Category: Jobs

Curator, Fossil Bryozoans, Sponges and Worms

Published: September 6, 2023    Curator, Jobs

Closing: September 25, 2023

Natural History Museum, London https://www.nhm.ac.uk/ Title:              Curator, Fossil Bryozoans, Sponges and Worms  Contract:       Permanent, Full time (36 hours per week) Salary:           £33,396 per annum  About the role Working within the Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology curatorial team, the Curator of Fossil Bryozoans, Sponges, Worms and Trace Fossils will have curatorial responsibility within the Natural History…

Marine Invertebrate Technician

Published: September 5, 2023    Jobs, Research Position

University of California, San Diego https://scripps.ucsd.edu/mbrd DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW The Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD) consists of research laboratories in the fields of cell and developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, microbiology and physiology of marine organisms. More than 20 laboratories. Cell and developmental biology: algal biofuels, biochemistry of fertilization and embryogenesis of sea urchins, developmental…

Head: Library, Archives, and Special Collections

Published: August 31, 2023    Jobs

Canadian Museum of Nature – Library, Archives, and Special Collections https://nature.ca/en/ Your place at the Museum We value diversity and believe we benefit from working in a place where everyone feels included and where the unique qualities and strengths inherent in a diverse workforce are combined. We welcome applications from persons who may identify as…

Director, Software and Bioinformatics

Published: August 31, 2023    Computer Science, Jobs

Missouri Botanical Garden https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/ Whether you are just starting your career, looking for professional growth or re-entering the workforce, Missouri Botanical Garden may have just the right opportunity. We have a wide range of interesting and challenging opportunities, from botany and science to informational technology, marketing, education, sustainability, and more. We are as committed today…

Curator (Collection Manager) of Freshwater and Marine Invertebrates

Published: August 16, 2023    Collections Manager, Curator, Jobs

Auburn University Museum of Natural History http://aumnh.auburn.edu/ Job Summary: The Auburn University Museum of Natural History (AUMNH) is seeking a Curator (Collections Manager) for its Freshwater and Marine Invertebrate collection. The successful candidate will have curatorial experience in crustaceans, arthropods, mollusks, echinoderms, annelids, cnidarians, and/or other invertebrates. Our collections of ~45,000 lots are currently strong…

Collection Manager, Entomology (one year term)

Published: August 16, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs

Royal British Columbia Museum https://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/ CAREER OPPORTUNITY Collections Manager, PPM, Entomology Research and Collections Management Archives, Collections and Research DivisionOne Full Time Position – One-year term until 2024 Heritage Resources Officer 18 Annual Salary Range: $ 62,255 – $ 70,557 JOB OVERVIEW Under the general direction of the Director of Research and Collections Management, this…

Film Inventory Contractor, Fishes

Published: August 11, 2023    Jobs, Program/Project Manager

Smithsonian – National Museum of Natural History https://naturalhistory.si.edu/ Project Title Wrapping Up the Vertebrate Zoology Film-based Media Project Final Steps This Request for Quote is issued by the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Vertebrate Zoology for professional, technical, non-personal, work-for-hire services, in support of the Museum’s mission. NMNH seeks a request for quote for…

Collections Assistant, Natural History

Published: August 4, 2023    Collections Assistant, Jobs

Denver Botanic Gardens https://www.botanicgardens.org/ Position Summary This position is responsible for overseeing the Denver Botanic Gardens natural history collections, which includes two herbaria (plants and fungi), an arthropod collection and other biological assets. These regional collections are to be maintained at established and approved standards for use by the scientific, educational and general public audiences. …

Collections Manager, Mineral Sciences

Published: August 3, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles https://nhm.org/ The Natural History Museum of LA County (NHMLAC) seeks a Collections Manager of Mineral Sciences. NHMLAC’s Mineral Sciences collection includes approximately 150,000 specimens, including minerals, rocks, meteorites, gems, and related synthetic materials.  The collection is worldwide in scope but has particular strengths in minerals from California, native gold,…

Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology

Published: July 31, 2023    Curator, Jobs

Florida Museum of Natural History https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida (UF) seeks qualified applicants for a 12-month tenure-track Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. This position will be filled at the Assistant faculty level in the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History. The Vertebrate Paleontology division currently consists of two curators, three full-time staff,…

Director, Redpath Museum

Published: July 31, 2023    Jobs, Museum Director / President

Closing: August 15, 2023

Redpath Museum of McGill University https://www.mcgill.ca/redpath/ Position Details: About the Redpath Museum The Redpath Museum is the oldest natural history museum in Canada, the only natural history museum in Montreal, and the largest in Quebec. Built in 1882, the Museum is also Canada’s oldest purpose-built museum.   The Redpath Museum of McGill University serves both…

Collection Manager, Vertebrate Paleontology

Published: July 31, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs

Carnegie Museum of Natural History https://carnegiemnh.org/ Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is among the top natural history museums in the country. It maintains, preserves, and interprets an extraordinary collection of artifacts, objects, and scientific specimens used to broaden understanding of evolution, conservation, and biodiversity. Carnegie Museum of…

Director of Collections Care & Access

Published: July 31, 2023    Jobs, Museum Director / President, Program/Project Manager

Carnegie Museum of Natural History https://carnegiemnh.org/ Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is among the top natural history museums in the country. It maintains, preserves, and interprets an extraordinary collection of artifacts, objects, and scientific specimens used to broaden understanding of evolution, conservation, and biodiversity. Carnegie Museum of…

Museum Data Management Support

Published: July 26, 2023    Digitization, Jobs, Request for Quote

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History https://www.si.edu/museums/natural-history-museum The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Informatics and Data Science Center is seeking data management services support for two projects in the Digital Stewardship program. Project 1 covers pan-museum collections data enhancement and clean up. Project 2 focuses on georeferencing and cleanup of collections locality data. The…

Curator of Plants

Published: July 26, 2023    Curator, Jobs

Royal Ontario Museum https://www.rom.on.ca/en The Position: Associate Curator, Curator, or Senior Curator of Plants ROM seeks an innovative and collaborative Curator to build, interpret, and share the Museum’s plants collection and to be an engaging spokesperson for the importance of green plants, including vascular plants, pteridophytes, bryophytes, and algae. The Curator of Plants will initiate…

Museum Technician

Published: July 25, 2023    Collections Assistant, Jobs

Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College https://www.amherst.edu/museums/naturalhistory Amherst College invites applications for the position of Museum Technician at the Beneski Museum of Natural History. This is a part-time (16 hours per week), casual hourly position, starting at $24.00/hour, without benefits. Given Amherst’s distinction as one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in…

Collections Project Manager

Published: July 25, 2023    Jobs, Program/Project Manager

University of Mississippi, Department of Sociology and Anthropology The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi seeks a collections project manager for its ethnographic and archaeological materials. This position will direct an ongoing effort to curate objects and associated records obtained during more than a century of research under a National Park…

Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology

Published: July 24, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs

Yale Peabody Museum https://peabody.yale.edu/ The Yale Peabody Museum (CT, USA) is currently seeking an Invertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager. The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager oversees the daily stewardship, use, and development of the fossil invertebrate and relevant microfossil collections and the associated staff, facilities, and resources of the division. The Collection Manager promotes and facilitates research…

NEON Biorepository Biodiversity Informatician

Published: July 18, 2023    Computer Science, Jobs

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/ The Arizona State University (ASU) School of Life Sciences is seeking a Biodiversity Informatician (Database Analyst) for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository (https://biorepo.neonscience.org/). NEON is expected to run for 30 years. For each project year, the NEON Biorepository at ASU will receive, process, store, and make…

Museum Director

Published: July 18, 2023    Jobs, Museum Director / President

Arizona Mining, Mineral and Natural Resources Education Museum (Phoenix, AZ) https://ammnre.arizona.edu/ The incumbent (founding Director) will be responsible for institutional vision and strategy: refining the vision for the institution as its founding Director through the development of a strategic plan and related documents (e.g., a business plan); overseeing a building renovation project by coordinating the…

