The purpose of this position is to provide direction over extensive museum collections and carry out responsibilities in the four museum functions of collections, exhibits, research, and education. Professional fields of studies and expertise must be pertinent to the park's resources and themes.

Duties

Incumbent handles, cleans, stores and labels museum objects in the permanent collection. Maintains museum records including accession, catalog, and loan records. Hires and supervises seasonals, interns and volunteers to complete similar work. Incumbent conducts the annual inventory of museum collections and drafts as required the annual Collections Management Report. Handles office records and correspondence and managing computer equipment, including hardware, software and databases. Also inventories and orders supplies, locates sources for supplies that meet museum quality standards and checks deliveries to ensure that supplies do meet standards. Processes incoming and outgoing loans in accordance with NPS standards for insurance, security and environment purposes. Monitors the environment of the collections storage and exhibit areas by keeping records of temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation. Compiles climate data into summaries, charts and reports. Maintains the condition of the storage room monitoring equipment. Reports on the physical condition of storage and exhibit areas and keeps track of museum supplies and equipment needed for the operation environmental monitoring equipment and the care of the museum collection. Assists with the design, installation, repair and rehabilitation of exhibits. Reports object deterioration, damage, movement, or theft to the supervisor. Cleans and monitors public areas, exhibition spaces, and artifact storage areas. Serves as the team leader on curatorial projects such as the elimination of cataloging backlogs; organization of photograph and archival collections; production of finding aids and location guide; photo documentation of collections; and the reorganization of storage areas. Applies for funding and manages budgets for various museum projects. Instructs others in appropriate techniques and procedures. Gives specialized tours or talks dealing with museum collections, museum storage and exhibits.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-04/15/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess the Basic Individual Occupational Requirement and at least one or all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: BASIC INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: Degree: A full four (4) year course of study resulting in a bachelor's or higher degree in museum work/studies, or in an applicable subject matter field, such as archaeology, anthropology, history, or similar area of cultural resources management. - OR - Four years of experience that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study as shown above. - OR - Combination of education and experience, with courses equivalent to a major, plus appropriate experience. The quality of the combination of education and experience is sufficient to demonstrate that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field. (Course work should have included 24 semester hours related to courses equivalent to a major, in museum studies, archaeology, anthropology, history, or similar area of cultural resources management, and involved analysis, writing, critical thinking, research, etc. These courses would have provided an applicant with skills and abilities sufficient to perform progressively more responsible work in the occupation). Creditable experience should have demonstrated similarly appropriate skills or abilities needed to perform the work of the occupation. - AND - MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience includes the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. Examples of qualifying specialized experience involving museum program management and project management of a more complex nature, working independently. Experience in long term planning and management of museum collections, archeological collections, at a park, regional repository, or similar (e.g., museum, museum facility); (ii) Museum database management including ICMS/Re: Discovery or similar (e.g., Past Perfect, Arctos, etc.). This experience must demonstrate a broad knowledge of and experience with applying the theories, principles, practices, and techniques of museum collection management. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least three (3) full academic years (54 semester/81 quarter hours) of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree, or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in education or another field of study directly related to the work of this position such as museum studies, archaeology, anthropology, history, or similar area of cultural resources management. (You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts indicating degree earned and credit hours to qualify based on education). You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. EXAMPLE: 6 months of specialized experience (50% of experience required) plus completion of twenty-seven (27) semester hours of graduate education (50% of education requirement), for a total 100% or more. You must include transcripts. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Badlands National Park 25216 Ben Reifel Road Interior, SD 57750 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Email: [email protected]