Job opening: DIRECTOR OF THE EXHIBITS AND VISITOR SERVICES OFFICE
Salary: $163 964 - 191 900 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Apr 30 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The incumbent serves as the Director of the Exhibits and Visitor Services Office with responsibility for the direction and implementation of a nationwide non-partisan program for exhibits and visitor services components of the National Archives.
Duties
As a DIRECTOR OF THE EXHIBITS AND VISITOR SERVICES OFFICE, you will:
Oversee all aspects of the museum at the National Archives operations in Washington, DC, the most visited facility in the NARA system, including the development of non-partisan content for exhibitions and related visitor services programs.
Ensure the continuing intellectual and physical integrity of the exhibits, the general visitor spaces of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC: the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, NARA's permanent galleries, and the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery, as well as the Learning Center.
Manage the exhibit programs in the field offices of the National Archives, most particularly the exhibit galleries of the National Archives in New York and the National Archives in Kansas City.
Oversee the development of contracts for exhibition and publications developments, design and production, including consultant and technical services from concept to installation.
Oversee the development and implementation of the visitor services, volunteer, and internship programs in support of the museum program at the National Archives.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-15, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
Managing a large museum, cultural or historical institution, or Presidential Library facility including exhibit development and visitor services; AND
Developing an exhibits program for an organization; AND
Overseeing a visitor services, volunteer and/or, internship program; AND
Raising funds from private sources or preparing budget requests to support exhibits.
In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable (as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F):
For the GS-15, you must have been at the GS-14level for 52 weeks.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address PUBLIC MUSEUM ENGMNT AND LEG ARCHIVES
700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Suite 104
Washington, DC 20408
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-8990
- Email: [email protected]
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