Clarification from the agency

This position is open to all U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals. Note: Federal employees with permanent status or individuals eligible for special appointing authorities may also apply to Job Announcement #26R-SC-313153-MPA-FM More than one selection may be made from this announcement.

The Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs leads and supervises the Museum's historical research, collections, and archives functions. The incumbent defines and serves as the leader of scholarly research efforts to reveal new discoveries about women's history in America and to share them with the public.

In this position, you will:

• Lead all historical research and interpretation for the Museum, develop and articulate the Museum's research agenda, illuminating the history of women in America. Ensure the Museum advances knowledge and make discoveries that will be of interest to the wide range of SI audiences.
• Ensure the intellectual products and public facing assets of the museum adhere to the highest level of scholarship, as well as remain of exceptional interest to the wide variety of American audiences.
• Supervise a staff including recruitment and selection, retention, employee development, performance management, awards, and disciplinary action. Assign work to department staff consistent with SI and Museum policies and supervise its final implementation.
• Be interviewed by specialist press and national media (print, radio, television, and web) to provide context and factual accuracy to historical topics related to women in America. Respond to letters of inquiry on historical topics from the public, researchers, and scholars.
• In collaboration with the Museum Director, the incumbent leads the Museum's work to design and develop a long term digital and physical collections strategy, identifying key themes and types of collections that are of most help in advancing discovery in women's history in America. Write and secure approval for the Museum's collections policy in accordance with SI guidelines.

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.

Conditions of Employment

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

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

Qualifications

Experience: You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Service.  For this position, specialized experience is defined as activities such as managing the curatorial functions of a history museum or similar cultural entity; overseeing research, exhibitions, collections development and public service; formulating goals and priorities and ensuring they are achieved; evaluating staff performance; performing scholarly research; determining acquisitions and deaccessions; overseeing curators, guest curators, and others in developing and implementing museum exhibitions, publications, and related programs.

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.

Or a Combination: Education and experience may be combined to meet the basic qualifications. 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.

How you will be evaluated

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

Applicants for this position may be evaluated in multiple stages. The first stage is an evaluation of your responses to the online multiple-choice questions that assess your experience, education, and/or training for the job related competencies below:

• Ability to manage and oversee the Curatorial Department of history museum (or similar cultural entity) including developing a long-term plan/vision that is tailored to meet current and future needs of the organization.
• Knowledge of the history of women in America.
• Ability to supervise a museum (or similar cultural entity) based curatorial staff.
• Ability to communicate orally with all levels of staff inside and outside an organization including management, staff, subordinates, collectors, donors, and comparable positions within other museums.
• Ability to communicate in writing including preparing written materials for management, staff, exhibitions, collections, loans, and publications.

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:

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 sufficient information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed.