This position is an Interdisciplinary position. Applicants may qualify by meeting the basic educational or experience requirements for any of the three occupational series. Historian GS-0170 and Landscape Architect GS-0807. You must provide transcripts. Open to the first 50 applicants or until 10/23/2023 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

Assists parks with coordination of their historical and other cultural resource strategies and programs with activities on adjacent lands for the purposes of achieving broad protection strategies and minimizing human impacts. Responsible for the identification, research, planning, treatment, and preservation maintenance of cultural landscapes and associated features including historic structures. Possess knowledge of NPS planning and management requirements and guidelines so that plans result in programs that provide adequate long-term protection for resources. Effectively carry out program management duties by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and proposals and/or grant applications to justify funding requests and accomplish goals. Performs landscape architectural duties associated with review, design, treatment, and monitoring of cultural landscapes within project sites that may have diverse climatic, geographic, and environmental conditions. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/23/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Basic Requirement: Must meet the Secretary of Interior Professional Standards for Historian GS-0170, Anthropology GS-0190 and Landscape Architect GS-0807. Transcripts and/or professional licenses must be provided to document how you meet this basic requirement. Historian GS-0170: Possess a graduate degree in history or a closely related field of study. -OR- Possess a bachelor's degree in history or a closely related field plus one of the following: At two years of full-time experience in research, writing, teaching, interpretation, or other demonstrable professional activity with an academic institution, historic organization or agency, museum, or other professional institution OR Substantial contribution through research and publication to the body of scholarly knowledge in the field of history. Landscape Architecture GS-0807: Possess a degree in landscape architecture or landscape design. (You must provide transcripts). -OR- Possess a professional degree in architecture plus at least two (2) years of full-time experience in architecture, applying the theories, methods, and practices of Landscape Architecture that enables professional judgments to be made about the identification, evaluation, documentation, registration, or treatment of historic properties in the United States and its Territories. -OR- Possess a State License to practice architecture. - AND - GS-11 LEVEL: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience at the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Develop and maintains effective working relations with Native Americans, and related groups, agencies, and the public. Coordinates cultural resources programs with those on adjacent lands. Provides for public involvement, including Native Americans and other associated groups. Develops and maintains peer relationships with researchers, subject matter experts, and resources managers of other agencies, universities, and associated groups. Performs or directs project-oriented work in one or more of the professional fields mentioned above. Negotiates cooperative and interagency agreements to carry out resource stewardship goals. Identifies research needs, prepares proposals, statements of work, and oversight for research projects. Serves as a Contracting Officer's Representative for projects on contracts, interagency agreements, and cooperative agreements. Serves as liaison with the State Historic Preservation Office, Native Americans and other traditionally associated groups, and other interested parties. -OR- EDUCATION: Completion of at least 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in history, cultural anthropology, landscape architecture or other closely related fields. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. GS-12 LEVEL: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience at the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: include in-depth research, identification and planning for the treatment and preservation maintenance of historic and prehistoric structures. Perform in-depth architectural research associated with the review, design, treatment, and monitoring of historic and prehistoric structures. Prepare historic reports documenting existing conditions and defining treatment actions based on examination of the structure, documentary research, and professional evaluation of all data. Professional research methods in historical landscape architecture, acquired through experience supported in your resume. Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing. Possess the knowledge used to plan, carry out, and evaluate cultural resource studies, to assess value and quality of investigative results, and to evaluate significance and proper management or interpretation treatment of cultural landscapes and associated features.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.

Contacts

• Address Interior Region 3, 4 and 5 601 Riverfront Drive Omaha, NE 68102 US
• Name: Central HR Central Team
• Phone: 402-661-1562
• Email: [email protected]