Archivist

The primary purpose of this position is to support the growth preservation and access of the Archives Centers collections which include paper-based materials photographic media analog audiovisual formats and born-digital records.

Conditions of employment

• Requires career/career-conditional status or eligibility.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.

Conditions of Employment

Qualification requirements including one year time-in-grade at the next lower grade level for promotion candidates must be met within 30 days of the job announcement closing date. See the Required Documents section for additional information.

For information on qualification requirements seeQualification Standards Handbook forGeneral Schedule Positionsviewable on OPM Website.

Qualifications

All applicants must meet these Basic Requirements:

Education: Bachelors degree in archival science or bachelors 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.

In addition to meeting the basic requirements above applicants must also meet the following minimum qualifications:

Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal Service. For this position specialized experience is defined asperforming basic archival duties for an archive museum or library including: appraisal and acquisition collection processing collection management and onsite and remote reference duties.

OR Education:

3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. Related degrees may include library and information science archival studies and archival science.

OR

A combination of related Ph.D. level education and specialized experience as described above; For a full explanation of this option please see the Qualification Standards.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: If you are qualifying by education and/or you have education completed in a foreign college/university described above it is your responsibility to provide transcripts and proof of U.S. accreditation for foreign study. For instructions on where to fax these documents see the Required Documents section of this announcement.
Your resume must be no more than two (2) pages and should clearly demonstrate how your experience aligns with the responsibilities and specialized experience required for this position. Do not copy language directly from the vacancy announcement as you will be deemed ineligible for consideration. Instead provide detailed descriptive information about your actual 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.

Part-time and/or unpaid experience related to this position will be considered to determine the total number of years and months of experience. Be sure to note the number of paid or unpaid hours worked each week.

In aneffort to streamline our hiring process SI employees whose current position of record is in the same job series (1420) and who are in a Federal competitive service appointmentas this advertised position are not required to submit a transcript with your application package. However if selected you will be required to provide a copy of your transcript before your start date in the position.

Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures anyindividual who is currently holding or who has held within the previous 52 weeks a GeneralSchedule position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted servicemust meet time-in-grade requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of thegrade for which you are applying).