Custodian Team

Maintenance Team

Craftspeople to do general repairs and construction projects, exhibit construction and painting.

DUTIES:
Will need to be trained with onsite equipment (I.E. Rotary saws, band saws, power drill, etc.) Will need to already have a good basic understanding of building maintenance. Bonus: if they are a skilled Craftsman, and/or know about sprinkling systems.

Research Team

Work with museum staff to assist in historical research on topics related to Wind River Region history, exhibits, update & create vertical files, articles, assist in filling research requests.

DUTIES:

• Training in our research library (how to utilize it to their best advantage) as well as off-site information including making phone calls to the Wyoming State museum and going to the Riverton Ranger Offices to look at their old newspapers in storage.
  • Filling empty subject files with accurate and broad information as well as filling any gaps in the current subject files.
  • Creating new subject files with information that is relevant to Riverton’s history and Fremont County/Eastern Fremont County. (Including the other two museums and beyond)

Event Team

Year-round opportunities; help with museum events large and small. Lend a helping hand with event registration, greeting guests, providing crowd control, ticket sales, logistical support, or program delivery.

DUTIES:

• Will need to be familiar with all sites’ events and programming, including dates and times as well as pricing. Will need to be able bodied especially for treks (I.E. Castle Gardens and the like)
• Will need to be familiar with crowd control techniques including any special training for ADA and night programming.
• Assist or lead treks for private individuals or groups to the petroglyphs or the sheep trap (Dubois Museum) Training will be necessary for how volunteers and museum staff conduct themselves and the things that they say.

Front Desk/Gift Store Attendant

Under the supervision of the site, staff greet and engage visitors. Answer questions (phone and in person), manage gift store merchandise and maintain a neat and orderly museum store. Make sales through QuickBooks. Assist customers with their purchases. Provide general information and track visitors.

DUTIES:

• Will need to have a basic understanding of ADA needs.
• Including but not limited to information on upcoming events and programs, places to eat and stay, etc.
• Will need a good understanding of everything offered in the bookstore/gift shop and will need to be able to make suggestions to anyone who comes in looking to purchase books or other items.
• Training includes POS system and customer service and care.

Gallery Docent

Under the supervision of the site staff, greet and engage visitors while in the exhibit hall.

DUTIES:

• Be a presence in the gallery to answer questions and generally assist visitors.
• Take care of school groups and tour groups by leading tours, doing programs, etc.
• Will need to study on their own (on museum time when visitors do not need assistance) and become familiar with the history of their museum’s area, as well as information on the collection of items on display and exhibits.
• Will need to have a basic understanding of ADA needs.
• Will need to have up to date information on Fremont County and the museum’s general area of history.
• Provide information and interpretation to visitors and help them with any on-site needs

Volunteer Coordinator

Under the supervision of the Central Director and site staff assists in recruiting, training, scheduling and leading volunteers for all aspects of the museum’s volunteer program.

DUTIES:

• Training in all positions for volunteer, they will need training how to manage a schedule, as well as managing “time sheets” for the volunteer.
• Will assist in maintaining up to date information on all volunteers.

Archival/Digitization Team/Historical Identification

Under the supervision of the site curator/collections manager undertake specific projects that require accessioning, backlog, storage, digitization of photos, archival material, tapes to digital format, and help identify pictures and items, etc.

Dubois Museum (placing photographs on public computer so visitors can access their photographs – this also includes Identifying photos and labeling them, and organizing for ease of searching – long term goal.)

DUTIES:
Training in computers (Macs & PCs – depending on site), collection management and artifact handling for photos and fragile documents, as well as training with Past Perfect 5 and FileMaker Pro.

• Moving records from FileMaker Pro to Past Perfect 5 – Riverton Museum
• Entering cataloged items into Past Perfect 5
• Scanning photos & attaching images to records in Past Perfect 5
• Scanning photos from photo collection

Collections Team

Under the supervision of museum Curator/collections manager, assist in cataloging storage collections, cleaning storage, researching, displaying and care for museum artifacts and exhibits.

DUTIES:
Training in handling artifacts as well as the procedure for FIC/Backlog. Training in how to create and maintain museum displays. Basic care.

• Help with backlog/Case Inventory.
• Ideas for new displays/rotating collection.
• Checks on displays off site and assists in checking on offsite storage.

Extra Volunteer Postions

Bluebird Team – Dubois Museum

• There will be several people involved with the Bluebird team. These people will do everything including building bird houses, installing the houses, monitoring and reporting to the museum. Also included is cleaning the houses after each brood or once a year, depending on which the approach the project decides to take.
• Training will include how to build the birdhouses, how to install, how to monitor, how to report, and how to clean the houses.

Visitor Service Coordinator Assistant

• This position will directly work with the VSC on projects. It can include researching subjects, objects, or anything else. It also can include help making displays and anything else needing help.
• Training will be on the job and computer skills are a must.

Administrative Team

Assist in day to day office support – answering phones on weekends, filing, shredding, printing, preparing mailings, data entry as well as researching for new programs and educational materials.

DUTIES:

• Training on customer service and proper message taking skills. How to use office equipment (I.E. Shredder, printers, copy machine, scanners, phones, etc.)
  • Working on setting up accessions note cards
  • Will help keep the WRM subscriptions list up to date
  • Will primarily work on Monday/Saturdays to help with phone calls and emails when it’s only one Supervisor is in the office.
  • Will assist in maintaining our Facebook page.
  • Will help create and pass out flyers and other promotional.

Grounds Keeper Team

Lawn mowing and trimming, spraying of weeds and weed eating, shrub trimming. General grounds work upkeep during the yard season. Snow removal. Volunteer must be able to tolerate outdoor weather conditions. Other outdoor duties as needed.

DUTIES:

• Will need to be trained with onsite equipment (i.e. lawn mower, weed eater, watering system, snow blowers, Polaris tractor, etc.)
• Training will also consist of what is expected as far as what to mow and weed.