Museum Technician (History)

About the role

This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum. The incumbent serves in a training capacity as a Museum Technician while 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 also include exhibit work, public outreach and professional support within and outside the department.

Responsibilities

As a Museum Technician, you will:

• Work as an inventory team leader and ensure 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. Report actual or potential risks to holdings from environmental conditions, pests, leaks, and other threats. Assist local environmental monitoring and perform routine and complex preventive care and minor rehabilitative tasks.
• Use digital camera(s) and/or scanner(s), create clear, appropriate digital images for a wide variety of artifacts and collection records following standard museum and NARA guidelines.
• 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.
• Duties also include exhibit work, public outreach and professional support within and outside the department.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience

For the GS-5, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-4 grade level. This experience must be related to the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. For this position, specialized experience is defined as experience:

• Following established procedures to ensure objects of historical or cultural significance are protected from environmental hazards, such as extreme temperature/humidity, mold, damaging lighting conditions, or pests.
• Assisting in cataloging or inventorying objects in museum collections.
• OR
• -Following established procedures to ensure objects of historical or cultural significance are protected from environmental hazards, such as extreme temperature/humidity, mold, damaging lighting conditions, or pests.
• Assisting in cataloging or inventorying objects in museum collections.

OR

• EDUCATION: Successful completion of 4 years above high school leading to a bachelor's degree with major study, or 24 semester hours of course work in a related field. Related fields of study include art, history, museum studies, scientific subjects, or other courses related to the position to be filled.
• COMBINATION OF EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: 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

To qualify based on your education, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.

Experience

To qualify based on your work experience, you must meet the following requirements:

• One year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-4 grade level, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Specialized experience is defined as experience:

• Following established procedures to ensure objects of historical or cultural significance are protected from environmental hazards, such as extreme temperature/humidity, mold, damaging lighting conditions, or pests.
• Assisting in cataloging or inventorying objects in museum collections.

OR

• EDUCATION: Successful completion of 4 years above high school leading to a bachelor's degree with major study, or 24 semester hours of course work in a related field. Related fields of study include art, history, museum studies, scientific subjects, or other courses related to the position to be filled.
• COMBINATION OF EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: 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.

Other Qualifications

Additional information To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. We may select from this announcement or any other source to fill one or more vacancies. This announcement may be used to fill like positions in other organizations within the National Archives and Records Administration. This is a bargaining unit position, AFGE Council 260. We offer opportunities for telework per Agency policy. A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.