Job opening: ARCHIVES TECHNICIAN
Salary: $48 649 - 63 245 per year
Published at: Sep 20 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Incumbent performs non-professional, quasi-professional, and technical work that supports access to archival holdings and control over records. Work includes a full range of archival support services to include digitization in particular, but also reference, research assistance, customer service, archival processing, accessioning, disposal, preserving, and reformatting of records.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-06. 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:
Prepare online catalog descriptions of holdings at all levels according to NARA lifecycle standards, policies, and procedures.
Provide digitization support through preparation of materials for digitization, scanning, and creation of metadata.
Provide written or oral "first-line" reference assistance and consultation, respond to all forms of inquiry concerning NARA's archival holdings, in original or surrogate format, by using complex finding aid systems and related archival sources, in both electronic and analog formats.
Perform detailed and complex arrangement work following a plan (or guidance) approved by supervisor or team leader.
Independently evaluate the physical condition of records in the course of other duties and alerts supervisor or other designated staff to condition problems that limit access or threaten the safety of records.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
Specialized Experience: 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
Identifying and creating metadata.
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-06, you must have been at the GS-05level for 52 weeks.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
1000 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2114
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-8990
- Email: [email protected]
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