Seasonal Museum Technician (Geology)

Full Job Description

These positions may be filled for a seasonal period, up to 1039 hours, but can vary due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding.

Anticipated Entry on Duty: April-July 2026 For more park(s) information, please visit find a park.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-04/10/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience.

To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time).

If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.

To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

This specialized experience demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Museum Technician.

Examples of qualifying specialized experience include collections management, registration, cataloging, research, preservation, restoration, or conservation of collections of museum material, or other experience related to the position to be filled.

GS-05 level experience may be routine or supportive work experience related to the operation or management of a museum or similar collection of valuable objects. You must include hours per week worked.

-OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least one year (18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours) of related graduate level education.

Related fields of study include art, history, museum studies, scientific subjects, or other courses related to the position to be filled.

You must include transcripts.-OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above.

To combine education and experience, first determine the percentage of completed education under the one year required. Then take the number of months of full time experience and divide by 12 months.

Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts.

Volunteer Experience: 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).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior­ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection.

Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.

Major Duties:

The purpose of the position is to perform a full range of complex curatorial support work in a museum.

Includes work with records, specimens, and organic and inorganic materials which treat of the history of the earth and its life as recorded in rocks, etc.

and with the life of past geologic periods, both vertebrate and invertebrate, as preserved in fossil forms.

Identifies, independently sorts, and classifies objects that are similar to previously identified objects. Catalogs museum objects and enters cataloging data into the designated NPS catalog program.

Handles, cleans, stores, and labels objects in the permanent collection.

Performs routine cleaning, stabilization, or preservation of artifacts whose treatment does not require a high degree of specialization. Makes recommendations for the care of museum collections.