Museum Technician (History)
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This position is located at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, in the Northeast Region, Cultural Resources Division.
Duties
The purpose of the position is to perform a full range of complex curatorial support work in a museum. Work may involve substantial element of the work of the professional field but requires less than full knowledge of the field involved.
Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Serves as team member, and at times a team leader, on curatorial projects such as the elimination of cataloging backlogs; organization of photograph and archival collections; production of finding aids and location guides; photo documentation of collections; and the reorganization of storage areas.
- Recommends appropriate methodology and procedures to accomplish projects.
- Instructs others in appropriate techniques and procedures.
- Monitors day-to-day work on projects.
- Prepares progress reports for the supervisor.
- Identifies, independently sorts, and classifies objects that are similar to previously identified objects.
- Catalogs museum objects and enters cataloging data into the designated National Park Service catalog program.
- Maintains museum records, including accession, catalog, and loan records, in accordance with National Park Service standards.
- Completes the accession of new objects and insures that required paperwork and files are complete.
- Updates standard operating accession procedures as needed and instructs other staff and volunteers in their use.
- Conducts or assists others to conduct the annual inventory of museum collections and contributes as required to the annual Collections Management Report.