This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as an Archeologist engaged in the preparation, administration, and inspection of archeological surveys, archeological testing, and excavation contracts.

Duties

Plan, conduct, and supervise cultural resources investigations, including records and literature searches, archival studies, and field work consisting of reconnaissance and intensive surveys, test excavations and data recovery excavations. Coordinate with project managers to assure that schedules and funding accommodate cultural resources requirements. Identify properties that are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, evaluates and compares impacts that proposed activities may have on significant cultural resources. Develop mitigation plans which minimize adverse impacts and/or preserve cultural resources. Review environmental documents submitted by other agencies and prepares review comments. Represents the Corps of Engineers as an environmental planner at meetings with other agencies. Initiate and maintain liaison with archaeologists and other professionals in universities, museums, historical societies, and other local, State and Federal agencies. Coordinate with project managers and with Contracting Division, and evaluation and selection of proposals.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify at the GS-07 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: assisting with conducting anthropological, archaeological and/or historical studies of cultural resources, involving planning, and scheduling of assigned projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). OR Education: One full academic year (18 semester hours) of graduate-level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as Archeology. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) OR Superior Academic Achievement: To be creditable under this provision, Superior Academic Achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled, such as that identified in Education above. Superior Academic Achievement is based on: (1) Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses, OR (2) Grade-Point Average (G.P.A.) - Applicants must have a grade-point average of either (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; OR (3) Honor Society Membership - Applicants may be considered eligible based on membership in one of the approved national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies (https://www.achsnatl.org/). (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts and/or verification of class standing with your application.) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position if the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) To qualify at the GS-09 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing anthropological, archaeological and/or historical studies of cultural resources, involving planning, scheduling, analyses, and evaluation of assigned projects; preparing reports documenting anthropological, archeological and/or historical compliance with Federal cultural resource directive. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). OR Education: master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years (36 semester hours) of graduate-level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as Archeology. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position if the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) To qualify at the GS-11 grade level, you must have: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes conducting anthropological, archaeological and/or historical studies of cultural resources, involving planning, scheduling, budgeting, research coordination, analyses, and evaluation of assigned projects; preparing reports documenting anthropological, archeological and/or historical compliance with Federal cultural resource directive; providing the research and compliance process as part of the Environmental Studies Team. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years (54 semester hours) of progressively higher-level graduate education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as Archeology. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position if the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. (Note: You must submit copies of ALL relevant transcripts with your application.) In addition to the qualification requirements listed above, you MUST meet the individual occupational requirements (IOR) stated in the Education section below.

Education

Basic Requirement for Archeologist, series 0193:

Education: Degree that included 3 semester hours in each of the following course areas:

• History of archeology.
• Archeology of a major geographical area such as North America or Africa.
• Regional archeology, archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development.
• Theory and methods of archeology. Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques.
• Archeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work.

AND

Six semester hours of related course work in:

• geography, geology, or cultural geography;
• history, historiography, or historical archeology;
• environmental studies;
• scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or
• surveying;

AND

• Archeological field school.

Related Curriculum: degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements in A.1 (including archeological field school).

OR

Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described in A above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education.

OR

Experience: Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology. The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school. Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials. Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher-grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project.

For more information on the Individual Occupational Requirements for the Archeology Series 0193, please click here.


FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

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