Indiana University-Bloomington invites applications for a combined Paleontology Collections Manager and Digital Projects Coordinator We seek an individual with primary interests in invertebrate paleontology and collections digitization who will help us maintain our momentum in transforming paleontology at IU and advancing digital initiatives in all of our natural history collections through the Center for Biological Research Collections…
Published: December 1, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Collections Manager for Non-Molluscan Invertebrates Salary: $35,474.00 – $57,292.00 Location: Wake County, NC Job Type: Permanent Full-Time Department: Dept of Natural and Cultural Resources Closing: 1/5/2018 5:00 PM Eastern Description of Work The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) is the state agency with a vision to be the leader in using the…
Published: November 28, 2017 Collections Assistant, Internships, Jobs
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is seeking an Assistant Collections Manager in the department of Vertebrate Paleontology. This is a part-time (not to exceed 20 hours per week) grant funded position for two years (Bureau of Land Management Cooperative Agreement No. L17AC00191). This position provides support for the curation, conservation, and digitization of vertebrate fossils and…
Published: November 28, 2017 Curator, Jobs
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The Natural History Museum of Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) hopes to fill a full-time position (40 hours) of a curator/ scientist of the Phanerogamae collection of the botany department. The botanical collection of NHM Wien is one of the most important collections worldwide (http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/research/botany) with approx. 5.5 million herbarium specimens, of which more than 200,000 are…
Published: November 21, 2017 Curator, Jobs, Museum Director / President
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The Fundy Geological Museum is situated adjacent to the world-renowned Bay of Fundy in the town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It is one of Nova Scotia’s 28 provincial museum sites and has been operated by the Cumberland Geological Society (CGS) since its opening in 1993. Its mandate is to present the history of geological time…
Published: November 21, 2017 Collections Assistant, Jobs
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is seeking an Assistant Collections Manager in the department of Vertebrate Paleontology. This is a part-time (not to exceed 20 hours per week) grant funded position for two years (Bureau of Land Management Cooperative Agreement No. L17AC00191). This position provides support for the curation, conservation, and digitization of vertebrate fossils and…
Published: November 14, 2017 Curator, Jobs
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The Illinois State Museum (Springfield, IL) is hiring a Curator of Anthropology. Applications due by November 28. Please share widely! DESCRIPTION Executes highly specialized duties and complex projects that require special expertise in Midwestern archaeology. Works largely without supervision, generally at his/her own direction through conferences with appropriate Museum Director and/or Museum Section Heads, and/or Curator…
Published: November 14, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The Auburn University Museum of Natural History (AUMNH) is seeking a Curator (Collection Manager) for its Aquatic Invertebrate Collection. The successful candidate will have curatorial experience in crustaceans, arthropods, mollusks, echinoderms, annelids, cnidarians, and/or brachiopods. Our collections are currently strong in freshwater crayfishes, molluscs, and insect nymphs and Antarctic invertebrates. Duties of the collection manager…
Published: November 3, 2017 Collections Assistant, Jobs
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Job Description: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) seeks a motivated individual with a background and passion for archaeology collections to work on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded project to move and rehouse our world-class Archaeology collection of over 100,000 objects. This position will work with the Integrative Collections and…
Published: November 1, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology is hiring an Insect Collection Manager. How to Apply A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly…
Published: October 30, 2017 Computer Science, Jobs
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The University of Wisconsin Natural History Museums Council is seeking an informatics specialist/database manager as part of a 2-year grant to centralize the databases of the university’s five natural history museums. In order to achieve the goal of a unified UW natural history museums data portal for the entire campus and public, the database manager…
Published: October 30, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University is looking to fill a full-time staff scientist position entitled “Staff scientist, Collections”. The successful applicant for this position will manage OGL’s collections and supervise its staff. The Staff Scientist will manage the scientific, communications, and organizational functions of the Ocean Genome Legacy non-profit biorepository of marine DNA and…
Published: October 26, 2017 Jobs, Museum Director / President
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Family of Museums shares over 35 million objects representing 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history with millions of visitors each year. The Family is comprised of three iconic Los Angeles-area locations, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA) in Exposition Park, the La…
Published: October 13, 2017 Curator, Jobs
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Duke Lemur Center Please submit CV with cover email to DLC-Job@duke.edu prior to December 20, 2017. The position will report directly to the Director of the Duke Lemur Center (DLC). The person occupying the position is expected to function at a high academic level, maintaining an active research program and building the scientific reputation of…
Published: October 10, 2017 Jobs, Research Position, Teaching
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Description Earlham College invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, a tenure-track position with teaching and research interests in field-based ecology and evolutionary biology. The position in the Department of Biology begins in July 2018. The Department seeks an individual who is first and foremost excited about teaching — in lecture, laboratory and research…
