Department Coordinator, Fashion, Textiles, and Jewelry

Key Responsibilities • Leads the key administrative initiatives for the department, following museum practices and policies. • Ensures compliance in all paperwork for all acquisitions, loans, and deaccessioning by the Collections Committee, working closely with departmental colleagues, the Manager of Collections Documentation, registrars, gifts of art office, and external contacts to process, ship, and register acquisitions, loans, and deaccessions. • Supervises the annual audit of the department’s collection, ensuring all locations and labeling are accurate and up-to-date. • Works closely with the department Chair on the oversight of the departmental budget and maintaining the budget throughout the year (revenue and expense); tasks include submitting fiscal year budgets, quarterly forecasts, transfers, requests for payments, reconciliations, expense reports, and general record keeping. • Perform other duties as needed or requested specific to the Department of Fashion, Textiles, and Jewelry, including but not limited to: coordinating and recording object study visits; assisting in coordination of departmental rotations throughout the museum; assessing requests for Rights and Licensing regarding use of images for publication; fielding questions from Main Library Staff regarding FTJ Library maintenance and access