4f768

Internship Description:

The Museum of the City of New York has assumed management of the Seaport Museum and now seeks library school students interested in library internships.  Interns will work with two librarians/archivists and will assist with a large inventory and cataloging project for the museum's collection of books.  Interns will have the opportunity to gain experience using WorldCat, the museum's internal database, and assisting with a potential weeding project.

Requirements:

Inters are required for a minimum commitment of one full day a week (7 hours), scheduled during the Monday-Friday workweek.  Internships are unpaid.  Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Masters program for Library Science.  Interns must be able to lift boxes weighing up to 40 pounds.

To be considered for this opportunity, please send a resume and cover letter to Anne DiFabio, Assistant Archivist, adifabio@seany.org.