Curator, Ichthyology

Published: July 10, 2023    Curator, Jobs

Closing: July 31, 2023

The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) is one of the large, globally connected research museums of the Leibniz Association. In addition to excellent research on biodiversity and its change, we are advancing the development of our extensive scientific collections with an international…

Assistant Curator, Natural History

Published: June 20, 2023    Collections Assistant, Collections Manager, Exhibits, Jobs

Closing: June 28, 2023

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton Under the general supervision of the Curator of Natural History in the State Museum, NJ Department of State, plans and implements natural history collection research, cataloging, care, and management, and plans and implements field research projects; initiates, plans, researches, implements, and evaluates exhibitions on natural history subjects; seeks, researches, and…

Associate Registrar/Repatriation Coordinator

Published: June 20, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs, Program/Project Manager

University Job Title: Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody NAGPRABargaining Unit: None – Not included in the union (Yale Union Group)Time Type: Full timeDuration Type: RegularCompensation Grade: Administration & OperationsWage Ranges: Click https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/careers/wage-ranges to see our Wage RangesWork Location: Central CampusWorksite Address: 170 Whitney AvenueNew Haven, CT 06511Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)Searchable Job Family: Museum/CuratorialTotal…

Control Room Security Officer

Published: June 15, 2023    Jobs, Operations

University Job Title: Security Officer 2 (M&L)(*)Bargaining Unit: Excluded – Excluded (Yale Union Group)Time Type: Full timeDuration Type: RegularCompensation Grade: Labor Grade CWage Ranges: Click here to see our Wage RangesSearchable Job Family: Museum/Curatorial, SafetyTotal # of hours to be worked: 37.5Work Week: Flexible or Non-Standard (for anything other than Standard)Work Location: Central CampusWorksite Address: 170 Whitney…

Assistant Director, Visitor Exp. & Special Events

Published: June 9, 2023    Jobs, Museum Director / President

Bargaining Unit: None – Not included in the union (Yale Union Group)Time Type: Full timeDuration Type: RegularCompensation Grade: Galleries & MuseumsWage Ranges: Click https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/careers/wage-ranges to see our Wage RangesWork Location: Central CampusWorksite Address: 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)Searchable Job Family: Museum/Curatorial Total # of Hours to…

Entomology Curator

Published: June 7, 2023    Curator, Jobs

Job reference: CIX-022427Salary: £35,308 -£43,155Faculty/Organisational Unit: Cultural InstitutionsLocation: Manchester MuseumEmployment type: PermanentDivision/Team: Manchester MuseumHours Per Week: 1 FTE / 35 hours (flexible working will be considered)Closing date: 26/06/2023Contract Duration: PERMSchool/Directorate : Manchester Museum Could you help Manchester Museum harness the power of natural sciences collections to build a more sustainable world?   As part of our collections team, you’ll be responsible for our significant and…

Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship

Published: June 5, 2023    Jobs, Research Position

Closing: September 30, 2023

The Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University to pursue the discovery and formal taxonomic description of Earth’s animal species. Fellows will work under the supervision of one or more MCZ faculty-curators, who will provide office space, access to lab facilities and necessary research support.…

Supervisory Museum Specialist (Fishes)

Published: May 25, 2023    Collections Manager, Jobs

The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo.  The position is located within the Department of Vertebrate Zoology, NMNH.  The purpose of this position is to supervise the work of the Division as a first level supervisor in accordance with the established collections management…

iDigBio Citizen Science Manager

Published: May 25, 2023    Digitization, Jobs, Program/Project Manager

Department of Biological Science | Institute for Digital Information & Scientific CommunicationFlorida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA We invite applications for a part-time position managing the citizen science activities of iDigBio’s domain focused on Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science.  iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) is in its 12th year as the National Science Foundation’s National Resource for…

Science Data Administrator

Published: May 22, 2023    Collections Manager, Computer Science, Jobs

Closing: June 20, 2023

Position: Science Data Administrator (reports to the Director of Integrative Collections) Hiring Range: $80,000-$93,000Position closes June 20, 2023 The Denver Museum of Nature & Science seeks a Science Data Administrator to work within the Integrative Collections Team to manage digital collections data and databases. This position is a vital member of the collections team, working to…