The incumbent serves as a cultural resource specialist for one or more parks where historical themes comprise a major part of the story. The park has predominantly historical resources are predominant, with significant historical themes and resources are present. Professional fields of study must be pertinent to the park's resources and themes.

Duties

Conducts research, including archival and oral history interviews, on the history of educational equity in the context of American Industrial History Works collaboratively as part of the park interpretation, education, and visitor services team to inform visitors about American Industrial History Contributes to park cultural resources programs, including planning, reports, and compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act Writes reports, presentations, and web content and delivers presentations at academic conferences and public gatherings. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is sedentary, but at times requires travel to repositories of information, and may require visits to remote sites which require walking or riding over rough, uneven surfaces. Documentary research and report writing work is sedentary, entails the ability to concentrate and write for long periods of time. WORK ENVIRONMENT: Most work is performed in offices, archives, and libraries. Assignments may entail work with dusty records or objects.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/30/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. Individual Occupational Requirements - Basic Requirements for History Series, 0170 Possession of a degree in history or closely 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, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education, such as research, writing, teaching, interpretation, or other demonstrable professional activity with an academic institution, historic organization or agency, museum, or other professional institution; or Substantial contribution through research and publication to the body of scholarly knowledge in the field of history. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).This experience includes activities such as: conducting historical research related to American Industrial, Immigration and Westward Expansion History; preparing reports based on research; conducting oral history interviews; planning long-range protection and management of cultural resources; utilizing computerized systems to process and analyze historic data; completing site description forms; and evaluating projects in accordance with NHPA and Section 106 compliance. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least at least three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in history from an accredited college or university. You must include transcripts. -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 include transcripts. Volunteer Experience: 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.

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 Keweenaw National Historical Park 25970 Red Jacket Road Calumet, MI 49913 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Phone: 402 661 1986
• Email: [email protected]