• Manages all activities associated with archival processing according to national standards and best practices, including integrating processing activities/workflows with large-scale digitization workflows.
• Contributes to reporting on outcomes for grants and ensures that all processing deadlines associated with grants are met.
• Supervises permanent and temporary processing archivists, archives specialists, and contractors, performing administrative and human resources management functions related to the staff supervised.
• Oversees the production and quality of all electronic finding aids, ensuring that the Archives’ finding aids adhere to all national standards and best practices for content and electronic format, including DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) and EAD (Encoded Archival Description).
• Provides technical advice and assists senior management and development staff to develop work plans for funding proposals.

Conditions of employment

• Pass Pre-employment Background Investigation
• May need to complete a Probationary Period
• Maintain a Bank Account for Direct Deposit/Electronic Transfer
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.
• May be required to serve an 18-month probationary period for supervisors.

Qualification requirements must be met within 30 days of the job announcement closing date.

SPECIAL NOTE:

• Unofficial school transcripts (undergraduate and graduate) must be submitted with your application package by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
• If you have foreign education, you must show proof by the closing date of the vacancy announcement that education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials. Transcripts and proof of the evaluations must be submitted within your application package as indicated under “Required Documents”. Applicants may use the following websites http://www.naces.org/, http://www.fceatlanta.com/, to obtain these evaluations.

Qualifications

You must meet these Basic Education
Requirements:

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.

or

B.Combination of education and experience - at least 30 semester hours that included courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In addition to Basic Requirements above, you must have following:

Experience: You qualify for this position if you possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal Service or comparable pay band system. For this position Specialized experience is defined as experience working as the head of an archival technical services or collections processing unit, or processing team leader in a major special collections archival repository, or similar institution; and demonstrating responsibility for overseeing all archival processing activities to include preservation, arrangement, and description in the form of electronic finding aids in accordance with current national archival standards and best practices.

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.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: If 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.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Your resume will be used to evaluate your experience, education, and/or training that address the competencies below:

• Skill in performing and managing archival processing activities of a wide variety of archival materials, including documents, preliminary type artwork (sketches, sketchbooks, artwork documentation), photographic materials, sound and video recordings, and born digital formats according to national archival standards and best practices.
• Ability to set performance expectations, supervise and formally evaluate within an established institutional performance management system a large and diverse staff of professional, paraprofessional, and technical archivists, archives specialists, archives technicians, and contract archivists.
• Skill in maintaining and working with automated systems and databases, such as ArchivesSpace and/or Archivists’ Toolkit, for the creation of standards-based electronic finding aids including EAD, MARC, and DACS as well as emerging standards, such as EAC-CPF, while applying national standards and best practices.
• Ability to plan and implement large and complex archival processing projects, working across departments, including identifying resources needed and determining project goals, milestones, and outcomes; and meeting deadlines, often in support of enhanced digital access.

Applicants who meet or exceed minimum qualifications will be assigned to one of three category groups based on job-related criteria: Best Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and excels in most of the job related competencies above. Better Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and satisfies most of the job related competencies above. Good Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements, but does not satisfy most of the job related competencies above to a substantive degree. This category rating process does not add veterans' preference points or apply the "rule of three", but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category. A selecting official may make selections from the highest quality category (Best Category) provided no preference eligible in that category is passed over to select a non-preference eligible in that category unless the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 3317(b) or 3318(b) are satisfied. Preference eligibles who meet minimum qualification requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent must be listed in the highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-9 grade level or higher. Applicants who have not submitted a resume in the USAjobs system and/or have not answered all of the vacancy questions will not be considered for this position. Important Note: The review of your resume will determine your final rating and should provide sufficient information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed.

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