Job Listing
Museum Technician (General)
National Park Service · Posted 1 days ago
Hybrid Charles Town, WV $58K – $75K Apply by Sep 21, 2026 Museum Specialist And Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
Apply for this job → About the Role
You will serve as a Museum Technician (General) with the NPS History Collection at Harper's Ferry Center, performing a full range of complex curatorial support work in a museum.
What You'll Do
- →Some of the major duties you will perform 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 archival collections; production of finding aids and location guides; photo documentation of collections; and the reorganization of storage areas.
- →Catalogs museum objects and enters cataloging data into the designated NPS catalog program.
- →Handles, cleans, stores, and labels objects in the permanent collection.
- →Monitors the environment of the collection storage and exhibit areas by keeping records on temperature, relative humidity, and pest infestation.
- →Assists NPS staff, visiting museum professionals, and researchers by locating, retrieving and obtaining information on museum collections.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- ✓Driver's License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓Government Charge Card: You may be required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel authority.
- ✓Probationary Period: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 7dac49eb-3a21-43ed-ba89-7cc4288d5e40
Posted via USAJobs