Committee Vacancy 2023 - MEG Chair.

Museum Ethnographers Group are a UK-based, but international collective, whose members include:

Museum professionals, academics, researchers & students, artists, activists & enthusiasts

Originally established in 1975, MEG has a long history of bringing individuals, institutions and museum collections together to build knowledge and understanding.

MEG believes that our museums have an important role to play in building understanding, foregrounding respect, and caring for each other. However, this is predicated on institutional and practical changes that we all have a responsibility to work towards. We cannot do this work alone and so we use our platform to support each other, share best practice, and collectively work towards a better future.

MEG is an active interface between museum professionals and university-based researchers and is recognised in the UK museums sector as a key subject-specialist network.

MEG is a volunteer run organisation and we are currently looking for Chair to join our Committee from April 2023, with opportunities for shadowing from September. The Committee currently consists of:

-          Chair

-          Secretary

-          Treasurer

-          Individual Membership Officer

-          Journal Membership Officer

-          Digital/Web co-ordinator

-          Events Officer

As Chair, you will take a leadership role in the administration of MEG’s committee. This includes building a new future for MEG and the sector as a whole.

Main responsibilities include:

·       Work with other committee members to develop the scope and focus of MEG

·       Chair Quarterly committee meetings and the annual AGM

·       Be the primary contact and help shape the annual conference

·       Develop partnerships with research and practice based projects and finding iniatives

·       To provid quarterly reports

·       To play a key role in delivering MEG’s digital development project.

 

The role would suit someone who:

-          Would like to develop their leadership experience.

-          Has an established professional career within the museums sector, and experience working with/understands the issues facing cultural collections.

-          Enjoys thinking through and holding conversations about the questions facing the sector, and is passionate about driving action and change.

-          Values practice-based knowledge and skills sharing.

We welcome early expressions of interest from across the membership who can commit for a minimum of 3 years, and will ask for formal applications to be circulated prior to next years AGM taking place in April 2023.

Deadline for applications is February 2023, but we are reaching out now to ensure there is time to discuss the role and reach as many people as possible.

To apply, or ask any questions, please contact the current chair, Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, at cchair@museumethnographersgroup.org.uk