As Curator of Vertebrates , the successful candidate will work with the Collections Manager to facilitate the use of collections for research and education, oversee growth of the collections, write proposals to support collections care and digitization, and provide expertise to the campus community and to state and local authorities. The MSU Museum (https://museum.msu.edu/) maintains a collection of over 117,000 vertebrate specimens (birds, fish, herps, mammals, and paleontological), and has a long history of supporting faculty and student engagement via teaching, outreach, and collections-based research.