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State of Nevada Announces
An Open Competitive Recruitment for:
CURATOR 2 - OVERTON, NEVADA
APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -  $45,810.72 to  $67,713.84  PAY GRADE: 33
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
JOB INFORMATION
Work Type: A Permanent, full time vacancy
Department: Department of Tourism & Cultural Affairs
Division: Museums & History
Location: Las Vegas, Boulder City, Indian Springs, Jean, Henderson
Job Class Code: 07.808
RECRUITMENT INFORMATION
Announcement Number: 35217
Open to all qualified persons.
Posted 09/10/2018
Close Date: 11/20/2018
Recruiter:
   ADRIAN FOSTER
   Phone: (702)486-2911
   Email: adrian@admin.nv.gov
Applications accepted for another Expired
The Position
Curators perform a broad range of professional and technical museum work involving, but not limited to, assessment, evaluation, survey, inventory, preservation, research, education and planning for a specific collection and/or program area within a museum.
Incumbents possess a degree of knowledge and proficiency sufficient to perform advanced-level work and may provide work direction and training to others.
This professional position works within in the Department of Tourism & Cultural Affairs, Division of Museums & History at the Lost City Museum in Overton, Nevada. The position is responsible for: managing the collections (including registration, processing, preservation, conservation, security and appropriate use of artifacts in museum exhibits) of the Lost City Museum, focused on archaeological artifacts from Ancestral Puebloans who lived in the Moapa Valley region; archaeology and research in support of the museum's collections, often involving collaborative efforts with other state and federal agency partners; managing the museum's education program for students and adults, including programming school tours and adult public programs; public outreach and event planning; and maintaining compliance with NAGPRA and state laws regarding American Indian human remains and associated funerary objects. This position has a variable work week from Tuesday to Saturday and is required to work some holidays. Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately if interested as the recruitment may close at any time.

To Qualify:
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
    Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in history, prehistory, natural history, museum studies, education, or closely related field plus two years of professional experience in a museum. This experience must have included experience in exhibit development, and collections registration, and/or developing, promoting, executing and evaluating educational programming; OR one year of experience as a Curator I in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.
Special Requirements
    Statewide travel is required.
    A State of Nevada/FBI background check will be required of the selected applicant.
Additional Position Criteria
    This position is located in Overton, Nevada.
The Examination
Application Evaluation Exam
The exam will consist of an application evaluation. It is essential that applications include detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. The most qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview. The hiring agency may require specific skills related testing as part of the interviewing process.
The following additional questions are part of this Recruitment
1) Do you have experience in managing fragile, ancient archaeological museum collections? If so, please detail this experience and how it was obtained.
2) Do you have experience in conducting archaeological field surveys of historical and pre-historical sites, including excavations? If so, please detail this experience and how it was obtained.
3) Do you have experience with NAGPRA and compliance with it? If so, please detail this experience and how it was obtained.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
For more information about state employment, visit the following:
Division of Human Resource Management: http://hr.nv.gov
Public Employees Retirement System: http://www.nvpers.org
Public Employees Benefits Program: http://pebp.state.nv.us
More Benefits Information: http://nvjobs.nv.gov/Applicants/EB
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Direct Inquiries or Correspondence to:
Division of Human Resource Management
Northern Nevada
209 East Musser Street,
Room 101
Carson City, Nevada 89701-4204

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Division of Human Resource Management
Southern Nevada
555 East Washington Avenue,
Suite 1400
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-1046

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