Archives Technician.

Duties

• Assist with the arrangement, description, preservation, cataloging and access to NMAI's archival collections.
• Track, rehouse and store archival collections; monitor storage conditions; conduct inventories, surveys, and reorganize collections materials.
• Apply basic preservation methods to archival materials, such as removing damaging residues, rehousing documents, and maintaining a list of fragile materials requiring preservation treatment and digitization.
• Create well-written and concise finding aids and collection-level records in Archivists’ Toolkit system according to archival descriptive standards like DACS.
• Prepare small purchase orders for supplies and services from outside vendors.
• Support administrative tasks, including arranging travel for staff and contracted consultants, making hotel reservations, and preparing travel authorizations and vouchers.
• Provide reference and research services to the public, Native American communities, researchers, and Smithsonian staff, both onsite and remotely.
• Aid on-site researchers in the Archive Center reading room by identifying appropriate collections, pulling items, assisting in their use, and refiling them.
• Answer staff and public inquiries by researching archival holdings and responding in a detailed manner via email, phone, or letter.

Requirements

• Pass Pre-employment Background Investigation.
• Maintain a Bank Account for Direct Deposit/Electronic Transfer.
• For males born after 12/31/59, register with Selective Service.