About the Position: Serves as a Historian on a team of specialists that perform as archeological, cultural resources, historic preservation, and collections specialists. Duties emphasize the identification, evaluation, and treatment of historic buildings and structures. This position will be located in St. Louis, MO and will allow for occasional telework only. This position is NOT eligible for full time telework.

Duties

Serves as a staff expert in addressing historic structures and buildings concerns related to Corps civil works, military programs, and work for other Federal agencies. Develops and maintains plans, procedures, and documentation for the evaluation, protection, preservation, mitigation, and management of historic properties within the District boundaries. Ensures agency actions are in compliance with Federal historic preservation laws, regulations and policy. Prepares reports on subjects of historic property significance for scientific, technical, and survey reports; design memoranda; environmental assessments; permit evaluations; and environmental impact statements. Establishes cultural resources project scopes, schedules and budgets, workload strategies and priorities, and historic property program goals in consultation with the first-line supervisor, project delivery team members, and MCX CMAC director. Performs field reconnaissance to locate and assess the significance of historic structures and buildings. Performs literature, library, and file research to compile existing environmental, historical, architectural, or other cultural resources information. Prepares statements of work and costs estimates for historic property studies or services to be conducted by contractors for the Government.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Work requires some physical exertion such as walking, bending, crouching, stopping, stretching, climbing, or similar activities.
• Participation in site work requires more than normal office activities such as walking distances of a few miles over rocky, hilly, or muddy terrain carrying small and lightweight equipment and personal items.
• May be required to lift and move moderately heavy objects of no more than 25 lbs (i.e., archival documents and record storage boxes).

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. Basic Requirement: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in history; or related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history. OR Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major in history, or a major in a related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Minimum Qualifications GS-11: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes meeting THREE OF THE FOUR FOLLOWING: 1) preserving historic properties in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) or other relevant laws, policies, and standards; 2) identifying potential impacts to historic properties; 3) identifying and/or evaluating the eligibility of historic properties (including cultural landscapes and historic buildings, linear resources, structures and sites, and their component parts) for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); and 4) writing technical documents on historic property issues.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 of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: History. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as 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 Minimum Qualifications GS-12: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes meeting FOUR OF THE FIVE FOLLOWING: 1) preserving historic properties in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) or other relevant laws, policies, and standards; 2) identifying potential impacts to historic properties; 3) identifying and/or evaluating the eligibility of historic properties (including cultural landscapes and historic buildings, linear resources, structures and sites, and their component parts) for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); 4) writing technical documents on historic property issues; and 5) developing approaches to management of historic properties and their physical attributes, systems, and/or use that are compatible and sensitive and aimed at retention of resource integrity and historical significance. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Education

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.

Contacts

• Address RG-W2R903 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-ST LOUIS DO NOT MAIL St. Louis, MO 63103 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk