Archivist

This position is located at Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, in the Resource Management Division. This position is primarily duty stationed at Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS in Gallitzin, PA, however it provides support to all five Western Pennsylvania National Parks: Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS (ALPO), Flight 93 National Memorial (FLNI), Fort Necessity National Battlefield (FONE), Friendship Hill National Historic Site (FRHI), and Johnstown Flood National Memorial (JOFL).

Qualifications:

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-06/20/2023-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.

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.

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• 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 one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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). Specialized experience demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of an Archivist. For this position, specialized experience is experience providing technical professional support and assistance in the organization, description, and preservation of archival or manuscript historic document collections including those related to the history of land use and cultural and natural resources management and experience conducting research using archival collections on cultural and natural (biology, geology, or paleontology) topics. You must include hours per week and months per year worked in your resume.

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• EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least three (3) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited educational institution concentrated in a field that is directly related to the work of this position, such as archival science or history, that involved the collection, appraisal, analysis, or synthesis of information having historical or archival values. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit all college transcripts that demonstrate the requirements with your application.

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• COMBINATION EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. Only graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. For example, an applicant with 6 months of appropriate experience equivalent to GS-9 (50 percent of the experience requirement for GS-11) and 45 semester hours of appropriate graduate education (50 percent of the education requirement for GS-11, in excess of that required for GS-9) would be qualified for a GS-11 position. You must submit a copy of all your transcripts and include hours per week and months per year worked in your resume.

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.

Responsibilities:

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.

This position serves as an Archivist for the five Western Pennsylvania National Parks: ALPO, FLNI, FONE, FRHI, JOFL. Provides professional and technical directions for the park archives in the museum collection by surveying, accessioning, and cataloging the Resource Management Records (RMRs) for all five parks to NPS and professional standards and producing a finding aid for these records.

Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Managing 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.
• Accessioning appropriate collections into the park museum collection, using an automated collections management system.
• Evaluating all records, archival and manuscript collections with the records management guideline.
• Creating, editing, and indexing folder lists, box/container lists, and updating/editing and indexing the collection-level survey description.
• Develops and maintains liaisons and effective working relations with related groups.

Salary : $69,107 - $89,835