Clarification from the agency

Open to current and former Federal employees with permanent status or reinstatement eligibility. Individuals who are eligible for a special appointing authority may also apply. This includes Schedule A, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps Vista, military spouses, Veterans (VRA, VEOA, 30% disabled). This announcement is also open to U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals who may apply through Job Announcement #22R-MA-306675-DEU-NMAI. More than one selection may be made from this announcement.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Executes social media strategy through competitive research, social analytics, platform determination, benchmarking, and audience identification to insure consistency and quality of content across all social media platforms.
• Manages social media sites, plans and executes ongoing and onetime social media campaigns, and plays a major role in engaging and educating online and live audiences. The incumbent researches, writes, curates content, and posts text, photographs/images, videos, links, curricula, resources, and other data.
• Plans and conducts ongoing online and live sessions via or about social media with a goal to educate internal and external audiences about content and how to use social media.
• Supports ongoing online and live sessions about identity, race and social justice. The incumbent offers programming to engage audiences prior to and during museum programmatic activities.

Conditions of employment

• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.
• Pre- and post-appointment background investigation
• May be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Maintain a Bank Account for Direct Deposit/Electronic Transfer

Conditions of Employment

COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS:

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

For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions on OPM website.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation. Applicants who have the 1 year of appropriate specialized experience, are not required to have general experience, education above the high school level, or any additional specialized experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements.

For this position, specialized experience is defined as:

GS-11:  Utilizing multiple social media platforms and applications to update and monitor social media content for a museum, educational or cultural institution with a focus on Native American History or Culture; participating in the development of social media plans and strategies; and gathering information for assessing the effectiveness of social media efforts; 

OR; 

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; 

OR; 

3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; 

OR; 

LL.M., if related;

OR;

Equivalent combinations of education and experience.  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.

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.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application will be evaluated first for the basic qualifications described above. The applications that meet the basic qualifications will be evaluated further against the following criteria:

1. Skill in analyzing and monitoring social media statistics and information in order to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization's social media outreach strategy.
2. Ability to manage an organization's social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
3. Ability to plan, implement and analyze an organization's social media campaigns to identify, build and educate audiences and develop relationships.
4. Knowledge of Native American and Indigenous history and culture of the Western Hemisphere to research, plan and support online and live programming about identity, race and social justice.

Important Note: Your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses to the occupational questionnaire or other assessment tool for consistency. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience.

Your resume should provide detailed information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed.