This permanent full-time position is located in Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. For information on the area or duties of the position please contact [email protected] or 740-466-6801 Open to the first 25 applicants or until 07/18/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

TRIBAL LIAISON: Assists the HOCU Superintendent and management team in building and maintaining effective government-to-government relationships with Park associated American Indian tribes to facilitate meaningful consultation, coordination, and collaboration. Assists the Superintendent to meet the requirements set out in the DOI Policy on Consultation with Indian Tribes (512 DM 4). Develops and maintains effective working relationships with Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, traditional religious and cultural practitioners, tribal museums, tribal educators, and other tribal representatives for the purpose of exchanging information about Park resources, projects, and programs; consultation, coordination, and collaboration; and learning about tribal interests. Develops and maintains effective working relationships with the State Historic Preservation Officer, state and federal agencies, and the public for resource protection, conservation, and education purposes. Supports Park staff with training, consultation guidance, and technical support. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Manages the Park's museum collections and the HOCU Multi-Park Collections Facility. Carries out responsibilities in the four museum functions of collections, exhibits, research, and education. Provides overall professional and technical direction for the museum collection program. Ensures development and implementation of all required museum collection programs and plans in compliance with the NPS museum property accountability rules and procedures as described in NPS-28 Cultural Resources Management Guideline, NPS-77 Natural Resources Management Guideline, NPS Museum Handbook, and other publications as applicable. Serves as custodial officer for the Park's museum collection. Consults and prepares inventories, notices, plans, agreements, and other management actions required to comply with NAGPRA. Provides authoritative technical direction for management of the Park's archives including, but not limited to, maps, notes, data records, photographic materials, plans, and resource management records. Directs the activities of the Park's library. Plans and implements proper curatorial procedures for on-site and outside exhibits. Implements procedures to preserve and protect objects while on exhibit. Conducts research to conceive and develop exhibits. Recommends, plans for, and executes collections research required to meet NHPA, NAGPRA, NPS guidelines, and the research needs of the Park. Reviews collections research proposals and makes recommendations for approval to Park managers. Conducts scholarly, technical, and/or applied research to ensure up-to-date documentation, interpretation, and education based on Park collections; thorough cataloguing; and safe and orderly storage and conservation and preservation of Park collections. CULTURAL RESOURCES STEWARDSHIP. Assists the Integrated Resources Program Manager to plan and implement the Park's cultural resource management activities. Prepares and coordinates the preparation of cultural resource management plans and specific action plans pertaining to the management and protection of cultural resources. Develops and implements long-range plans for the inventory, evaluation, documentation, preservation, monitoring, research, and interpretation of Park resources. Advises Park management on cultural resources. Carries out program management duties by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and proposal to justify funding requests and accomplish goals. Develops and maintains relationships with researchers, resources managers of other agencies, cooperating universities, volunteers, and other such entities in order to encourage and facilitate cooperative strategies. Serves as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative or Agreements Technical Representative for projects conducted through contracts, interagency agreements, and cooperative agreements. COMPLIANCE: Prepares environmental compliance documents for Park projects in compliance with NEPA and NHP A. Identifies research needs, prepares requests for proposals or statements of work, and provides oversight for environmental compliance reviews. Plans and conducts cultural resource investigations including records and literature searches, archival studies, and archeological field work including reconnaissance and surveys, test excavations, and data recovery excavations. OUTREACH: Makes presentations in parks, public gatherings, Tribal communities, and at professional meetings regarding Park resources and resource issues. Provides review and oversight or makes significant contributions to Park interpretive plans and programs. Responds to a wide variety of public inquiries, publishes scholarly essays and writes exhibition materials.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/18/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess the Individual Occupational Requirement Basic Education for the series AND one of the minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATION REQUIREMENT FOR ARCHEOLOGIST GS-0193. YOU MUST SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS. Successful completopn a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher 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, provided 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- Successful completed a full 4-year course of study in related curriculum obtained at an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics); history; American studies, or a related discipline, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements stated above (including archeological field school). -OR- A combination of education and experience that provided knowledge equivalent to that described in A above, plus appropriate additional education or technical experience to total 4 years. This combination must have demonstrated that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of an archeologist comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study. -OR- 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-level 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. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATION REQUIREMENT FOR MUSEUM CURATOR GS-1015. YOU MUST SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS. Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in museum work or an applicable subject matter field. -OR- A combination of education and experience that included course work equivalent to a major in museum work or a closely related discipline; PLUS appropriate experience or additional course work. The quality of the combination must demonstrate that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four-year course of study with a major as described above. -OR- Four years of experience that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the four-year course of study as shown above. AND EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: more focus on project work rather than programmatic responsibilities. Examples of specialized experience includes: assisting with archeological research design, planning, directing, and completing inventories (often called surveys) and excavation projects; authoring technical reports; evaluating National Register of Historic Places eligibility for cultural resources; assessing effects of federal undertakings on cultural resources in compliance with NEPA and NHPA; and mitigating adverse effects through archeological studies. Specialized experience includes assisting with museum collections management including exhibits, cataloging, storage, and documentation; Tribal consultation and preparation of inventories, notices, plans, agreements, and other management actions required to comply with NAGPRA; program management duties such as developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and funding requests; assisting with State and Tribal consultation, and coordination with State and Federal agencies, universities, volunteers, and others to facilitate cooperative conservation; proficient use of service-wide cultural resource databases and GIS; and public interpretation of archeological resources and museum collections. You must include hours per week worked on your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR three years of graduate-level education in archeology, anthropology, museum work which is directly related to the work of this position and demonstrates possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for this position. You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts indicating degree earned and credit hours to qualify based on education. A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty, if selected. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts indicating degree earned and credit hours to qualify based on education. A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty, if selected.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your 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.

Contacts

• Address Hopewell Culture National Historical Park 16062 State Route 104 Chillicothe, OH 45601 US
• Name: Michele Hofer
• Email: [email protected]