M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Within Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum built upon Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative museum for Asia’s twenty-first century. The M+ Pavilion, which opened in September 2016, serves as the primary site for M+ exhibitions in the run-up to the completion of the M+ building. After M+ opens it will become a new space for artists, designers and organisations to stage independent small-scale exhibitions and events in the Art Park.
Conservator, Preventive (Ref: 18110) As part of the development of the team we are aiming to create a substantial Conservation team that will deal with the preventative and remedial conservation of the growing M+ Collection. The team will encompass various disciplines amongst which painting, objects, paper, photography and time-based media. For more information about the M+ Collection, team and building development, please go to: http://enews.westkowloon.hk/career/conservators.pdf Reporting to the Senior Conservator, you will be an integral part of a growing conservation team to set up guidelines for the adequate development of preservation and conservation activities within M+ for one of the leading collection on contemporary visual culture in the world. You will be responsible for: •playing an integral role to the development of collection care and policies, procedures, protocols and workflows within the museum. This includes developing preventive conservation procedures and policies for the safe access and long-term preservation of the museum's collection; •liaising and working in close collaboration with various internal departments on a comprehensive and unified museum environment as well as matters in relation to collection care. It includes advising on collection storage planning including but not limited to materials management but also including some specific equipment related to collection preservation strategy (for instance, cold storage for specific materials, anoxic facilities, etc.); •participating in extended preservation efforts such as developing guidelines for storage and display, and best practices for the proper care and handling of works in the collection. It includes setting documentation standards, reporting on mounts and installation fittings, and exhibition materials to ensure that transport, storage and display environments are not compromised by the presence or production of harmful compounds within construction materials and/or case materials. It may involve development and implementation of testing methods and protocols for air quality and material degradation; •developing and implementing a museum environment monitoring scheme to ensure agreed climatic conditions are maintained for the collection, providing reports with data analysis, undertaking routine monitoring and testing or measurement of other environmental factors such as light, vibration, dust and pollutant levels as well as coordinating recommendations with relevant environmental specialists when required; •supporting with expert recommendation the integrated pest management (IPM) strategy across all parts of the museum and storage facility; •providing leadership on developing and implementing assessment and management of risk programme for the M+ Collection that includes safe management and awareness of hazards within the collection, complying with current health and safety regulations and safe working practices; •playing a leading role in developing and implementing an emergency preparedness and disaster recovery plan for the M+ Collection; •supporting conservation team with condition checking, direct preventive conservation and minimal remedial conservation when required; •keeping current on state-of-the-art preservation materials, methods and techniques by reading relevant literature and attending presentations, seminars or training; and •contributing to advising and training staff in best practices for the care, handling, display, storage, packing and shipping, and supervising volunteers or interns as required. You should: •have a master degree in Conservation, Preservation Administration, Library Science, Archives Management or equivalent; •have at least 5 years of postgraduate relevant work experience in a museum, library, archive, or other cultural institution focused on collection management, preservation, or conservation is preferred; •be a good team player with good organising and communication skills demonstrated through a history of collaborative projects and/or preventive conservation policy development; •have significant experience in air quality testing, museum environment monitoring, material testing and analysis, light levels monitoring and light sensitivity testing, development of analytical protocols and development of policies for collection preservation. Working experience in hot and humid climate is a plus; •preferably have knowledge of testing and implementation of methods and protocols for air quality and material degradation and of preventive conservation solutions such as glazing, protective coatings, cleaning methods, etc.; •preferably with experience in recommending materials for safety in and around collection items for best preservation as well as interest for contemporary artistic material and knowledge concerning their vulnerability; •be an innovative and enthusiastic team player with strong critical thinking and applied problem solving skills; •be able to work with diverse stakeholders independently and as part of a team in a fast paced and continuously challenging environment; •be proficient in MS Windows and/or Apple OS platform; and •have strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in English and Chinese, preferably in Mandarin. For interested parties, please submit your application along with your CV on or before 19 August 2018 via online application or by mail quoting the reference number, name of the position, expected salary and your availability to: Ms. Kiffany Lee West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Units 608-613, Level 6, Core C, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong Data collected will only be used for job application processing. Applicants not being invited for interview within 4 weeks from 19 August 2018 may assume their applications unsuccessful. All related information will be kept up to 24 months and all personal data will be destroyed afterwards. 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