Deadline: Open Until Filled, posted October 24, 2024
Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Administrative Assistant to be responsible for everyday operations and office management of the Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
The key duties of the position include:
– Handling the administrative work in the Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art.
– Preparation and overseeing financial documents.
– Submitting travel expense reports for reimbursement.
– Assists with putting together annual department budgets and tracking the budget.
– Keeping track of department activities and statistics.
– Writing special and annual reports.
– Assisting with exhibition and program coordination.
– Handling mail distributions and department mailing list.
– Handling graduate assistants’ and postdocs’ appointment processes, travel needs and schedules.
– Handling overall office management.
– Facilitating the Department purchasing in compliance with the University procurement policies and procedures.
The position requires: bachelors’ degree (as a minimum), excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, basic computer skills (office software, Internet), good writing skills, general interest in the Soviet and post-Soviet countries and cultures, previous work experience in a cultural or educational institution. Preferred qualifications: three years of experience in office administration and management, working knowledge of Russian, familiarity with a language from any of the former Soviet Republics.
For more position details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/238464
About us:
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Founded in 1966 as the Rutgers University Art Gallery, the Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, one of the United States’ highest-ranked, most diverse public universities. With a permanent collection of more than 60,000 objects and an active program of changing exhibitions, the Zimmerli plays a dynamic part in the academic and cultural life of Rutgers and central New Jersey. The Zimmerli is free and open to the public, and offers an array of in-person and digital opportunities to engage with art of the past and the present. As part of the beloved community of Rutgers University, the Zimmerli Art Museum is committed to upholding diversity, equity, access, and inclusion as guiding principles for the museum’s operations, exhibitions, collecting, programming, and outreach.
The Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department
Founded in 1995, the Department is a home to Zimmerli’s Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the largest collection of its kind in the world, spanning the late Soviet era from the 1950s to 1991. In addition to Soviet nonconformist art, the art of Russian imperial and early Soviet eras—from the fourteenth to early twentieth century—is represented in the George Riabov Collection of Russian Art. A generous gift by Claude and Nina Gruen extended the Zimmerli’s Russian and Soviet Nonconformist art holdings to the 1990s and 2000s. Extensive archives of documents, correspondence, audio and video interviews with artists, and documentary photographs, as well as a noncirculating library of related books accompany the collection and are continually being updated.