Collections Manager

## Collections Manager Apply:
Seattle, WA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
October 14, 2026 (13 days left to apply):
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- ** Job Description
**** The Burke Museum*
* ** has an outstanding opportunity for a Collections Manager to join their team.
** The Collections Manager in Heritage:
Arts & Cultures (HAC) is a member of a team that cares for collections by centering ethics and through building and maintaining relationships with descendant communities.  
** About this opportunity:
** The day to-day work of the Collections Manager involves managing and supervising the long-term care and preservation of the collections, including facilitating access for community, students, researchers and staff, and overseeing the documentation and care of collections and archives.

Collections care includes a range of activities, such as overseeing access and research, maintaining records, inventory, communicating with donors, repatriation, arranging conservation, coordinating for exhibits and other public events, supporting storage renovation projects, assisting with efforts to digitize collections and migrate the database.  Under the direction of the Curator for Diasporic Oceania and Asias (DOA), the Collections Manager will foster and maintain ethical relationships between the Burke Museum and Pacific Islander, Asian and Near Eastern communities, and facilitate community access and activation of the collection.

To support this work, the Collections Manager will build upon and create new relationships with students, artists, communities, and local organizations. Student-centered, collections-based research training is central to our work as a public university museum. As a member of the HAC department, the Collections Manager will work as a team with HAC Curators, Collections Managers, the Bill Holm Center, Artist Studio Coordinator, assistants, students and volunteers, and cultivate connections across all Burke departments, as well as between the cultural collections and Oceanic, Asian and Near Eastern collections in other departments at the Burke Museum.

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* Key Responsibilities:

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* ** Collections Management: (30%)*
* • Manage the cultural and archival collections for the Oceanic, Asian and Near Eastern regions, including accessions, cataloging, organization and storage both on and off-site, according to best practices. Along with the curator, set priorities for collection work.
• Track use of the collections.
• Facilitate loans and image requests.
• Coordinate with Registrar and collections staff regarding Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) requests and inventories.
• Work with other members of the division collections staff team to design and implement protocols for curation and equipment use. Manage and maintain equipment and relevanttrainings.
• Respond to public and internal research inquiries on a timely basis.
• Schedule use by researchers, visiting scholars and students; coordinate, host, and oversee visitors to the collection while prioritizing collection safety and well-being.  
** Data Management & Digitization: (20%)*
* • Maintain division records and compile statistics for the cultural collections as needed.
• Responsible for collection data integrity and security in conjunction with IT.
• Coordinate digitization of collections data and its dissemination on the website. Initiate and/or oversee new digitization programs.
• Complete data entry as needed.
• Along with the other HAC Collections Managers standardize Argus data, set priorities for data clean up. Oversee new database structure.
• Provide access to data.  
** Education & Outreach: (10%)*
* • Respond to public inquiries for cultural material identification and care.
• Conduct tours for communities, school groups, university classes,…