Program Manager, S.M. Tracy Herbarium

Program Manager, S.M. Tracy Herbarium# Improving lives through science and technology## Program Manager, S.M. Tracy Herbarium Apply:
College Station, TX:
Full time:
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R-098268
** Job Title
** Program Manager, S.M. Tracy Herbarium
** Agency
* * Texas A&M Agrilife Research
** Department
* * Ecology & Conservation Biology
** Proposed Minimum Salary
** Commensurate
* * Job Location
** College Station, Texas
** Job Type
** Staff
* * Job Description**#
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* Job Summary:

** The Program Manager, S.M. Tracy Herbarium, under the direction of the faculty curator, coordinates day-to-day activities supporting the administration and operation of the S.M. Tracy Herbarium. The position implements established procedures, supervises program support staff and student assistants, coordinates collections and digitization activities, and assists with budgeting, reporting, communications, and program materials.  
** Responsibilities:
**** Collections Management, Digitization, and Data Administration
*** Coordinates day-to-day activities supporting the stewardship, documentation, digitization, and use of the S.M. Tracy Herbarium collections, including accessioning, cataloging, specimen processing, loans, gifts, exchanges, records management, and related permits and agreements.
* Coordinates established workflows for specimen imaging, image processing, transcription, georeferencing, validation, data release, and spectral-data collection.
* Maintains collection records, databases, identifiers, barcodes, metadata, backups, and data-quality procedures; supports publication of collection records through web-based data-sharing platforms.
* Coordinates the use and maintenance of collection and digitization equipment; organizes and analyzes herbarium data; and assists with program materials, operational plans, priorities, and routine reporting.  
** Staff Supervision, Training, and Development
*** Supervises program support staff, student assistants, interns, volunteers, and temporary employees engaged in collections and digitization activities.
* Assists with recruiting, scheduling, training, and evaluating personnel.
* Coordinates routine training, collection-based instruction, professional development, tours, presentations, seminars, workshops, and other educational activities.  
** Collection Use, Communication, and Outreach
*** Coordinates access for visiting researchers, students, faculty, extension personnel, and other collection users and responds to inquiries regarding specimens, collections, data, and Herbarium services.
* Maintains communication with Texas A&M units, external institutions, collection users, and institutional partners.
* Assists with website, social-media, public education, outreach, exhibitions, lectures, and other activities that communicate the value of the Herbarium.  
** Budget, Reporting, and Financial Coordination
*** Assists with budgetary and procurement processes, supplies, equipment,…