Employment Information
- Post ID: 221818158
- Open Date: April 23, 2025
- Close Date: June 5, 2025
- Organization: Orangedale Station Museum
- Sector: Culture & Religion
- Business Location:1428 Village Road, Orangedale, Nova Scotia B0E 2K0
- Total Views: 207
- Duration: 6 calendar days (5 business days)
- Last Updated: 6 days ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/orangedale/221818158/recording-technician-museum/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $15.70 per hour / 35 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2025-07-01
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Operate audio-visual equipment
- Prepare reports
- Assist in the research, handling and storage of artifacts
- Assist in the restoration and conservation of artifacts under the direction of a conservator
- Assist with the planning and development of travelling exhibitions and special events
- 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
- Fabricate custom frames, measure and cut mats, mat enhancements and glass, and mount paintings, photographs and other art work
- Protect and care for cultural artifacts and collections during exhibitions, while in transit and in storage
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Office
- MS Excel
Technical experience
- Cataloging
- Conservation and restoration
- Curatorial assisting
- Exhibit preparation
- Interpretation/guiding
- Picture Framing
Exhibit preparation experience
- Display cases
- Lighting
- Mounting/installing objects
- Matting prints and drawings
- Dioramas
- Shipping crates and forms
- Framing paintings, photographs etc.
- Models
Specialization or experience
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
Area of specialization
- Book
- Decorative arts
- Photography
- Prints and drawings
Additional information
Security and safety
- Basic security clearance
- Driver’s validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver’s licence
- Own transportation
- Public transportation is not available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
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
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities