U.S. Department of Defense
Museum Specialist (General)
Pay$61111.00 - $80624.00 / year
LocationFort Eustis/Virginia
Employment typeFull-Time
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Job Description
- Req#: 830347600
- Implements guided museum tours for a wide variety of audiences, including: visiting dignitaries, military officers and enlisted personnel, Department of the Army civilians, military family members, the general public and schools.
- Assists with the conservation of the museum artifact collection in accordance with standard museum conservation practices.
- Assists in developing annual budget requirements and expenditures.
- Maintains inventory, property storage, and retrieval of artifacts as required.
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position has an irregular tour of duty and may require shift work and/or work on rotating shifts to provide coverage on evenings, weekends, holidays, and in other situations.
- This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 25% of the time.
- This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
- This position has a requirement to lift up to 25lbs without assistance and up to 70 lbs. with assistance and climb ladders often over a height of six feet to clean and inspect large museum artifacts using proper health and safety gear.
- This position is subject to the provisions of the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban commonly referred to as the Lautenberg Amendment.
- The Lautenberg act bans individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence and certain others from possession or access to firearms or ammunition.
- Collection Resources Management
- History and Archaeology
- Researching
About the Position: About the Position: Serves under the Supervisory Museum Curator, collaborates with the museum staff on all matters pertaining to the museum story line and mission statement, exhibit label content, artifact availability and overall management of the collection program.
The hiring officials are filling position(s) located at Fort Eustis, VA and Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Selectee's salary will be based on duty station assigned.Duties
Requirements
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1.) Assisting in the management of collection programs reviewing all matters pertaining to the museum story line and/or mission statement 2.) Assisting in the development of educational and training programs in accordance with museum's customer requirements; 3.) Maintaining inventories of museum's equipment. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
OR
Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as American and US Military History.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
About the company
The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".