This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, which collects, preserves, and makes accessible to the public a rich body of archival materials on U.S. domestic issues, foreign relations, and political affairs during the Cold War era, focusing on the Ford administration. It also offers a wide variety of special events, speakers, book signings, forums, educational workshops, films, and other programs and exhibits.

Duties

As a Metadata Technician, you will: Create metadata to support digitization projects of textual and audiovisual collections, establish intellectual control over digitized resources, and prepare resources and metadata for submission to archival collection information databases and other systems. Administer the Library's collection information databases and spreadsheets; perform data cleanup as necessary; and serve as primary liaison to overarching database administrators and application vendors. Lead in the preparation of archival materials for digitization and support archival digitization as captured by contractors, staff and interns. The incumbent will coordinate textual and audiovisual digitization workflow as part of the digitization work plan, and provide quality control for completed digitization projects. Work on large-scale imaging production projects in an archival context, but may also provide indexing, metadata creation, and data entry for a range of other projects, including digitization for exhibits, routine imaging, special requests, and other moderately complex digitization projects.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For the GS-09, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with metadata and formatting in relation to archival and/or artifact collections; AND Preparing digital imaging formats for submission into a variety of systems; AND Making image enhancements and/or modifications to digital images. In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable (as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F): For the GS-09, you must have been at the GS-07level for 52 weeks.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address LEGISL ARCHVS, PRES LIB, AND MUS SV 1000 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2114 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-8990
• Email: [email protected]