Job opening: Museum Technician (History)
Salary: $51 300 - 74 110 per year
Published at: Aug 26 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Serves as a Museum Technician in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) performing a variety of technical duties in connection with the management of the museum collection, including inventorying, registration, documentation and digitization of museum objects.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
As a Museum Technician (History), you will:
- Work as an inventory team leader and ensures that inventory information is accurately and correctly recorded in the collections management system.
- Apply agency-wide and site-specific methods and standards for accessioning and cataloging, including numbering, description, object labeling, and other associated tasks for museum holdings.
- Complete artifact housing and storage assignments. Reports actual or potential risks to holdings from environmental conditions, pests, leaks, and other threats.
- Complete assigned tasks related to exhibit research, object selection, and text editing and formatting, as needed.
- Respond (via letter, phone, electronically, or in person) to reference questions from staff, researchers, other institutions and the general public regarding museum objects and exhibits.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-07, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. This experience must be related to the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. Specialized experience for this position includes:
Using collections management tools and/or established SOPs or procedures in a museum setting; AND
Assisting in placing objects of historical or cultural significance into physical and/or virtual museum exhibits; AND
Assisting in cataloging, rehousing and/or preserving objects in museum collections.
OR
EDUCATION: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows:One full academic year of related graduate level education where it is directly related to the work of the position.
OR
COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-06, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. This experience must be related to the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. Specialized experience for this position includes:
Using collections management tools and/or established SOPs or procedures in a museum setting; AND
Assisting in cataloging, rehousing and/or preserving objects in museum collections.
OR
EDUCATION: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: One full academic year of related graduate level education where it is directly related to the work of the position.
OR
COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
Education
There is no education requirement for this position.
Contacts
- Address OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3903
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-8990
- Email: [email protected]
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