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<i>FYI for anyone looking for a botany related position in the DC area!</i></div>
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<b>Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09</b></div>
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OPEN DATE: August 7, 2025</div>
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CLOSING DATE: August 21, 2025 (This job will close once 150 applications are received which may be sooner than the closing date). </div>
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POSITION TYPE: Trust Fund</div>
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APPOINTMENT TYPE: Temporary, not-to-exceed 1 year</div>
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(May be further extended based on performance and availability of funds)</div>
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PROMOTION POTENTIAL: IS-09</div>
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SCHEDULE: Full Time</div>
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DUTY LOCATION: Washington, DC </div>
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The National Museum of Natural History is seeking an experienced candidate to serve as a
<b>museum specialist in the Department of Botany</b>. Our plant collections total 5 million specimens, making this collection one of the ten largest in the world. This position will support the NMNH partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. </div>
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All work performed will be in accordance with established collections management policies and procedures of the Botany department and NMNH. The incumbent is involved in various technical aspects of collections, curation, and research support, including the
transportation, preparation, registration, preservation, storage and utilization of the plant collections.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For the seeds,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sarah </span></p>
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Bureau of Land Management - Contractor</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><a style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" title="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAee91b481-1d3b-644a-fb5d-72a8aee3739a" href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection">Seeds
of Success</a></span></p>
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Conservation Alliance</a></span></p>
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<i>I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Nuwe/Nume (Paiute, Shoshone, Bannock) people, as well as other indigenous tribes who traveled through the area known as Idaho who have stewarded
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