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Salary : $3,579.00 - $7,025.00 Monthly
Location : New Orleans, LA
Job Type: Classified
Job Number: CRT-2026-222866-PW
Department: Culture Rec & Tourism-State Museum
Opening Date: 06/30/2026
Closing Date: 7/7/2026 11:59 PM Central
About this Job
This is a full-time position located at the State Museum in New Orleans, LA.
This position supervises and performs organization and maintenance of collections records, forms, documents, files, and retrieval systems associated with the acquisition, accession, cataloging, packing, shipping, insurance, and storage for the care, custody, and control of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum.
The Louisiana State Museum's collections and educational programs stimulate awareness and appreciation of our state's rich and diverse history and culture.
Minimum Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in museum studies, a humanities field, historic preservation, or fine arts plus two years of museum or curatorial experience; or in a humanities field, historic preservation, or fine arts; OR
A bachelor's degree in forestry, wildlife or natural resource management, botany, biology, or ecology plus two years of museum or curatorial experience; or in forestry, wildlife or natural resource management, botany, biology, or ecology; OR
A master's degree in museum studies, a humanities field, historic preservation, fine arts, forestry, wildlife or natural resource management, botany, biology, or ecology plus one year of museum or curatorial experience; or in a humanities field, historic preservation, fine arts, forestry, wildlife or natural resource management, botany, biology, or ecology; OR
A doctorate degree in museum studies, a humanities field, historic preservation, fine arts, forestry, wildlife or natural resource management, botany, biology, or ecology.
Job Specification
The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.
Job Duties and Other Information
Job Duties:

• Oversees development of agenda for pre-Accessions and Accessions Committee meetings, including information on donations, purchases, incoming and outgoing loans, conservation contracts, etc.
• Provides required information to the Director's office. Submits board memos to the Directors office for supplementary items to be included in bard agendas.
• Responsible for ensuring that artifacts are transferred as necessary for accessions and board meetings.
• Ensure that cage areas are kept in order.
• Processes new acquisitions and related paperwork in accordance with the Museum's Collections Management Manual. Assigns accession numbers and maintains accurate accession logs. Maintains master files, donor files, creating tiles for all new acquisitions and loans, and location in inventories.
• Organizes and coordinates all collections-related incoming and outgoing loans.
• Creates and processes loan paperwork. Responsibility includes the handling and/or packing of objects in conjunctions with curators, preparing condition reports, processing insurance claims, making shipping arrangements coordinating security needs, handling customs procedures, processing incoming and outgoing loans, and processing requests for rights and reproductions.
• Works with collections curators and exhibits staff to coordinate object retrieval, incoming and outgoing loans.
• Works on old loan resolutions as needed.
• Maintains consistent collection databases, development of new databases, systems management, upgrading of systems.
• Produces computer reports from database as needed. Seeks to further knowledge of registration and collections management methods.
• In the absence of any curator, provides assistance to inquiries.
• Works with supervisor, assistant registrar, and collection curators as a team member to realize common goals set for the collection's division and the Museum as a whole.
• Assists new collection staff members in understanding LSM record keeping and collections management procedures.
• Works closely with assistant registrar to realize primary functions of registrar's office. Includes training, solving personnel problems, conducting evaluations.
• Supervises and coordinates volunteers and interns working on registration projects. Supervises collection inventory.
• Orders all supplies for the registration office.
• Works with security staff to recommend procedures for security of storage and exhibit areas.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Position-Specific Details:

• Appointment Type: This is a probational appointment. Current permanent status state employees may be required to accept a probational appointment.
• Work Schedule: This is a full-time position that reports in-office. This position may be required to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and/or overtime. This position may be required to travel.

How To Apply:
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
* Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism are participants in the E-Verify system for identification and employment eligibility purposes.
Louisiana as a State, is a Model Employer for People with Disabilities.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Pacee Wallace
Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
1051 N. 3rd Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Phone: 225-342-8202
pwallace@crt.la.gov
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity to make a difference through public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
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Parental Leave - Up to six weeks paid parental leave
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Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
• Mardi Gras,
• Good Friday,
• Memorial Day,
• Independence Day,
• Labor Day,
• Veteran's Day,
• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
Retirement- State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (). LASERS has provided this video to give you more detailed information about their system
• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (),
• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (), among others

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