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The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm houses one of the best dinosaur track sites in the world. We are located in St. George, southwestern Utah, and have approximately 40,000 annual visitors, many of whom come to our museum as part of their travels to nearby National Parks such as Zion and the Grand Canyon.

Our museum is young and actively growing. We have a small staff and so the director is responsible for almost all aspects of museum operation. This position is a combination of many different duties and skills. The main components of the position are administration and management, and purchasing gift shop inventory. Other duties include marketing, public relations, human resources, arranging group tours, maintaining the web page and social media accounts, applying for grants, event planning, and community outreach. The director also develops and produces new exhibits one to two times per year in collaboration with our site paleontologist and a consulting paleontologist from the local Dixie State University. Daily duties vary greatly and require being a “jack-of-all-trades”. The director must be efficient at multi-tasking and problem solving, whether the problems are solved with a wrench or a business meeting.

Position is full-time and is supervised by a board of directors. Bachelor’s degree required; Masters or Ph.D. strongly preferred. The desired candidate will have museum experience and management experience. History of paleontology museum experience preferred. This is not a paleontology research position, but a director with paleontology experience will have a great advantage when designing paleontology exhibits and outreach programs.

To apply, email the following items to tracksofdinos@gmail.com: 1) A cover letter explaining your qualifications for the position, detailing your experience with the wide variety of duties listed in the job description. 2) Your resume. 3) The names and contact information for three professional references.

For questions about the position, please email our current director, Dr. Liz Freedman Fowler, at tracksofdinos@gmail.com or call 435-574-3466 x1.

The Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading museums, internationally recognised for its dual role as a centre of excellence in scientific research and as a leader in the presentation of natural history through exhibitions, public programmes, publications and the web.

The petrology collections curator is responsible for undertaking everyday curation, documentation, movements and preservation of the NHM collection including rock, Ocean Bottom Deposit and Building Stone collections.

Curation support will include hosting visitors, processing loans, answering enquiries and registration of the backlog of new acquisitions. The post will feed into and contribute to long term collections management, research and collections development goals.

The successful candidate will have a BSc in a geological subject or museum studies (or equivalent experience) and demonstrable knowledge of rock classification coupled with the ability to identify rock specimens (hand samples and under the microscope) without supervision.

You will have experience in the registration of collections materials in a museum collections management system, preferably KE Emu. You will also have experience of carrying out or supporting small collections- based research projects and handling requests for destructive or invasive sampling.

Role competences:
BEFORE beginning your application - Please read the section below about the ‘Online Application Process’ carefully.

If you wish to be considered for this role you will need to address each of the following competences in the ‘other information’ section of your online application:

1. BSc in a geological subject or museum studies
2. Experience of dealing with complex requests and enquiries from the public, scientific researchers and exhibition designers.
3. Experience of handling requests for destructive or invasive sampling.
4. Ability to deal with difficult and demanding visitors in a firm and polite manner.
5. Experience of registration of collections materials in a museum collections management system, preferably KE Emu.
6. Knowledge of relevant national and international data standards.
7. Experience of carrying out or supporting small collections- based research projects.
8. Experience of carrying out independent or participating in group fieldwork..
9. Demonstrable knowledge of rock classification and ability to identify rock specimens (hand samples and under the microscope) without supervision.
10. Experience of giving talks, tours or demonstrations about collections to a wide variety of audiences.
11. Ability to recognise hazards and follow procedures to ensure risks are minimised in the workplace.
12. The ability to solve problems in a flexible and creative manner.

DESCRIPTION
The Benthic Invertebrate Collection museum scientist performs curatorial, preparatory, research, training, collection facility and clerical activities for the SIO Benthic Invertebrates research collection. Expand, develop, upgrade and maintain the Collection, collection database and reprint library. Develop and maintain best practices for specimen curation, storage, and mailing as well as data handling, and data sharing. Develop and maintain the Benthic Invertebrates website, including the online database and image library. Manage collection transactions: track institutional loans, including those for teaching purposes. Ensure proper permits and documentation are current for field collection and museum exchange of specimens. Serve as a point of contact for logistics on specimen transactions. Assist the curator in identifying and applying for available extramural funding. Make recommendations to curator-in-charge for expanding collection.

Train and supervise volunteers or visiting students in the use of the Collection. Assist curators, faculty, scholars, and students in obtaining and identifying specimens for their research projects. Support institutional fund-raising efforts by providing tours and information regarding the collection. Host meetings and present talks to schools and special interest groups on research and collection activities. Organize displays presenting collection materials and research activities. Ensure commonly accepted EH&S protocols are followed in collection lab spaces. Under general supervision, research and publish on invertebrate group/s of interest.

Must be able to work around alcohol and other preservatives. Must be able to go to sea/remote locations for collection purposes. Possess or be able to acquire a SCUBA diving license.

QUALIFICATIONS
Graduation from college with specialization in invertebrate diversity, and systematics and four years of experience in curatorial work, including one year in a supervisory capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledge and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.

Experience in invertebrate diversity, systematics, scientific nomenclature and invertebrate literature.

Experience with website creation and maintenance, with components which encompass a digital image library and an online database.

Experience with DNA extraction and sequencing.

Knowledge of: preserving techniques for large and small invertebrates; museum/collections operations and procedures; collections data systems and loan invoice record-keeping system.

Working knowledge of Environmental Health and Safety guidelines for laboratory and office environments.

Working knowledge of digital photography and post-process editing.

Our Invertebrate specimens are an important part of our Natural Sciences collection and one of the largest collections within National Museums Scotland. The Invertebrate collections include sponges, jellyfish, shrimps, crabs, worms, snails, octopuses, and sea urchins together with extensive and diverse entomological material. The collections are separated into wet preserved specimens, dried specimens and models, and microscope slides. We house several historically significant collections and in recent years we have acquired a number of large and scientifically important collections of marine invertebrates through collaboration with a variety of institutions with an emphasis on retaining samples from British waters.

There are now nearly four million specimens of marine invertebrates in the collection, which form an invaluable resource for the research of British marine fauna, especially the North Atlantic deep sea. In addition, the Entomology portion contains a further 2 million specimens from all over the world with particular strengths in Lepidoptera, Odonata, Hymenoptera, small orders and certain Coleoptera and Diptera.

Required Skills:
As head of section you will have responsibility for developing these collections and leading, managing and participating in the research, interpretation and public programme activities of the section. Working closely with colleagues, there is a huge potential to develop external funding streams for activities, including research, digitisation, collections care and outreach programmes. You will also be able to support the Keeper in developing the Department and help it achieve its aims and ambitions.

You must have a postgraduate degree (or equivalent) in a biological science, together with demonstrable personal expertise in a relevant subject area that could include, but is not limited to, crustaceans, molluscs, worms, bryozoans, poriferans, corals, cnidarians, archnids, and insects.

An excellent communicator with proven research and publication skills, you will be organised, methodical, adept at problem solving, a team worker and a good thinker. You will have a proven track record of grant support, experience in managing staff and projects, and will have good ICT skills.