Please find the USAJobs.gov posting for a Conservator (Paper) at the links below. Application window opens October 23 and closes November 03, 2023 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

Job open to the public at the following listing: [24R-YH-309806-DEU-NMAAHC]

This full-time, permanent, federal position has a salary range of $94,199 – $122,459 per year at the GS-12 level. 

Duty Station:

Landover, MD

Summary:

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo.  This position is in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a national museum for the study and exhibition of African American history and culture. 

Duties:

The Paper Conservator provides a wide variety of conservation, preservation and restoration services including for paper and parchment-based cultural heritage materials with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) collection.

In this position, you will:

• Provide knowledgeable expertise on the care, handling, and condition issues of paper-based collections for accessions, loans, exhibit, transport and storage.  Perform condition assessments of individual collections, surveys groups of collections including archives, potential acquisitions and loan requests.
• Provide guidance and consultation to the exhibition, design and fabrication teams to recommend specific climate parameters for materials due to age, media, substrate materials and mounts.  Attend auctions and visit donors and collectors.  Provide guidance to conservation staff and interns.
• Design, propose, complete and document complex, advanced conservation treatments and scientifically based research. Conduct technical material science research for all paper and parchment materials within the museum’s collections.
• Perform condition assessments of individual collections, surveys groups of collections and requests for loan, including archives as well as those being consideration for acquisition.  Examine, analyze, report, notate, photograph and explain all findings in reports.  Publish findings and explore paper-based processes and artist methods.