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Director Museum and Library Staff
Offices, Boards and Divisions · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Libraries provide legal and general reference, research, acquisitions, cataloging, digitization, and access to extensive print and electronic resources supporting the Department's Offices, Boards, and Divisions. The Main Library in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building maintains broad congressional, legal, and general research collections, while branch libraries support DOJ litigating Divisions and maintain specialized collections.
What You'll Do
- →This position is located at the U.S.
- →Department of Justice Headquarters in Washington D.C.
- →The Director, Museum and Library Staff, serves as the Department of Justice's senior executive responsible for the strategic leadership, policy direction, modernization, and stewardship of the DOJ Library System and DOJ Museum.
- →The Director provides executive leadership through the Assistant Director for Library Services and Assistant Director for Museum Management, who manage the day-to-day professional, technical, and operational activities of their respective programs.
- →Directing and integrating two distinct professional programs through subordinate Assistant Directors for Library Services and Museum Management, delegating day-to-day operational and technical responsibilities while retaining executive accountability for organizational performance, program effectiveness, resource stewardship, and accomplishment of Department-wide mission objectives.
- →Leading the DOJ Museum and institutional heritage program, directing the identification, acquisition, documentation, preservation, conservation, interpretation, exhibition, and appropriate disposition of historically significant artifacts, records, images, and other collections, and ensuring that DOJ's history and institutional legacy are accurately preserved and effectively communicated.
Requirements
- ✓Conditions of Employment: You must be a United States Citizen or National.
- ✓Veterans' preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service.
- ✓Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st, 1959.
- ✓Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file.
- ✓You will be required to complete a pre-employment security investigation and background check for the security level designated for this position.
- ✓You will be required to undergo a drug screening and obtain favorable results prior to being appointed.
- ✓You may be subject to a one-year probationary period effective from the date in which you are appointed.
- ✓This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) upon entry, and annually thereafter in accordance with DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines.
- ✓You must meet all minimum qualifications to be deemed eligible.
- ✓Only experience obtained by closing date of this announcement will be considered.
- ✓As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications.
- ✓Applicants must meet the applicable professional qualification requirements for the GS-1410 Librarian Series, including professional education in library science or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- ✓An MLS/MLIS or equivalent graduate degree is generally expected for professional librarians; however, the GS-1410 standard does not establish a separate degree requirement for SES positions.
- ✓The successful candidate will demonstrate the senior executive leadership, managerial, and administrative capabilities necessary to direct a complex library and museum enterprise and accomplish mission objectives.
Personality Fit
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