This position will be located at either Petersburg National Battlefield, in Petersburg, VA or at Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, VA. Open to the first 50 applicants or until 12/20/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years, or more based on any changes to regulations governing the number of years term appointments may last, without further competition. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service. The National Park Service retains the right to extend the duration of this appointment after selection and/or appointment, based on changes to the regulation governing the number of years term appointments may last. This change, which may be made at the agency's sole discretion and without further competition, shall not be construed or interpreted as the granting of a right to a selectee or employee to such an extension. No extension to a term appointment shall be granted to a selectee/employee to an amount of time that exceeds the maximum number of years authorized under any present or current regulation, unless such regulation expressly allows such action. Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Manages a comprehensive archival and records management program and the management of the park library including the planning, development and supervision of functions, setting goals and maintaining operations to acceptable archival and library standards. Accessions appropriate collections into the park museum collection, using the National Park Service (NPS) automated collections management system. Develops and maintains liaisons and effective working relations with related groups. May represent park when working with others on archives matters. Evaluates all records, archival and manuscript collections with the records management guideline. Evaluates records against scope of collection statement and archival appraisal criteria. Arranges the collection. Creates, edits, and indexes folder lists, box/container lists, and updates/edits and indexes the collection-level survey description. Produces finding aids and repository-level guide.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/20/2024-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. This position has Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR), you must meet the BASIC educational requirement *AND* meet the ADDITIONAL Specialized Experience and/or Education in order to qualify for this position. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION: Successful completion of a full four-year course of study at an accredited college or university leading to 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. You must submit all college transcripts that demonstrate the requirements with your application. -OR- COMBINATION EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Combination of education and experience that included at least 30 semester hours that included courses as shown in A 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. You must submit a copy of all your transcripts and include hours per week and months per year worked in your resume. 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: performing archivist duties for the management and preservation of archival and manuscript collections within park museum programs or similar operations, which involve the application of professional archival or museum standards to process and preserve records and collections; Evaluating records, archival, and manuscript collections; Utilizing Federal Records Management guidelines; Managing museum and archival collections with standard professional procedures, including accessioning, cataloging, researching provenance; Performing basic preservation or conservation on collections, rehousing collections, monitoring environment in collection spaces, creating finding aids for collections. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a Ph.D. degree or equivalent Doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related (e.g., Archival Science or History). You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education by dividing your number of semester hours in excess of 36 semester hours by 18 or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. For example, 45 semester hours of graduate education (50% of education requirement) plus 6 months specialized experience (50 % of experience requirement) would qualify an applicant for this position. Only graduate education beyond the first two years is creditable toward the GS-11. 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
• Name: Amy Whittington
• Email: [email protected]