Welcome to MANY’s Career Headquarters

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What You’ll Find Here:

• How to Post a Position Listing
• Position Listings
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Human Resource Issues & Answers (including links to other job listings!)
    

How to Post a Position Listing

NEW!  MANY Position Listings Now Online!

Need to list a position quickly? Want to list for a short amount of time…or maybe for several months? Want to be in control of when to list?

To serve you better, MANY has shifted its entire position listing program from its monthly e-newsletter format to its website under Career HQ.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. To be listed, jobs must be museum, culture, or humanities related.
2. Using our template, you create the job listing.
3. You select the length of time the listing will appear on the website.
4. You pay for the listing with a credit card at the time you submit it. If you do not have a credit card, select INVOICE and we will send you an invoice by email for snail mail.
5. New job listings are usually posted on MANY's web site immediately.

Rates

	Length of Time	MANY Member  Rate	Non-Member  Rate
	1 week	$15	$25
	2 weeks	$25	$45
	3 weeks	$35	$60
	1 month	$45	$75
	2 months	$75	$140
	3 months	$100	$175
	4 months	$150	$220
	5 months	$200	$285
	6 months	$230	$350

And, don’t forget:

Equal Employment Opportunity is the law. It is prohibited to discriminate in hiring and all other aspects of employment on the basis of gender, race, age, sex, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category. For guidelines, visit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Job listing content is the sole responsibility of the originating organization. MANY reserves the right to refuse illegal or "spam" job listings.

Making Changes to a Listing
If you would like to make changes to a listing you have already submitted, or if you notice errors in a listing that has already been posted on the web site, please email your changes to info@manyonline.org.

Questions?
If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions, please email us at info@manyonline.org

Get started here!

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Positions

Click here for the position listings, or to enter a new position listing.
 

Professional Development Opportunities
Calendar: 2008
September 23 & 24:  A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections, Philadelphia, PA, presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts.  This comprehensive 2-day conference is intended for museums, archives and libraries of all sizes.  The fee for this two-day conference is $225 for CCAHA members and $250 for non-members. SPECIAL OFFER:  When registering more than one individual from the same institution, each additional registrant will receive a $25.00 discount.  Download a registration form from http://www.ccaha.org/index.php/education/program-calendar.  Any questions? Go to   www.ccaha.org <http://www.ccaha.org/> , call 215-545-0613 or email pso@ccaha.org.

October 21-25:  National Preservation Conference 2008 – Preservation In Progress, Tulsa, Oklahoma. For more information, go to http://www.nthpconference.org

October 26-29:  Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums 2008 Annual Meeting, MAAM on the Mall - The Museum as a Story Teller, Washington, DC.  For information, www.midatlanticmuseums.org.

Looking for Online Courses?

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (Nedcc) Announces Preservation 101 - The New Online Preservation Course
PRESERVATION 101 is a free, comprehensive, self-paced online course on the
preservation of paper collections and related formats.

THE COURSE IS ACCESSIBLE FREE OF CHARGE at www.preservation101.org, and is intended to benefit professionals who are responsible for the preservation of library and archival materials.  Participants will learn how to put preservation basics to work in the context of small and moderately-sized collections - how to identify deteriorated materials, how to care for collections, and how to set priorities for preservation.

GOALS FOR PRESERVATION 101:
 -  To educate those working with paper-based and related media collections about the basics of preservation
-  To help users raise their level of knowledge about preservation and better understand their collections' preservation needs
-  To enable and motivate users to take action, including implementing practices and planning, on both a short-term and long-term basis
-  To help users make the case for preservation in their institution
-  To provide access to more specialized information

We are interested in your feedback. Send your comments about  Preservation 101 to: jcarlson@nedcc.org

Also check out www.museumclasses.org for online courses.

Preventive Care Workshops Cornell University 2008

September 12-14 (Friday – Sunday)
October 17-19 (Friday – Sunday)
November 21-23 (Friday – Sunday)

In 2008, the Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance of Cornell University is offering three, three-day workshops for NYS residents on the Preventive Care of Historic and Artistic Works on Paper, and Photographic Materials.

Each workshop will address principle make-up of the artifact and its affect on longevity, mechanisms of deterioration, condition concerns, appropriate handling, compatible storage materials and storage options. Participants will visit the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collection at Kroch Library, and will have hands-on experience at the Graphics Conservation Laboratory.

Placement is limited to six participants per each workshop. The workshops are ideal for curators, artists, registrars and other professionals responsible for the handling and preservation of these types of works.

For more information, please visit this web site:  http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/announcements/index.html

Funded by the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials

Workshops

Find the complete roster of American Association for State and Local History workshops for 2008 at www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm.

Respected professionals in the field develop the series and each workshop is designed with limited class sizes to give you the best professional development experience. 

