The Opportunity

Lesley University is seeking a Photo and Studio Coordinator to manage the LA+D Photography Labs and Studios, ensuring a safe and high-quality environment for students and faculty. This role involves day-to-day oversight of classrooms, studios, and 100+ senior studio spaces, including hazardous waste management and equipment readiness. Responsibilities include coordinating supply orders, supervising up to fifteen student employees, administering the Model program, and managing equipment lending and databases. The Coordinator will also handle supply negotiations, equipment service, and collaborate on capital purchases and strategic planning, while maintaining safety protocols and MSDS for materials.

Qualities and Capabilities

A successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.F.A. in Photography preferred)

• 3 years’ experience in a visual art environment

• Experience maintaining digital and analog photography labs

• Knowledge of silver recovery and hazardous waste management preferred

• Supervisory experience preferred

Why Lesley

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance. In addition, we offer significant paid time off, a generous retirement plan, and tuition programs that enable employees and their dependents to expand their knowledge and skills.

Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley. In doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference. Given an evolving national context and the rapid change in the demographic profile of our country, the University has made a significant commitment to addressing and enhancing its campus climate and diversity capabilities as an institution.

Expressing Interest

A letter of interest, CV/resume, and a statement addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching, professional activity, and/or service must be included for full consideration.

At Lesley University we strive for a supportive and equitable environment where people -- regardless of race, physical ability, age, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other protected personal identities -- can participate equally and fully as their true selves in all aspects of university life. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fabric of our institution.

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