Job opening: Archives Technician
Salary: $45 314 - 65 463 per year
Published at: Jan 18 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Performs non-professional, quasi-professional, and technical work that supports access to archival holdings and physical and intellectual control over records. The work encompasses the full range of archival support services.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. 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 Archives Technician, you will:
- Provide written and oral "first-line" reference assistance and consultation, responding to all forms of inquiry concerning NARA's broad range of archival holdings, in original or surrogate format, by using complex finding aid systems and related archival sources, in both electronic and analog formats.
- Pull and refile records according to NARA policies and procedures.
- Review information about records prior to making them available to researchers, ensuring that access restrictions are being followed.
- Independently monitor the use of records by the public and address customer usage that threatens the safety of records or limits access.
- Participate in the digitization efforts of archival holdings for public access following broad NARA guidance and procedures.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
Specialized Experience: For the GS-07, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Using judgement and analysis to determine the proper course of action and steps needed to accomplish an assignment; AND
- Performing archival or related functions (Examples may include monitoring, pulling and refiling records, reference, arrangement and description, and/or holdings maintenance); AND
- Communicating and assisting various audiences.
For the GS-06, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Performing archival or related functions (Examples may include monitoring, pulling and refiling records, reference, arrangement and description, and/or holdings maintenance); AND
- Communicating and assisting various audiences.
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-07, you must have been at the GS-06level for 52 weeks.
For the GS-06, you must have been at the GS-05level for 52 weeks.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address LEGISL ARCHVS, PRES LIB, AND MUS SV
2313 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78705-5702
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-8990
- Email: [email protected]
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