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Supervisory Museum Curator (Assistant Director)

Offices, Boards and Divisions · Department of Justice

Museum Curator

Salary
$169,279–$197,200/year
Grade
15
Work location
Telework eligible · Washington, District of Columbia
Schedule
Full-time
Posted
Sep 29, 2026
Apply by
Oct 13, 2026
Category
Museum Curator

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Summary

Serves as the Supervisory Museum Curator of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), manages professional, technical, and operational activities of the DOJ Museum. Directs museum administration, artifact and historical collections, preservation and conservation, exhibits, interpretation, education, historical research, and documentation.

Duties

The duties and responsibilities for a Supervisory Museum Curator generally include, but are not limited to, the following: Serve as the Assistant Director for Museum Management for U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), manages museum operations, collections, exhibitions, preservation activities, and history programs. Perform the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Direct museum administration, artifact and historical collections, preservation and conservation, exhibits, interpretation, education, historical research, and documentation. Implement Department-wide policies governing museum operations, historical collections, preservation, research, interpretation, and information access. Manage museum program budgets, collections care resources, contracts, facilities, technology investments, and internal controls.

Education

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements, please see the statements below. Education must be reviewed and certified by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, in order for it to be creditable towards your qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from accredited institution. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website. If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Transcripts must be uploaded with your application to verify education. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation. If you are using education to qualify for this position, or education is required: You must submit a transcript, which may be unofficial, as long as it contains a full listing of courses, credit earned, grade and grade-point-average, subject area, degree(s) earned, and dates of award. Your transcript must come from a nationally accredited educational institution recognized by the Department of Education. Please do not submit electronic transcripts with documentation security protection. These may prevent our application system from accepting and processing the document. If submitting a foreign transcript, you must have the transcript reviewed by an approved foreign education review organization recognized by the Department of Education. Your transcript must also be in English or have an English translation included.

How you will be evaluated

How You Will be Evaluated Once the announcement closes, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be conducted by the HR Specialist. This information will be compared against your responses to the application questionnaire to determine your eligibility for Federal employment, and then whether you are qualified for this particular position. If a determination is made that you have inflated your responses when compared to your background information, you may be deemed ineligible. One of the multi hurdles will consist of applicant resumes being reviewed by a Subject Matter Expert (SME) panel for related position competencies against a pre-determined rating schedule. This process will determine the final rating of the applicant for possible referral to the hiring official for hiring consideration. BASIS OF RATING: DOJ's Merit Promotion Procedures will be used to evaluate candidates. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, and other characteristics): Change Management Museum Administration Supervisory and/or Managerial If you would like to preview the application questionnaire, please see: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13078470.

About this listing

Offices, Boards and Divisions has 37 open listings on the site: all telework eligible. This one is telework eligible, based in Washington, District of Columbia. See all Offices, Boards and Divisions listings, or read what fully remote and telework eligible mean.

Advertised pay is $169,279 to $197,200 a year. That covers GS-15 on the General Schedule, where pay also depends on step and locality; how GS pay works.

This announcement is open for 14 days, from Sep 29, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026. Among currently open federal postings, the typical advertised window is about 13 days. As of Oct 6, 2026, it closes in 7 days.

Who can apply: current competitive-service federal employees, federal employees eligible for career transition programs, veterans and 6 other groups. This announcement is not open to the general public. The announcement's "This job is open to" section has the exact eligibility rules.

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