Museum Curator Family
Career series with 1 positions
Museum Curator (history) is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
What it takes is 2 years of relevant experience.
Museum Curator is a single-title classification family: Museum Curator (history) is the only position in it.
Specializations
Positions in This Family
- MUSEUM CURATOR (HISTORY) (05484)
What the Museum Curator family covers
Museum Curator is a single-title family in the New Jersey civil service classification plan: one title code, with no numbered rungs above or below it. Every title in it is a local title, used by the counties, municipalities, authorities and boards that have adopted civil service under Title 11A rather than by state departments.
Public school teachers in New Jersey are not civil service, so the education titles in this system are the ones that sit outside a classroom: instructors in correctional and developmental facilities, curriculum and program development staff, and the education specialists at the Department of Education. Library titles are different again. County and municipal libraries are among the local employers that adopted civil service in their own right, which is why librarian and library assistant series carry local codes and appear in the local jurisdiction directory.
What each title does
The published specification opens with this definition of the work.
- Museum Curator (history): Under direction, plans, organizes, develops, and directs all activities and programs in a museum containing exhibits, collections, objects, and artifacts of a…
Getting in: the stated requirements
None of the specifications in this family names a degree requirement, which places these titles among the New Jersey positions open to applicants without formal higher education. Experience requirements sit at 2 years wherever they are stated.
On how the jobs are filled: 1 is competitive, filled from an eligible list after an open competitive or promotional examination.
How the pay is set
No state salary schedule applies here, because these are local titles. Pay is set by each adopting county, municipality or authority under its own ordinance or negotiated agreement, so two employers using the same title code can pay very differently. How local civil service pay works.
Where these jobs exist
These are local titles, so the hiring employers are New Jersey's counties, municipalities, authorities, library boards, school districts and fire districts that have adopted civil service under Title 11A. Not every New Jersey employer has. A town that never adopted the system hires however it chooses and never posts against these codes at all, which is why checking the employer before checking the title saves time. Look up whether an employer is a civil service jurisdiction, or read how local civil service differs from state.
Related titles elsewhere in the plan
Nearby in the plan, ranked by how distinctive the shared terms are rather than by how many words happen to match.
- Museum Curator (local jurisdiction)
- Museum Attendant (local jurisdiction)
- Senior Museum Technician ($60,876 to $88,743, state jurisdiction)
- Museum Registrar, Fine Art ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction)
- Supervisor State Museum Exhibits ($79,844 to $117,228, state jurisdiction) — in the Supervisor family
- Museum Registrar, Natural History ($66,592 to $97,354, state jurisdiction)
Common questions about Museum Curator jobs
How many Museum Curator titles are there in New Jersey civil service?
The Museum Curator family holds 1 title code. Each code is a separate classification with its own published specification, requirements and salary treatment.
What does a Museum Curator earn in New Jersey?
No state salary schedule figure is published for the titles in this family, which is normal for local classifications. Local civil service employers set their own pay by ordinance or negotiated agreement, so the rate depends on which county, municipality or authority is hiring.
Do you need to take an exam to become a Museum Curator?
Yes for most of the family. 1 of the 1 title are in the competitive division, which means appointment comes from an eligible list built by an open competitive or promotional examination.
What qualifications does a Museum Curator need?
No degree requirement is parsed from the specifications in this family, which puts these titles among the New Jersey civil service jobs reachable without formal higher education. Experience of 2 years is named where a requirement is stated.