This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The incumbent serves as the Subject Matter Expert for Records Related to Federal Law Enforcement, with the purpose of utilizing expert archival and subject matter knowledge to promote access to a specific body of significant and complex archival holdings encompassing one or more record groups.

Duties

As an Archivist, you will: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for assigned holdings at the Research Services and lower organizational levels; provide recommendations, advice, guidance, or reports supporting critical management decisions and day-to-day operations about assigned holdings, Provide expert reference consultation according to reference protocols and procedures internally and externally. Carry out complex professional assignments involving delivery of advisory services to federal agencies; accessioning and processing of records; protecting records and ensuring their proper storage, handling, conservation; and delivery of both pro-active and re-active reference service that demonstrates broad knowledge of holdings.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. To be qualified for this position at the GS-13 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience for this position must include: Leading a team, program, or project; AND Collaborating and executing communication strategies, plans or policies to individuals; AND Utilizing archival principles in order to maintain and administer record keeping systems. 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-13, you must have been at the GS-12level 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:

Basic requirements for all grades:

• 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

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

Professional experience must have been in archival science, or in a directly related field of work such as history that involved the collection, appraisal, analysis, or synthesis of information having historical or archival values. The following are illustrative of kinds of experience that may be accepted as meeting the professional experience requirements: (1) experience as an archivist in Federal, state, religious institution, business, or other archives, or in manuscript depositories, and (2) experience of an archival nature that involved research in archival science, or in a directly related field such as history, government, economics, political science, international relations, or international law.

Contacts

• Address Research Services 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-8990
• Email: [email protected]