- Develop work schedules and assigns tasks based on an approved project schedule, taking into account the individual and team skills of the staff.
- Review work in progress to ensure that assigned deadlines are met or adjusted and that completed work meets stated objectives of accuracy and timeliness.
- Initiate, review, and approve personnel actions to include: promotions, reassignments, performance plans and appraisals, and disciplinary actions. Provides counsel on a routine basis concerning subordinates work skills, training, efficiency, and leave scheduling.
- Accomplish regular tasks along with the designated team include the preservation, cataloging, storage, maintenance, handling, preparation for shipping and receiving, packing and movement of artifacts which vary greatly in size and fragility.
- Supervise and accomplish the movement of historically significant artifacts from storage for restoration/preservation, study, or exhibit.
- Design and construct and/or supervise others in the design and construction of cradles, dollies, and other supports necessary to ensure safe handling, movement, relocation, and storage of artifacts.
Supervisory Museum Specialist - Washington, United States - Non-Departmental Agency
Description
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 Air and Space Museum Collections Processing Unit (CPU) which is responsible for properly protecting the National Collections of Aeronautics and Space Artifacts in perpetuity, guaranteeing intellectual as well as physical control over those collections.
More than one selection may be made from this announcement.
Duties
The Supervisory Museum Specialist assists the Chief of CPU in collections care and personnel management of the unit. He/She reports to and works under the general supervision of the Chief of CPU serving both as a skilled member of the unit and as a supervisor of a team of museum technicians/specialists in the handling, storage, shipping, maintenance, preservation, and exhibition of artifacts from the National Collections. The CPU also maintains records of artifacts by regular entry of information in the computerized collections information databases. Teams are comprised of museum technicians/specialists of varying grades and may include contracted support. This position also provides direction to interns, and volunteers who support the unit.
In this position, you will: