Job opening: Museum Curator
Salary: $75 640 - 98 330 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Jun 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in Pearl Harbor National Memorial, in the Intergrated Resources Division.
Duties
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
Manage museum collections, archives, and libraries within a park.
Manage museum project contracts, loans, and agreements.
Develops guidelines to deal with the more complex or unusual problems, or with novel, underdeveloped or controversial aspects of museum collections and their management.
Develops strategic plans, work plans and schedules, project statements, deacession plans, scopes of work, cost estimates and proposals to justify funding requests and accomplish goals.
Provide technical support for museum program and mentors, volunteers and technician staff members.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/18/2024-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 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying 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. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying 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.
BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR MUSEUM CURATOR GS-1015-11 SERIES:
1. Degree: museum work; or in an applicable subject-matter field. -OR-
2. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major, as shown in (1) above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The quality of the combination demonstrates that I possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four-year course of study with a major as described above. (You must provide transcripts in your application). -OR.
3. Experience at least 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 in (1) above-
AND-
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GS-11:You must possess at least one of the requirements below to qualify for this grade:
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Working independently, plan and manage complex museum and archives projects for the museum programs, including project planning, budget tracking, and personnel management. Developing baseline documents including Collection Management Plans, Collection Storage Plan, Archival Surveys, Scope of Collection Statements, and Museum Emergency Plans, writing project funding statement (Grants), Long-term planning and management of museum collections at a park, regional repository, or similar museum facility, ensuring standard practices, methods, and techniques to preserve and/or conserve collections of museum material are implemented and followed. This experience must demonstrate a broad knowledge of and experience with applying professional theories, principles, practices, and techniques of museum collection management and, overseeing the work of others which includes assigning and reviewing work. You must include hours per week worked. Professional fields of studies and expertise must be pertinent to the park's resources and themes. tracking, and personnel management; Developing baseline documents including Collection Management Plans, Collection Storage Plans, Archival Surveys, Scope of Collection Statements, and Museum Emergency Plans; Writing project funding statements (Grants); Long-term planning and management of museum collections at a park, regional repository, or similar museum facility; Ensuring standard practices, methods, and techniques to preserve and/or conserve collections of museum material are implemented and followed. This experience must demonstrate a broad knowledge of and experience with applying professional theories, principles, practices, and techniques of museum collection management and, overseeing the work of others which includes assigning and reviewing work. You must include hours per week worked. Professional fields of studies and expertise must be pertinent to the park's resources and themes
EDUCATION: Successful completion of three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in museum work or applicable subject-matter field. You must include transcripts. -OR-Successful completion of a combination of education and experience may be used to meet total experience requirements. To compute this percentage, first divide the total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide the number of completed higher-level graduate education semester hours of education (that are in excess of 36 semester hours) by 36. Add the two percentages together; the total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. NOTE: Only higher-level graduate education in excess of more than two-years may be used to qualify for this position. You must include a copy of your 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 Pearl Harbor National Memorial
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Honolulu, HI 96818
US
- Name: Beverly Slaybaugh
- Phone: (865) 722-6485
- Email: [email protected]
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