Job opening: Visual Information Specialist
Salary: $59 966 - 77 955 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Nov 07 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
About the Position: Incumbent functions as a Visual Information (VI) Specialist responsible for producing a variety of VI products and assists customers in planning and preparing presentation materials, and advises customers on various properties, characteristics and capabilities of multimedia formats.
Duties
Perform a variety of administrative and clerical duties in support of the Multi-media Visual Information Branch.
Design, plan, lay out, originate visual information displays, drawings, illustrations, graphics, photographs, computer graphic and digital electronic images, charts, maps, signs, badges, paper prints, posters and transparencies.
Select colors, techniques, textures, and other factors necessary to add realism or emphasis to the information or products.
Maintain equipment manuals to ensure instructions are readily available regarding equipment operations, processes and procedures.
Perform operator and unit level maintenance on visual information production equipment.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation, Tier 1.
- The duties of this position require the incumbent to possess or obtain and maintain a valid state Driver's License in one of the 50 U.S. states or possessions to operate vehicles.
- This position has a Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel requirement of 15% of the time.
- Some weekend work, and work beyond the normal operation hours, may also be required.
- Term employment is subject to a one-year trial period. Employees serving a trial period can be removed with limited appeal rights.
- This is a Term position scheduled to last 13 months.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Assisting customers with preparing presentation materials, 2) Operating a variety of equipment such as printers, scanners, cameras, cutters, computer graphics or copiers to produce presentation products; AND 3) Providing multimedia support utilizing digital electronic equipment. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
OR
Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: commercial art, fine arts, art history, photography, visual communication, or other fields related to the position.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Communications and MediaCustomer ServiceTechnology Management
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the 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. For further information, visit:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address FU-W0XYAA US ARMY IMCOM-USAG FT MCCOY
DO NOT MAIL
Fort McCoy, WI 54656
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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