Museum Specialist (History).

About the role

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a federally chartered, nonpartisan institution dedicated to serving as America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and an educational institution focused on the history and lessons of the Holocaust.

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance to conservators by assessing conditions and developing preservation plans for collection items, including executing conservation treatments in conjunction with photographic and written documentation.
• Designs and fabricates custom enclosures in collaboration with the appropriate conservator for collection materials; makes recommendations for appropriate housing materials and techniques.
• Participates in the installation, de-installation, maintenance, and preservation of artifacts for exhibition.
• Carries out Exhibition Collections Care [ECC] according to the procedures developed by conservators to protect and care for artifacts on display.
• Ensures artifacts are mounted, supported, and handled according to Museum standards, and ensures that the necessary tools and equipment are available and ready when needed for major EEC treatment and care projects.
• Carry out photographic documentation and other imaging of artifacts identified for conservation treatment, in coordination with conservators.
• Participates in environmental monitoring program (monitoring temperature, relative humidity, and light) in areas containing collection materials including placement and collection of remote environmental data loggers and input of data into a computerized monitoring program.
• Participates in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) activities including accompanying the IPM contractor to monitor pest incursions in collection areas.
• Responds to reports of the presence of pests or bugs, and reports findings.

Requirements

• Conditions of employment: On-line resumes must be submitted by 11:59pm EST of the closing date. You must be a suitable for Federal employment. You must be a U.S. citizen. You must be registered for Selective Service if applicable (www.sss.gov).
• Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date. A one year probationary period may be required.
• This agency provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirement: Specialized Experience - You qualify for the GS-9 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-7 (or equivalent) grade level in the federal government. Specialized Experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. The specialized experience for this position is assessing the condition, performing minor conservation treatment, and completing preventive care for items in the Museum’s collection; conducting photographic documentation and technical imaging artifacts; maintaining hardcopy and electronic conservation records for collection items in the Museum; assisting with the creation and implementation of documents to enforce the Museum’s procedures and practices.
• OR Education: 2 full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education or master's or equivalent graduate degree related to the position OR Combination of education and experience as listed above.
• Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures, any individual who is currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying).
• Additional information: A Complete Application Consists Of The Following Resume showing relevant experience. Your resume must clearly demonstrate, in two pages or less, how your skills and experiences align with the "Qualifications" section and support your questionnaire responses.