You will serve as an Archaeologist in the U.S Marine Corps MCB Camp Pendleton of MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON.

Duties

You will manage military projects (i.e., MILCON, Repair and Maintenance) by assessing their compliance needs for Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and preparing regulatory documentation. You will review planning, design, and construction documents for compliance with historic preservation statutes. You will develop cultural resource and preservation plans in accordance with established cultural resource laws, regulations, and statutes. You will analyze research results to design, adapt, or modify strategies for incorporation into cultural resource management programs You will advise personnel on cultural resources protection requirements to minimize or mitigate effects on preservation and archeological projects. You will manage cultural resource management contracts.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
• You will be required to perform field tasks that involve prolonged walking and climbing in rough and precipitous heavily vegetated terrain; heavy labor such as digging, lifting, and carrying up to 50 lbs. up to 100 feet.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate most or all of the following: 1.) Reviewing, planning, designing and constructing documents for compliance with historic preservation statutes; 2.) Developing cultural resources and preservation plans in accordance with established cultural laws, regulations and statutes; 3.) Analyzing research result to design, adapt, or modify strategies for incorporation into cultural resource management programs; and 4.) Advising personnel on cultural resources protection requirements to minimize or mitigate effects on preservation and archeological projects. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Archeology Series 0193 (opm.gov)

Education

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:1. DEGREE

• Successfully completed a bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university that included 3 semester hours each in 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. OR

2. 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 listed above in 1 (including archeological field school). OR

3. 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

4. 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.

-----In lieu of specialized experience listed in the Qualifications section, applicants may qualify based on education OR equivalent combination of experience and education as follows:

You must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree;
OR
you have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree;
OR
you have successfully completed an LL.M. degree that is related to the position being filled. https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/;
OR
you have a combination of experience and graduate education as described that equates to one year of experience. The percentage of the required education plus the percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.

Applicants MUST provide all relevant transcripts needed to verify education listed below.

Contacts

• Address MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON USMC Camp Pendleton, CA 92055 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]