Role purpose: The conservator will be expected to carry out conservation treatments on the museum’s photography collections, provide detail records of the works carried out, care for relevant collections and ensure their physical safety- stability.
Duties & Responsibilities:
o Performs a broad range of conservation treatments on photography, ensuring their physical safety and stability, while retaining historical and artistic context.
o Provides detailed records of the works carried out, examines, analyses, research, notates, photographs, and explains all findings in reports.
o Asses and condition check the photography collection.
o Provides knowledgeable expertise on the caring, handling, and addressing condition issues of photography for acquisition, loan, exhibit, transport, and storage. Performs condition assessments of individual collections, surveys groups of collections and requests for loan.
o Ensures good knowledge of monitoring and controlling the environment in which collections are stored or displayed to prevent deterioration and applies preventive conservation principles and care of collections with interest on photography.
o Provide guidance and consultation to the exhibition team, to recommend specific display parameters for materials and mounts requirements.
o Ensures adherence to policies and procedures, engages in review, interpretation, and development of conservation-related policies, methods, procedures, and services; works with others to update plans and implement recommendations for preservation strategies.
o Assists with day to day running of the Conservation laboratory.
o Works collaboratively and liaises with the staff across Lusail Museum to meet overall goal.
o Communicates the conservation activities with his/ her colleagues and interest groups and publishes findings exploring photography methods and degradation processes.
o Advocates for conservation practices and policies across Qatar Museums.
o Participates in packing and transport of collection items, and accompanying objects in transit to other locations, if required.
o Takes supervisory roles occasionally (i.e., interns, volunteers, and newer staff members)
o Must have a Master’s degree in Conservation with specific focus on photography.
o Minimum of 6 years work experience.
o Demonstrated exceptional manual skills and ability to perform a broad range of complex conservation treatments on photography.
o Demonstrated competency with advanced technical equipment related to conservation documentation.
o Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of history, manufacture, technology, and deterioration of photography.
o Demonstrated knowledge of chemistry and material science research related to conservation.
o Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
o Strong collaborative and organizational skills.
o Excellent communication skills in English.
Desirable
o Knowledge in Orientalist Art and artists.
o Experience in conservation treatments of photography from the 19th, and early 20th century.