This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Serves as an archivist at a Presidential Library and is responsible, along with other members of the archival staff, for planning, performing and monitoring all archival functions in a variety of media, establishing work priorities, and ensuring that priorities and work assigned to the archival staff are completed in compliance with NARA policies, standards, and procedures.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. 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 Archivist, you will: - Develop procedures and conduct processing and review of presidential holdings and related collections many of which continue to retain high levels of sensitivity and present complex processing problems. - Plan and direct the arrangement of donated, presidential, and federal records. Determine the arrangement for records that are totally disarranged, misfiled, or for which the provenance is unclear. - Independently provide reference service in response to simple and complex email, phone, in-person, and written requests for information regarding the Library's textual and non-textual holdings and secondary sources of information. - Apply preservation techniques and recommend digitization strategies for textual records or audiovisual materials.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: - Utilizing archival principles in order to maintain and administer record keeping systems; AND - Designing and executing activities geared towards connecting researchers with archival records (examples may include activities at every point of the archival life cycle: accessioning, processing, description, reference, digitization); AND - Interpret and enforce policies and regulations regarding the use of records. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-09, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: - Utilizing archival principles in order to maintain and administer record keeping systems; AND - Interpret and enforce policies and regulations regarding the use of records. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows:2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (i.e., beyond the first year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-11, you must have been at the GS-09level for 52 weeks. For the GS-09, you must have been at the GS-07 level for 52 weeks.

Education

Education Requirements: The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Individual Occupational Requirements:

A. Bachelor's degree in archival science or bachelor's degree with a major that includes 18 semester hours in archival science, history and/or in political science or government, and 12 semester hours in one or any combination of the following: archival science, history, American civilization, economics, political science, public administration, or government.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience - at least 30 semester hours that included courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES 2313 Red River Street Austin, TX 78705-5702 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-8990
• Email: [email protected]