This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Serves as an archivist at a Presidential Library and is responsible, along with other members of the archival staff, for planning, performing and monitoring all archival functions in a variety of media, establishing work priorities, and ensuring that priorities and work assigned to the archival staff are completed in compliance with NARA policies, standards, and procedures.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position. As an Archivist, you will: - Independently review both non-classified and national security classified documents (if appropriate, depending on the individual's assignment/library) for content requiring withdrawal or redaction for national security classification, agency, or donor deed of gift restrictions. - Plan and direct the arrangement of donated and Federal records. - Independently provide reference service in response to simple and complex e-mail, phone, fax, and written requests for information regarding the Library's textual and non-textual holdings and secondary sources of information. - Independently determine and apply appropriate declassification guidelines to presidential papers, donated historical materials, and Federal records, consulting with the senior archivist for foreign policy, other archivists, and agency representatives on difficult review decisions.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Utilizing various systems or databases to locate, analyze, index, and manage archival records; AND Collaborating and participating in projects describing or preserving a body of records; AND Communicating and planning activities geared towards providing record access to researchers. (Examples may include: activities at every point of the archival life cycle: accessioning, processing, description, reference) OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. 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: Utilizing various systems or databases to locate, analyze, index, and manage archival records; AND Communicating and planning activities geared towards providing record access to researchers. (Examples may include: activities at every point of the archival life cycle: accessioning, processing, description, reference) OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (i.e., beyond the first year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.

Education

Education Requirements: The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Individual Occupational Requirement:

Basic requirements for all grades:

• Bachelor's degree in archival science or bachelor's degree with a major that includes 18 semester hours in archival science, history and/or in political science or government, and 12 semester hours in one or any combination of the following: archival science, history, American civilization, economics, political science, public administration, or government.

OR

• Combination of education and experience - at least 30 semester hours that included courses as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address LEGISL ARCHVS, PRES LIB, AND MUS SV 200 S.E. Fourth Street Abilene, KS 67410-2900 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-8990
• Email: [email protected]