Chief of Collections Care

The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada is looking for a Chief of Collections Care.

Permanent, Full-time
Collection and Research

Start Date: ASAP
Hours of Work: 35 hours per week
Employee Group: Exempt
Salary: $190,000 – $224, 227 per annum
Probationary Period:  6 months

Are you passionate about culture, the arts, natural history, and science? Are you keen on how these elements aesthetically come together to tell the many stories of humanity? Then consider a career at ROM.

The Chief of Collections Care (CCC) oversees the direct management of the Royal Ontario Museum’s permanent collections, including 13 million objects and specimens in 27 different disciplines spanning the arts and sciences. A member of the senior management team and key partner in institutional long-range planning, the CCC reports to the Deputy Director, Collections & Research and Chief Innovation Officer (DD C&R), and manages, coaches, and mentors registration, conservation, and collections management staff, and develops short- and long-term strategies to advance the preservation, care, and quality of the collections. Within the Division of Collections and Research the CCC partners with the Co-Chief Curators to establish and update best practices in care and research and to promote a strong culture of collections stewardship. The Chief of Collections Care, in partnership with the DD C&R, leads the vision, planning, staffing and strategy for developing the future of ROMs multiple onsite and offsite storage facilities. The CCC is a strategic leader with experience in transformational and organizational culture change.