Senior Curator Archeology in Ancient Worlds // Museum Landmark

Position Details

Job Purpose

The Senior Curator /Curator is responsible for the strategy, narrative and collections proposals and implementation for the department. The role holder will manage strategic goals, developing research activities and content that enchances the museum's reputation, developing collaborative partnerships with national and international museum committees. The role holder will conceptualise new exhibitions related to the wing and work across the team to enhance the Museum' s offerings.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develops the medium and long terms proposals for strategies defined by the SCCM Director on exhibitions and displays, proposing potential acquisitions and research opportunities relating to 10000 BCE to 500 CE collections.
• Manages and develops the units budget, along with the administrative, legal and financial actions for the wing.
• Reviews, advices and refines the wing's project proposals and feasibility reports supporting in providing timeframes, funding parameters and resource allocation.
• Reviews the wing's progress and analyses the reports on trends of visitor activities and provides advice and recommendations for further actions to the department Director.
• Supports the wing's activities in complex, blocked and other unforeseen circumstances that are impacting the delivery of daily activities, projects or potential implementation.
• Regularly evaluates and ensures the wing's current research, implementation and maintenance procedures are aligned to internationally recognised standards.
• Supports in the initiatives of the other department's across the Museum including, but not limited to, collections development and acquisition strategy and content planning in the mediation and education policy.
• Subject matter expert on one of the fields related to 10000 BCE to 500 CE through continuous self learning to enhance the wings knowledge offerings, understanding and techniques on current collections and on researching of artefacts that are of future interest to the Museum.
• Enhances the Museum's international reputation through actively developing personal research by the way of publications and contribution in conferences (inside and outside the institution), while also looking to enhance opportunities for loans and development relating to the 10000 BCE to 500 CE wing's collection.
• Ensure transfer of knowledge to team members and provide appropriate on the job training opportunities.
• Manages the collection for the wing, developing preventive and curative conservation policies, supervising restoration actions projects in liaison with Preventive Conservation Unit and creates the displays in liaison with Museography Unit. 
• Creates and develops the content planned in the mediation and education policy relating to wing.
  Ensures operational excellence in achieving KPIs, working towards establishing a sustainable financial model by achieving any set financial targets and driving internal process improvement and efficiency.
• As a brand ambassador the role holder will consider the customer prospective in all your projects - working to understand and manage all stakeholders.
• As a leader, the role holder will create learning opportunities by collaboration, transfer of knowledge, or developing employees in your respective area, that drive employee engagement and growth across the Museum.

Working Environment Requirements

Normal administrative hours required but occasional rostering to work across weekends and/or evenings
(as directed by the business from time to time)

Team Size

1-5

Minimum Experience Requirements

• 7 - 10 years of experience post graduate experience
• Experience as Curator and Head of Section in a museum or related
  institution
• Fluency in Arabic and English
  

Minimum Education

• PhD degree in History of Art, Archaeology, Museology or Museum studies
• 5 - 12 published articles (international review)

Preferred Experience Requirements

• Experience teaching in the academic institutions at university grade
• Experience of public engagement, lectures, presentations at international level