Job Summary

This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration, Research Services, Archival Operations. The incumbent carries out complex assignments involving delivery of reference service that demonstrates broad knowledge; accessioning and processing records; protecting records and ensuring their proper storage, handling, preservation, and reproduction; interpreting and applying of restrictions on records; and creating record descriptions and finding aids.

Job Description

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: Utilizing various systems or databases to locate, analyze, index, and manage archival records; AND Interpreting laws, policies, and/or regulations to perform archival task, such as; monitoring, pulling and refiling archival records, reference and research room work, arrangement and description, holdings maintenance and/or digitization of records; AND Providing customer service to various audiences through oral and written communication techniques. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. Education must be in a directly related field of study. OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-09, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: Performing basic archival tasks, such as verifying the completeness of a set of records or locating relevant records to answer customer requests; AND Providing customer service to various audiences through oral and written communication techniques. OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. Education must be in a directly related field of study. OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (i.e., beyond the first year) of graduate education is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement.