New Position at the Art Institute of Chicago: Director of Applications Services, Collections

DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION SERVICES, COLLECTIONS
Regular, Full-Time Position

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The Art Institute of Chicago has an exciting new director-level opportunity to lead the technical development of our talented Collections development team. We seek a leader to help us build ambitious plans for storing, syndicating, and publishing collections information with related interpretive and technical media.

About the Job
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO seeks a leader that will direct the implementation, application development, integration, and on-going maintenance and support of systems supporting the Museum’s collection and exhibition programs. This individual will provide technical expertise, visionary and architectural oversight, and software programming support for applications utilizing various technologies such as 4D, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, Java, etc. The Director will design, develop and manage integration architecture for sustainable dissemination of collection and exhibition assets and information. Specify technical requirements and guidelines for projects utilizing external programming staff. Will manage system requests for application enhancements and insures that proper resources are allocated and prioritized. Will also ensure a sound technical infrastructure is maintained on all servers supporting collections and exhibitions. Work closely with the department of Digital Information and Access on project development, scope and user support needs.

This position supervises 3 Senior System Analysts and 1 2-year special projects position.

Requirements
A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE a BA; Master’s Degree in a related field preferred. Additionally, the candidate will have worked within an environment with complex integrated systems dealing with the storage, publishing and syndication of information, metadata, as well as digital image and media assets. Having experience with museum collection management systems is highly desirable. The candidate should have demonstrated leadership and collaboration. Preferably, the candidate has previously managed professional technical staff.

The Art Institute of Chicago is an equal opportunity, equal access employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.