The 2008 American Association of Museums’ Professional Education schedule can be found at www.aam-us.org.

For the 2008 listing of professional seminars in historic preservation and cultural resource management that are offered by the National Preservation Institute, please visit www.npi.org.

Technical Assistance
The New York Folklore Society offers short-term technical assistance to individuals, organizations, folklorists, and community scholars who are involved in the documentation and presentation of folklore and folk arts in New York State. For information, Eileen Condon, Outreach Coordinator, 518-346-7008 x2; or visit www.nyfolklore.org. 

Travel Funds
Use NYSCA GO! Grants to register or travel to many of these development opportunities. Contact the Upstate History Alliance for more information, 800-895-1648; info@upstatehistory.org 

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Human Resource Issues & Answers

Job Listings & Career Information

MuseumStuff.com - Topical directory pages on items of interest to those who work in and around museums. One of the directories lists websites for job searching in the museum profession.

Museum employment - Excellent site for internship and full-time opportunities in U.S. museums and other cultural resource institutions. Also offers links to museum studies graduate programs and a resume posting service.

Museum Resource Board - Museum yellow pages, job, internship, and resume boards, museum education and training information.

Aviso Employment Resources Online - Job bank for museum professionals (includes internships, fellowships) and links to career information. (American Association of Museums' job bank)

Preserve/Net - Architectural preservation job listings, including internships, and links to other websites such as the Smithsonian internships

Global Museum - International museum webzine read in over 90 countries. Features museum news, vacancies.

US Museum Directory - Directory of US museum website links.

Museophile - Virtual library of international museums webpages. Also has discussion forums.

Smithsonian Institution Office of Human Resources Job descriptions - Provides job descriptions for many museum jobs.


2006-2007 MANY Salary and Benefits Survey

• Annual salary information for 72 positions reported by 123 New York State institutions
• Full-time and part-time positions reported
• Data sorted by budget size, institution location and discipline

• benefits benchmarking, including insurance, retirement programs, vacations and leaves
• financial statistics
• policy trends
• staff recruitment, training and evaluation trends

Compensating Museum Management and Staff: What is Fair and Reasonable?
Download this report by Lawrence Associates, which was presented at this year's Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference in Philadelphia. The report explores the human resource challenges facing museums and historical organizations in the mid-Atlantic region in the coming years; discusses practices related to employee compensation and non-monetary recognition; and provides some useful direction when thinking about executive compensation. Lawrence Associates is a Massachusetts-based compensation consulting firm.

Check out the following Web sites for comparative salary and benefit data:

      http://www.nonprofitstaffing.com/salarysurvey.asp

http://www.careerbuilder.com/salary/salary.html
and the salary wizard

http://www.abbott-langer.com/snofsumm.html
an NPO benefits study

There are several studies about salaries in NPOs, which cost money to access, but these sites have a theme -- salaries are rising:

http://www.tmcenter.org/quarterly/9_comp.html

http://www.nptimes.com/Feb01/sr1.html

http://www.guidestar.org/services/comp_price.stm

A helpful resource for crafting/revising personnel policies is Creating Your Employee Handbook: A Do-it-Yourself Kit for Non-Profits by Leyna Bernstein, published by Jossey-Bass. The book offers 3 versions of each policy: the Creative Approach, primarily for small or informal organizations; the By-the-Book Approach, for mid-sized or traditional agencies; and the Leading-Edge Approach, for large or progressive institutions.

It comes with sample policies on disk to make it easy to edit to fit your organization. It also has an index of state-specific policies and includes good suggestions on formatting the handbook.

You will still want legal counsel to review your policies, but this book helps get the right philosophies and words down on paper. It costs about $55.

Daring to Lead:  Nonprofit Executive Directors and Their Work Experience is a report published by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (August 2001) that examines professional experience, compensation, tenure trends, and executive training and support.  The data is based on the responses of more than 1,000 executive directors from around the country.  Among the key findings:

* Women substantially outnumber men in nonprofit executive director positions -- in most regions they make up 60% or more of the population; men disproportionately lead large agencies.

* Women executives are paid less than their male counterparts for the same jobs, with the differential being especially acute among large agencies.

* Despite enjoying their work and reporting to be very skilled at it, fewer than half of current executives plan to take on another executive director role.

* The most significant challenges are high stress, long hours, anxiety about agency finances, fundraising, and managing people.

* Boards have an impact on executive tenure and satisfaction and on agency success.  Help with board development was requested by 23% of the respondents.

This 46-page report is available at:  www.compasspoint.org/research/Daring.pdf

Also worth checking into is Professional Development in the 21st Century:  A Survey of ASTC CEOs (1999). Sponsored by the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the survey looks at the extent and use of professional development, from conferences to journal subscriptions; their funding and impact.  Access the survey at www.astc.org.

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