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: 2010
September 22-25:
American Association for State and Local History annual conference, Oklahoma City.

Online Opportunities

>> Museumwise (formerly Upstate History Alliance)
Mini Courses. For course descriptions and registration information, www.museumwise.org. 

>> SOLINET Preservation Classes
For more information or to register, contact Education Services at 1-800-999-8558, es@solinet.net or visit our website at http://www.solinet.net. Click on Classes and Events for full descriptions and online registration. These classes are funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.

>> The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Preservation 101 - Online Preservation Course
The Northeast Document Conservation Center is pleased to announce a suite of new products that address the training needs of archivists,  librarians, and museum and historical society professionals. The free, online tools were developed primarily with grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and ongoing support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for NEDCC's Field Service program. NEDCC is grateful to the many project partners and participants who helped develop these products.

THE FOLLOWING ARE LINKS TO NEW TOOLS:
dPlan: The Online Disaster Planning Tool, is currently being used by more than 2,400 individuals to write institutional disaster plans. dPlan Lite, a streamlined response tool, will be made available by October 2, 2008, to simplify the process for smaller institutions: www.dplan.org

Preservation 101 is a free distance-education course on preservation administration designed especially for practitioners who don't have ready access to training opportunities. It is also useful as a handy reference for professionals who receive inquiries from the public:
www.preservation101.org

Toolkit on Surveying Digital Readiness contains checklists and information to help institutions contract for an in-depth survey of the preservation needs of their digital holdings. The tools also support digital preservation consultants who undertake such surveys:
www.nedcc.org/resources/digtools.php

Toolkit on What's Wrong With This Picture contains readings and  resources on preservation and digitization of photograph collections, based on a highly successful three-day workshop series: www.nedcc.org/resources/wwwtptools.php

Preservation Education Curriculum is an instructor's guide for a semester-long preservation course for graduate programs in librarianship and archives. It includes 13 detailed lesson plans with activities, assignments, and readings, as well as an online image library to help illustrate each lesson. The balance of topics represents consensus among a national advisory committee of preservation experts and educators: www.nedcc.org/curriculum/lesson.introduction.php

The Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEP) framework is a cooperative planning process for area-wide disasters that brings together state agencies, cultural institutions, emergency management agencies, and first responders: www.nedcc.org/services/disaster.costep.php

A new edition of NEDCC'S Preservation Leaflets, updated and  expanded, will be available by December 2008. It includes new topics such as disaster planning for digital assets and moving library collections: www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.introduction.php   (http://northeastdocumentconservationcenter.cmail3.com/l/512659/4r4lqi1t/d )

We welcome your feedback. If you would like to comment on the Center's new preservation tools, contact Julie Martin, jmartin@nedcc.org

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

Workshops

>> American Association of Museums' Professional Education
schedule can be found at www.aam-us.org.

>> American Association for State and Local History
A roster of workshops for 2010 can be found 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 Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies 2010
Course Catalogue can be accessed at www.campbellcenter.org.

>> National Preservation Institute
For the 2010 listing of professional seminars in historic preservation and cultural resource management that are offered by NPI, please visit www.npi.org.

>> The Society of American Archivists
Find SAA’s workshop series education calendar at www.archivists.org/prof-education/course_catalog.asp. Class topics include Implementing DACS in Integrated Content Management Systems, Financial Management Basics, or Archivists and Management of Cultural Institutions all offered this fall. Email education@archivists.org for more information.

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 Museumwise (formerly 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.


2008-2009 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

NYC Salary Data Available
Professionals for NonProfits has published its 2009 salary survey for New York City Nonprofits.  Data includes arts organizations.

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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