About This Role
This role involves the independent identification, classification, and cataloging of museum objects. It suits a meticulous individual responsible for the routine care, preservation, and monitoring of museum collections and exhibit areas.
Responsibilities
- Independently identify, sort, classify, and catalog NPS Standards museum objects representing a wide variety of object types and materials
- Perform routine cleaning, stabilization, or preservation of museum artifacts whose treatments do not require a high degree of specialization
- Make recommendations to the immediate supervisor for the care of museum collections
- Implement housekeeping schedules and oversee the housekeeping work of other museum or maintenance staff
- Provide daily and cyclical cleaning and monitoring of artifacts in accordance with standard operating procedures
- Prepare all incoming materials for inclusion into the museum collections
- Perform research to accurately describe and identify objects for inclusion into the museum collection
- Prepare objects for storage and exhibit
- Catalog museum objects and enter cataloging data into the designated electronic catalog program (e.g., ICMS+)
- Implement housekeeping schedules and clean exhibit areas on a routine basis
- Monitor the environment of the collection storage and exhibit areas by keeping records on temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation
- Maintain museum records
Requirements
- One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level Federal service, related to the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. Examples include collections management, registration, cataloging, research, preservation, restoration, or conservation of collections of museum material, or other similar experience related to historical/cultural resource management activities
- OR one full academic year of related graduate education in history, museum studies, archeology, anthropology, or similar area of cultural resource management
- OR eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement Provision based on class standing, grade-point average, or honor society membership. S.A.A. is based on:
- Class standing: Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, based on completed courses
- Grade-point average: Applicants must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 as recorded on their official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum OR 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 based on average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum
