NAGPRA Coordinator –
Job Number:
241639
Organization
: Okla Museum of Natural History
Job Location
: United States-Oklahoma-Norman
Schedule
: Full-time
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday
Work Type: Onsite
Salary Range: Targeted salary $60,000 based on experience
Benefits Provided: Yes
Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter
Job Description
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The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNM) NAGPRA Coordinator will oversee compliance, consultations, repatriations, and other activities associated with ensuring the museum’s compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and fulfilling its NAGPRA legal and ethical obligations. The position will play a key role in managing, tracking, and evaluating the progress of core projects and initiatives relating to NAGPRA compliance, specifically related to the archaeology and ethnology collections, assisting with inventories and summaries, publication of notices, facilitating NAGPRA communications, including tribal consultation and physical repatriations of Native American ancestors and cultural items, and conducting provenance research. This staff member will collaborate with appropriate museum curators and collection managers and work closely with the University of Oklahoma’s NAGPRA Oversight Committee. This full-time, 12-month, annually renewable professional staff position will supervise temporary full- and part-time staff, students, and volunteers and report to the Director.
Essential Duties:
- Serves as the SNM’s primary point of contact for all NAGPRA-related inquiries seeking information about the SNM collections with Native American ancestral remains and NAGPRA-eligible cultural objects, and serves as the liaison between the SNM, Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, and the National NAGPRA program.
- Develops the museum’s goals and objectives for NAGPRA compliance with timelines and benchmarks.
- Responsible for management and day-to-day oversight of the NAGPRA program at the museum, including managing and completing inventories and summaries, conducting provenance research, and organizing and facilitating physical repatriations.
- Supervises NAGPRA staff, including hiring, training, and carrying out performance evaluations. In collaboration with curators and collections managers, establishes work priorities and supports NAGPRA staff in daily tasks.
- Interfaces and communicates with the SNM Director and the OU NAPGRA Oversight Committee, providing updates and routine reports on progress, successes, and barriers to support program goals and compliance.
- Assesses program effectiveness and identifies and addresses areas in need of improvement.
- Manages program documentation and records, data collection, correspondence, consultations, and reporting (oral and written), including the drafting and submission of NAGPRA documents (summaries, inventories, notices, and communications); develops SNM NAGPRA-related procedural manuals, policies, procedures, and curation plans.
- Develops proposals and funding requests to support NAGPRA activities and administers grants and contracts.
- Interfaces with university departments, funding sources, outside organizations and state/government agencies.
- Plans and conducts tribal consultations, responds to information requests and maintains communication with Tribal representatives; schedules site visits and facilitates access to collections by stakeholders.
- Manages the program budget and allocates and coordinates resources to attain objectives.
