Field Museum https://www.fieldmuseum.org/ The Field Museum invites applications for an Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. Thisterm position has a probationary period of 3 + 3 years. After successful promotion to the Associatelevel, it is renewable every seven years, according to the Field Museum’s Policy Statement on theCuratorial Ranks. The Field Museum’s Earth Science Section has…
Published: November 3, 2023 Collections Assistant, Jobs
Field Museum, Invertebrate Zoology Collection https://www.fieldmuseum.org/department/invertebrates The Field Museum is hiring a full-time Collections Assistant to work in the Invertebrate Zoology Collection. The Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) Collection serves as a repository (over 300,000 lots containing well over a million specimens) for basic and applied research of recent mollusks and all other invertebrates (including urochordates) exclusive of insects, arachnids, and myriapods.…
Published: October 19, 2023 Jobs, Lab Manager, Preparator
Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum https://naturemuseum.org/ Specimen Preparator and Lab Supervisor (part-time) The Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (CAS/PNNM) seeks a creative individual with an interest in natural history collections, engaging the public, and experience in specimen preparation to join its Collections Department as a Specimen Preparator and Lab Supervisor. Reporting…
Published: September 6, 2018 Collections Assistant, Jobs
ExpiredINTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION Internship Title: Collections Intern Internship Department: Biology – Collections Supervisor: Director of Collections Objective: The Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s (CAS/PNNM) natural history collections are a library of the natural world documenting Midwestern biodiversity from 1830 to the present. Glass plate negatives from the audiovisual collection taken between 1898 to…
Published: January 17, 2018 Collections Assistant, Collections Manager, Jobs
ExpiredAssistant Collections Manager (Full Time) Department: Biology – Collections Reporting to the Director of Collections, the Assistant Collections Manager assists with the management, preservation, and accessibility of the collections. This position will continue specimen data migration from the scientific and teaching collections into Arctos (http://arctos.database.museum/), our online digital collections management system and may assist with…
Published: September 29, 2017 Collections Manager, Jobs
ExpiredThe 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: August 5, 2016 Jobs, Museum Director / President
ExpiredThe Field Museum Director, Gantz Family Collections Center Chicago, Illinois The Field Museum, one of the world’s preeminent natural history museums, seeks a dynamic, imaginative, and collaborative science professional as its next Director of the Gantz Family Collections Center. The Director will provide strategic vision and direction for the Museum’s collections and programs, overseeing maintenance,…
Published: March 29, 2016 Collections Manager, Jobs
ExpiredField Museum, Chicago, IL The position involves all aspects of care, maintenance, and accessibility of The Field Museum’s mammal collection. This large, actively growing collection is home to many research and education initiatives by both resident and extramural scientists. Duties include overseeing all aspects of specimen preparation, identification, care, and organization of specimens; training, supervision…
Published: November 13, 2015 Jobs, Museum Director / President
ExpiredThe Field Museum collections are among the top natural history collections in the world for their breadth, scope, and quality. The Field is one of the few institutions with collections that cover planetary origins and the full history of life on Earth with botanical, zoological, geological, and anthropological specimens and artifacts. The Museum’s strategy in…