Published: October 6, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University’s second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: natural and human systems; food,…
Published: September 29, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The Field Museum has an immediate opening for a Paleobotany Collections Manager. This full-time, permanent position reports to the Head of Geological Collections in the Gantz Family Collections Center. The incumbent will be responsible for the management and development of one of the largest fossil plant collections in North America. This is a collection position. …
Published: September 29, 2017 Conservator, Jobs
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Grade 5: £24,983 – £27,799 p.a. Oxford University Museum of Natural History is seeking to recruit a Life Sciences Conservator. The postholder will have responsibility for the conservation of the specimens on display and in store and the maintenance of the Museum’s IPM. We are seeking a skilled team player with a track record of…
Published: September 22, 2017 Collections Assistant, Jobs
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Description: The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM) is looking to hire a 2 year, full-time project technician for the Non-Molluscan Invertebrate Unit of the Research and Collections Section. This position will be funded via an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant (www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/ma-30-17-0117-17). The person in this position will work…
Published: September 21, 2017 Jobs, Preparator
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Job Description: The Zoology department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science seeks a talented and experienced individual to supervise and manage specimen preparation in a new Biosafety Level 2 (BSL2) Laboratory. The Zoology collections are growing rapidly and we are seeking a vertebrate preparator to ensure that the new specimens prepared and incorporated…
Published: September 18, 2017 Jobs, Museum Director / President
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Description: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) seeks a motivated individual with a background and passion for natural history and the management of collections to fill a new and exciting position, Director of Integrative Collections. The Museum’s research, education, archives, and library collections have been consolidated under one functional area, and we are in search…
Published: September 15, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
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The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History invites applications for an Invertebrate Collections Manager position. We seek an individual with interests in non-insect invertebrates to guide the continued growth and management of the physical collections and associated resources including archives and paper records, databases, and genomic resources. Our museum is a world-class natural history…
Published: September 13, 2017 Internships, Jobs
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Closing Date for Applications: Sunday, September 24, 2017 by midnight. Position Summary: The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History seeks to fill a part-time (30 hours per week), 1.3-year internship with opportunity for 1 year renewal for a graduate or undergraduate student (or recent graduate) in invertebrate zoology, life sciences, taxonomy, museum studies…
Published: September 6, 2017 Curator, Jobs, Research Position, Teaching
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RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open September 1st, 2017 through December 1st, 2017 DESCRIPTION The Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley invite applications for a full time (50% IB, 50% MVZ) tenure-track position in vertebrate evolutionary biology at the Assistant Professor/Assistant Curator level. Potential start date is July…
Published: August 31, 2017 Internships, Jobs
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The Mammoth Site is a sinkhole of late Pleistocene fauna. Over 10,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils have been uncovered at The Mammoth Site from its initial field season in 1974 to present. These bones belong mostly to Columbian mammoths; more than 2,000 specimens are preserved in-situ. At least 29 other vertebrate species are found at the site, and specimens…
The Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, invites applications for an Assistant Curator (equivalent to Assistant Professor), a tenure-track position, who will serve as curator-in-charge of the Herbarium, including supervision of its staff. The successful candidate is expected to conduct a dynamic research program focused broadly on the evolutionary biology of plants. Qualified…
Published: August 24, 2017 Jobs, Research Position
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The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) and Yale University invite applications for a data scientist to help develop and advance the innovative use of informatics tools for the synthesis and utilization of biodiversity information in research and education. The YPM is among the oldest, largest, and most active university natural history museums in…
Published: August 24, 2017 Curator, Jobs, Research Position, Teaching
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Department of Biology & Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma DESCRIPTION OF POSITION: We seek a creative, collaborative thinker with a collection-based research program involving molecular approaches to studying fish systems. We are especially interested in candidates who use genomic tools and data sets in combination with innovative computational, ecological, behavioral and/or comparative approaches to…
Natural History Museum Specialist at Eastern Tennessee State University Job Summary: Reports to the director of the Center of Excellence in Paleontology and the Head Curator. Museum Specialists represent highly trained individuals in the museum field that have specialized training and experience. This Museum Specialist position is essential to fulfill the following needs in the…
Published: August 2, 2017 Collections Assistant, Jobs
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Position Overview Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum is seeking a Collections Assistant! This position is responsible for assisting the Collection Manager in the care of the museum’s cultural and natural history collections, including but not limited to conducting inventories of the collection; arranging and organizing collection items to facilitate care and management; inputting collection data to…
