Job Posting: Museum Specialist, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Job Posting: Museum Specialist, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Please find the USAJobs.gov posting for a Museum Specialist at the links below. Application window opens August 9 and closes August 22, 2023 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

This listing is open to the public at the following job listing: [741998000]

The position is open to other classes of applicants at this listing [23R-SB-309067-MPA-NASM].

Front of the Smithsonian NASM Udvar-Hazy Center. Photo By Dane Penland.

This full-time, permanent, federal position has a salary range of $53,105 – $102,166 per year at the GS-07 to GS-11 level

Summary:

The Collections Processing Unit located on the Paul E. Garber Facility (PEGF) in Suitland, MD, National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall (NMB), and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (UHC) in Chantilly, VA, is part of the NASM Collections Management Department, protecting the National Collections of Aeronautics and Space Artifacts in perpetuity and guaranteeing intellectual as well as physical control over those collections. 

More than one selection may be made from this announcement.

Duty Location:

Suitland, MD

Duties:

The Museum Specialist is responsible for determining the storage of artifacts by analyzing storage requirements. In this position, you will:

  • Serve as project manager/coordinator for assignments.
  • Advise on storage plans and approaches. 
  • Design innovative storage systems.
  • Disassemble, assemble, load, unload, secure, crate, or cradle aforementioned types of artifacts.
  • Construct cradles, dollies, and other supports necessary to ensure safe handling, movement, and storage of the artifacts.
  • Direct or coordinate museum technicians and specialists, interns, visitors, researchers and contractors in the collections areas and their work with the collection, providing them with assistance and maintaining the security for the collection at all times.

Contact:

POC
Address

Sean Brooks

SMITHSONIAN
Office of Human Resources
POB 37012, 600 Maryland Avenue, MRC 517
Suite 5060
Washington, District of Columbia 20013-7012
United States