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Archivist
National Archives and Records Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration, Archival Operations. Incumbent will carry out complex professional assignments involving: accessioning and processing records; protecting records and ensuring their proper storage, handling, preservation, and reproduction; interpreting and applying of restrictions on records; creating record descriptions and finding aids; and responding to a broad variety of reference requests (written and orally).
What You'll Do
- →The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12.
- →If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
- →As an Archivist Plan and coordinate activities leading to the identification of records eligible for transfer to the National Archives and Records Administration.
- →Review records and apply appropriate restrictions in compliance with EO 13526 and the Freedom of Information Act.
- →Determine appropriate levels for the establishment of intellectual control and identify controlling methods that assist users in recognizing relationships among records.
- →Develop and deliver responses (orally and in writing) to reference requests that draw upon a broad knowledge of records, involve multiple sources of information, employ innovative research techniques, or require interpretation of complex rules or procedures.
- →Assess the condition of transferred records and determine the extent to which records are at risk.
Requirements
- ✓The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service.
- ✓One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.
- ✓To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.
- ✓A probationary or trial period may be required.
- ✓Continued employment is contingent upon supervisory certification that continued employment will benefit the Federal Service; the certification will occur no less than 30 days before the end of the probationary/trial period.
- ✓Must successfully complete a background investigation.
- ✓Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
- ✓If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
- ✓Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form i-9.
- ✓Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S.
- ✓Designated and/or Random Drug Testing may be required.
- ✓The work is mostly sedentary, however the incumbent must be physically able to perform the duties of this position.
- ✓Physical demands may include climbing caster-equipped ladders, maneuvering on catwalks, moving heavy carts of records, and handling boxes of records stored up to 15 feet above the floor and typically weighing 50 pounds, occasionally more.
- ✓The work may also demand considerable periods of maintaining a stationary position, moving, or otherwise positioning oneself to access objects, equipment, or records located in high and low places.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3985c612-d6cf-4725-a3b7-aad0f6119848
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