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HISTORIC WOMEN-LED ARTS, LEARNING AND SERVICE NONPROFIT The Ebell of Los Angeles is a women-led and women-centered nonprofit housed in an historic campus in the Mid-Wilshire section of Los Angeles, California. It includes numerous performance spaces, gathering spaces, classrooms and the 1,238-seat Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The Ebell works to uplift the Los Angeles community through arts, learning and service. Art, ideas, civic engagement and celebration converge in this beautiful campus. With three levels and 75,000 square feet, the renaissance-inspired complex is a noted architectural treasure and registered National Historic Landmark, and features a grand ballroom, art salon, dining room, gardens and several stages. Throughout year, The Ebell presents a robust season public programs featuring artists, athletes, scholars, scientists, business innovators and civic leaders. Additionally, the nonprofit partners with scores of other community organizations, and member-volunteers work to inspire and empower women, perhaps most notably through more than 100 years of awarding scholarships to students and providing grants to charities that help at-risk women and children in the Los Angeles community. Our motto is, “I will find a way, or make one.” The Ebell is an iconic LA venue available for private Special Events, Weddings, theatrical productions, concerts, red carpet premiers and film productions. Past corporate event partners include: Hulu, NBC, 20th Century Fox, IBM, USC, Harvard University, ERDEM x H&M, Viacom, Grammys, The Humane Society, Los Angeles Times, AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Cedars-Sinai.

Job Summary:

The Ebell of Los Angeles seeks a motivated, collaborative and knowledgeable archivist/collections manager to process and catalog items, materials and artifacts related to the history of The Ebell and of women in Los Angeles. With the goal of promoting collection discovery, access, preservation, and use, the archivist will apply professional standards and best practices to arrange, re-house, and describe mixed-format collections including the archives of members, artists, curators, collectors and supporters. The archivist will participate in activities related to scholarly research, outreach, and collection management related to special collections.

Reporting to Executive Director the archivist will work closely with Ebell Committee members, volunteers and board leaders, as well as colleagues throughout the organization to engage with the archival profession, and may supervise interns, student workers and project staff.

Major Job Responsibilities:

Work under little to no supervision on assigned projects to improve access to archives and other special collections
Survey collections and develop and implement processing plans
Arrange, process, and re-house collection materials
Create and enhance finding aids and bibliographic records based on current standards, best practices, research, and evaluation
Identify conservation concerns and perform basic preservation practices
Maintain knowledge in standards, systems and specialized subjects
Assist in ongoing development, refinement and documentation of processes and procedures
Maintain processing metrics and project documentation
May manage or participate in group processing projects
May train and supervise others and revise the work of others
May answer reference questions
May research, write, present, and publish about collections and work activities
May contribute to outreach activities
Undertake special projects as assigned

Qualifications:

Graduate degree in appropriate discipline preferred
Related professional experience: minimum 2 to 5 years

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated subject knowledge in historical documents and costume collections(?)
Strong writing and communication skills
Ability to work both under little to no supervision and in partnership in team-based environments

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Archivist/Collections Manager (Part time)

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