Staff - Non UnionJob Category M&P - AAPSJob Profile AAPS Salaried - Museum, Level CJob Title Collections Curator - Biodiversity InformaticsDepartment Administrative Leadership | Operations | Beaty Biodiversity Museum | Faculty of ScienceCompensation Range $6,747.50 - $9,701.42 CAD MonthlyThe Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.Posting End Date April 14, 2025Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.Job End Date May 31, 2027This is a part-time position at 0.50FTE (17.5 hours/week). Note that compensation will be prorated accordingly.At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.Job SummaryThe Beaty Biodiversity Museum, part of UBC's Beaty Biodiversity Centre, houses over 2.1 million natural history specimens, presents educational programs and exhibits and includes a teaching lab, auditorium, and a museum store. The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is divided into several major collections - Spencer Entomological Collection, Cowan Tetrapod Collection, Fossil Collection, Fish Collection, Marine Invertebrate Collection and the Herbarium, which has several collections within itself.The collections and their associated data are a major resource for researchers, students, and the general public. Individual collection curators oversee the curation of data within their own collections. However, many aspects of informatics are handled at a Museum-wide level (e.g. data dissemination and back up, digitization, database and data storage infrastructure and best practices).Working directly with the Museum Director, this position is responsible for the museum-wide strategic direction of biodiversity informatics, e.g. data collection, storage, dissemination and research. The Collections Curator, Biodiversity Informatics will also work with the 6 collections curators to facilitate best practice in data collection, storage, handling and dissemination of data from individual collections.Organizational Status
Reports to the Museum Director for all scientific/data matters and to the Senior Operations Manager for general operational matters, finance and human resources. Consults and collaborates with museum staff, relevant faculty collections directors, and other campus and external partners and clients. Manages staff, technical contractors, interns, temporary employees, student workers and volunteers, directly or indirectly.Work PerformedThis position is responsible for all museum-wide aspects of scientific information and data relating to the collections: data acquisition, storage, preservation and use of data on the collections. Data curation specific to particular collections is the responsibility of the curator of that collection, but this position will work with individual collections as needed to promote best practices, i.e. developing, managing, implementing, executing and evaluating procedures and projects for high quality biodiversity informatics within the Museum. Specific duties include:
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