This vacancy is for an Archeologist in the Office of Facilities and Environmental Quality within the Department of Commerce.

Duties

As an Archeologist, you will perform the following duties: Provides technical support, guidance, and review services for environmental review documents, programmatic agreements, and memorandums of agreement to ensure compliance with applicable environmental law, regulations, and policy. Serves as a key formulator and decision-maker for long/short-range strategic program planning and coordination. Contributing significantly to the determination of program resource needs, allocation of resources and effective use. Serves as the subject matter expert to the Secretary, the Department's Chief Sustainability Officer, and OGC on programmatic NEPA, federal historic preservation, natural and cultural resources, and environmental actions related to Tribal affairs. Formulates and conducts a research or non-research (scientific, engineering computing, economic, statistical, or social science-related) program of considerable scope and complexity. Coordinates with internal and external stakeholders for development, review, and submission of the annual Report on Historic Properties. Represents agency in meetings and conferences with other agencies, national, state and local authorities, private industry and public groups to obtain all viewpoints, providing recommendations, and negotiating solutions. Serves as a principal lead in educating and advising the organization and coordinating and consulting with staff for compliance with various Federal Cultural resource mandates. Provides leadership, technical advice and guidance to senior management on cultural resource related matters, including compliance, document adequacy, and training. This position is also advertised under OS-OFEQ-ST-24-1223017, which is open to Merit Promotion eligible applicants. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Archeologist ZP-0193-4 positions within the Office of Facilities and Environmental Quality in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being filled under the DOC Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). The system replaced the Federal GS pay plan structure. Under CAPS, positions are classified by career, pay plan, and pay band. Non-supervisory positions cap out at interval 3 of the band. The ZP-4 is equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade levels. To qualify at the ZP-4 level: BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION Degree 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. 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 in A.1 (including archeological field school). -----OR-- B. 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----- 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 ADDITION TO THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS LISTED ABOVE YOU MUST POSSESS SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience leading a project or team in evaluating an organization's activities to ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing environmental, historic, and cultural preservation (e.g., National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Executive Order 11593, National Environmental Policy Act, the Archeological Research Resources Protection Act, etc.).

Education

See Qualifications Above.

Contacts

• Address Office of Facilities and Environmental Quality 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US
• Name: Shawn Blain
• Email: [email protected]