CURATOR 2

Essential Qualifications

• Two or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties and an applicable Bachelor’s degree or above.

Job Duties

• Implement collection management policies and procedures.
  • Assess and recommend acquisitions and conduct accessioning, cataloging, and inventory.
  • Maintain and secure collection records, databases, access, and use.
  • Curate collections as per agreements, respond to research inquiries, and manage collection.
  • Conduct research, develop content for programs, and manage educational tours and events.
  • Coordinate the use of collections in exhibits, programs, and publications.
  • Interpret results of completed surveys, perform field evaluations and site excavations, catalog and plot recovered artifacts.
  • Utilize acquired information for report preparation, scientific research, educational purposes, and determine impact to cultural resources.
  • Conduct field surveys of archaeological, historical, and pre-historical sites, and documents.
  • Provide training, direction, and interpretation of policies and procedures.
  • Collect, register, arrange, research, document, and catalog materials for an assigned collection.
  • Provide access, security, and conservation for the assigned collection.
  • Carry out interpretations of collections.
  • Develop, execute, and evaluate educational programs and research.
  • Conduct field activities.
  • Investigate and pursue potential acquisitions.
  • Prepare publications on program areas and collections.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge Of Federal, State, and agency requirements for the curation and preservation of collections;
  • Conservation principles and practices;
  • Gifting and exhibition policies;
  • Antiquities law;
  • Research and appraisal sources;
  • Exhibit design and application;
  • Preservation and conservation technology;
  • Cultural resource management processes;
  • Museum techniques and procedures in registration and accessioning artifacts;
  • Museum methods of artifact identification, acceptance, and classification;
  • Education program development and management;
  • Registration theory and accession procedures;
  • Functions and operations of museums, archives, historical societies, and libraries;
  • Preservation and conservation theory, practices and techniques to properly care for and protect collections;
  • Research methods and principles;
  • History of Great Basin Nevada and The West.
• Ability To Compose text and articles for publication;
  • Navigate problems relating to the development, organization, and care of collections;
  • Collaborate in the development and deployment of museum exhibits;
  • Assist in conducting research;
  • Recognize and assess the condition and value of collections and artifacts;
  • Identify problems and determine appropriate solutions;
  • Restore artifacts.

Recruiter Contact Information

Sonja Grass - SonjaGrass@admin.nv.gov