Collections Assistant (Program Associate II)
Salary
$17.62 - $21.42 Hourly
Location
Tacoma, WA
Job Type
Part-time, 29 hrs per week or less
Department
Parks and Recreation
Opening Date
01/22/2025
Closing Date
2/17/2025 11:59 PM Pacific
Job Description
Based on our internal equity review process, the starting salary for this position will be $17.62
The current full hourly range for this position is $17.62 -$21.42
Join the exceptional staff of Fort Nisqually Living History Museum! The mission of our accredited museum is to engage a diverse regional audience with Puget Sound's first globally connected settlement through historic preservation, experiential learning, and interpretation. The Collections Assistant works in conjunction with the Curator of Collections and has an adequate understanding of collection management standards and curatorial best practices. The position supports the maintenance and preservation of the museum’s collections through artifact handling, housekeeping, and curatorial storage maintenance. The position is required to maintain proper documentation of the museum collections through accessioning, photography, cataloging, inventories, object files, and museum collection database (CatalogIt) work. The Collections Assistant provides prompt responses to research inquiries as well as assists in the conservation, research, and exhibition of the museum collections as assigned.
Work where you play!
Join our team at Parks Tacoma to put your skills to use serving your community and making Tacoma a vibrant, healthy, and welcoming place to live.
Who We Are
Parks Tacoma is a CAPRA-accredited and AZA-accredited, independent park district that leads efforts to build a healthy, sustainable community. Located in Tacoma, Washington, Parks Tacoma's mission is to create healthy opportunities to play, learn, and grow. The independent park district spans the city providing a wide range of life-enriching destinations and services, including 70+ parks, 80+ miles of trails, 1,000+ acres of urban forest, 66 playgrounds, four community centers, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Point Defiance Park, and much more. Our work is guided by eight core values that are the foundation of our actions and goals: innovation, excellence, equity, inclusiveness, sustainability, accountability, safety, and fun.
Why You’ll Love it Here
Come work with us and work where you play! You will contribute to the overall vitality and well-being of your community when you work for Parks Tacoma, and you’ll do so as part of a supportive team of committed, passionate, and mission-driven professionals. The people of Parks Tacoma are the key to its success, and you just might be the next great addition to our team. On top of that, you’ll wake each day knowing that you’re helping make Tacoma a great place to call home.
Position Information
Perform a variety of duties and complexity for assigned division/department
In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to:
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
- Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers.
- Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
- Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.
- Observe applicable safety requirements, use safety equipment provided, implement appropriate safety practices at all times and report immediately any unsafe working conditions or hazards.
Essential Duties
- Provide routine work functions that align with industry deliverables.
- Assist in maintaining and updating files, graphics, inventory and/or database systems.
- Create, prepare and/or maintain a variety of records logs and/or files; locate materials and information in records and files. Prepare and distribute information as required.
- Respond to customer inquiries, receive and elevate complaints, and respond to requests for deliverables.
- Perform job duties on time and within standards to meet deadlines and operational objectives.
- Interprets and applies established policies and procedures where clear and ample precedent has been established.
- Implement division strategies to achieve stated goals.
- Perform job duties on time and within standards to meet deadlines and operational objectives.
- Provide specialized support to other department staff, assisting with technical and/or complex duties.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 18 years of age.
- At least 2 years of related experience OR Associate’s degree in related area required.
- High School Diploma or GED
Additional Information
HOURS:
Up to 28 hours per week
Some nights and weekends required
COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:
- Demonstrate knowledge of assigned program area.
- Demonstrate knowledge of safety guidelines and practices.
- Ability to handle conflict and solve problems using tact, patience, and courtesy.
- Ability to navigate emergency situations.
- Work with diverse groups of people in a tactful, effective, and respectful manner.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, the community and program participants.
- Follow instructions, both written and verbal.
- Ability to safely perform job tasks in a variety of park and non-park settings.
WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Operate a computer and other office equipment.
- Ability to communicate to conduct program and exchange information with district employees and customers.
- Bending, stretching, walking, sitting, and standing for extended periods.
- Ability to prepare written or typed recreational and leisure program material and monitor activities.
- Noise level is moderately loud.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion.
- Ability to navigate emergency situations, including performing CPR.
PARKS TACOMA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, political affiliation, disability or any other merit factor. Members of ethnic minorities, women, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam-era, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans, persons of disability and/or persons age 40 and over are encouraged to apply.
Parks Tacoma employs only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized non-U.S. citizens. All new employees must show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Parks Tacoma is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact Human Resources at
hr@tacomaparks.com.
Employment is subject to a national background check.
This position is an at-will position with no written or implied contractual agreement.
Employer: Parks Tacoma
Address4702 S. 19th St.
Tacoma, Washington, 98405
Websitehttps://www.parkstacoma.gov/
