Essential duties:
In partnership with the President and Director, the Board, the Curatorial Department, and other MIM departments, the Curator will help build, interpret, and care for the MIM collection of approximately 3,000 instruments.

Specific duties will include:

• Helping to build the collection by working with the MIM team to identify, evaluate, document, and acquire appropriate instruments for exhibit, educational, or reference purposes.
• Developing content for exhibits including instruments, video, audio, and contextual elements.
• Preparing and presenting acquisitions recommendations to the Acquisitions Committee.
• Identifying, evaluating and acquiring instruments in own area of expertise.
• Identifying potential sources for long-term loans and donations of musical instruments and working with MIM staff and Board to secure these loans and gifts.
• Building relationships with scholars, collectors, other museum curators and professional societies.
• Contributing information for label copy and writing articles and catalogs relating to the collection.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must bring energy, vision, enthusiasm, and resourcefulness to this important position. An ability to act quickly and with good judgment is paramount. Exceptional organizational, negotiation, problem-solving, and communication skills are required.
Essential qualifications include:

• Advanced degree in ethnomusicology with a focus on Africa and/or Latin America.
• Extensive knowledge of and interest in musical instruments.
• Ability to problem-solve, work both independently and collaborative way, and excel in a high performance team culture.
• Demonstrated success in building relationships with diverse people, such as museum collectors, other museum curators, and musicians.
• Some museum and collection management experience is desirable.

Other:

• This position reports to the Head of the Curatorial Department.
• As the museum evolves, some of the duties of this position may change.
• This position is located in Phoenix, AZ.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and will be accepted until the position is filled. More information regarding MIM is available on the website at www.themim.org.

Qualified candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume or CV, and three professional references to:

Human Resources
Curator Search
Musical Instrument Museum
8550 S. Priest Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85284

Or Via E-mail to HR@themim.org