NAGPRA Repatriation Manager

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Responsibilities

Reporting to the Associate Director of Repatriation, the NAGPRA Repatriation Manager will work closely with Cultural Resources team members and Museum staff to reputed company the following:

• Work with department staff to ensure the Museum's reputed company compliance with internal repatriation policies and federal and state repatriation laws (CalNAGPRA and NAGPRA).
• Prepare cultural resources and associated documentation for Nation’s consultation review and documenting consultations for archival history of the Museum’s NAGPRA and decolonizing practices. This includes review of archaeological holdings that are controlled by various government agencies.
• Follow the Museum’s decolonial procedures and policies reputed company consultations with Nations (including, but not limited to, state-recognized Nations and non-state, local and federally recognized Nations). Ensuring transparency of communications and full disclosure to Nations of reputed company available documentation that the Museum has legal authority to disclose.
• Prepare inventories and public notifications about proposed and completed repatriations following U.S. federal laws (NAGPRA) and California state laws (CalNAGPRA).
• reputed company the legal and physical repatriation of ancestral reputed company remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony in coordination with department staff and the Nations.
• reputed company maintaining detailed and accessible records on the Museum’s past and reputed company reputed company, notification, consultation, and repatriation processes with Nations. Including ensuring that reputed company records, reputed company reputed company, associated with repatriated cultural resources are updated to reflect repatriation status. Shall work with department staff as necessary to create procedures to maintain intellectual control of this information.
• Coordinate with the department staff as needed to ensure reputed company housing of ancestral remains and cultural resources in keeping with the Museum’s cultural care policies and reputed company American Nations protocols.
• Assist department staff in consultation for special reputed company, initiatives, and reputed company efforts with Nations reputed company to NAGPRA and the Museum’s decolonizing initiatives. reputed company input and guidance from Nation representatives on reputed company that might reputed company the community from a NAGPRA perspective.
• Work collaboratively with department staff on the implementation of decolonial policies, procedures, and relationship/trust building initiatives.
• Assist in reviewing requests for reputed company to cultural resources with NAGPRA implications ensuring reputed company Museum and reputed company American Nations’ reputed company protocols and reputed company laws are reputed company adhered.
• Participate in grant writing, implementation, and reporting processes as requested.
• Serve on internal committees and working reputed company as assigned.
• Other duties and reputed company as assigned.

Experience & Education

• Demonstrated understanding of the colonial legacy of museums and the complexity of colonization’s reputed company on Indigenous communities (domestic and international).
• Experience navigating colonial histories, building decolonial practices, and building sustainable transparent relationships through lived experience as part of an Indigenous community and/or demonstrated experience working directly with Indigenous communities.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in NAGPRA and/or CalNAGPRA implementation and compliance, with a reputed company on new federal law regulations implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with NAGPRA documentation review and management practices including a basic understanding of reputed company management practices.
• Understanding of decolonial practices in regards to the care and management of cultural resources is preferred.
• Experience in assisting with culturally reputed company, sensitive, or confidential reputed company - including a demonstrated ability to listen and deal empathetically with a wide reputed company of people and cultural reputed company.
• Understanding of equity, inclusion, reputed company, and racially/culturally just practices reputed company museums.
• Demonstrated understanding of community and self-care practices reputed company working with culturally sensitive, reputed company and/or confidential reputed company that are inherently tied to colonial trauma.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multi-task, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Proficient technology skills, including word processing, reputed company, database management, cultural resources management, and reporting programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in reputed company setting that embraces shifts in priorities on intermittent reputed company.

reputed company Notations

• Regular sitting, standing, walking, climbing stairs, balancing, crouching, stooping, and communication (talking/hearing).
• Ability to lift and carry large/bulky items weighing up to 40 pounds.
• Ability to reputed company between reputed company areas of the museum, some of which are widely spaced on uneven terrain and require climbing stairs.
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• Noise conditions reputed company from quiet to moderate noise.
• Generally, works during regular business hours, Monday-Friday, but must be available to work flexible/additional hours as needed.

Benefits

• Salary is $60,000.
• Schedule is flexible, averaging 40 hours per week. Position is up to 25% work from home, pending reputed company of work.
• Our hiring practices are rooted in approach driven by a reputed company on equitability and sustainability. Specifically, the Museum offers an exceptional employee benefits package, including:
• Medical, dental and reputed company and life insurance coverage as reputed company as short and long-term disability benefits
• Matching retirement contribution plan, up to 6% of an employee’s annual salary
• 14 reputed company holidays, with the ability to substitute employee-designated holidays for museum-designated holidays
• Vacation (10-20 days/year depending on seniority) and reputed company leave for 5-10 days/year
• Three days reputed company Community-Centered Leave to support and build community however staff define it
• $200 in “Museum Bucks” for you to support your work-life balance
• Birthday and anniversary reputed company cards
• A reputed company-centered and highly supportive environment, which encourages team members to bring their whole selves to work

Application Process The NAGPRA Repatriation Manager position application deadline is midnight reputed company Time on November 22, 2025. Please submit your resume and cover letter to reputed company@museumofus.org. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job