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This position is located in the Digital Programs Office at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The primary purpose is to support the use of digital collections systems and processes across departments, in service of the museum’s goals in digitization, collections stewardship, and access. Join us in caring for an extraordinary national collection and sharing it with people in exciting new ways.
Learn more about this agency08/10/2022 to 08/24/2022
$61,947 - $80,532 per year
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
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Permanent - Federal
Full-time - Full-Time, Permanent
Competitive
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22R-JS-307637-MPA-NMAH
668393000
Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.
Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.
This Merit Promotion position is open to Current Federal Employees and Former Federal Employees with permanent status or reinstatement eligibility. Individuals who are eligible for a special appointing authority may also apply such as Individuals with Disabilities (Schedule A), former Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, and Vista volunteers; certain Military Spouses, or individuals eligible under various programs for Veterans (VRA, VEOA, 30% disabled).
The duties of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Supports the museum’s digital collections systems and their integration into all collections-related processes to assist in the documentation and stewardship of the museum’s collections.
-Develops trainings and related materials to help NMAH staff, interns, volunteers, and contractors use museum digital collections systems and processes.
-Provides help desk support for museum departments, including addressing questions, resolving issues, and initiating specialized or advanced tasks related to digital collections.
-Assists in developing and applying digital asset and data modelling professional standards and best practices to ensure the effective discovery, use, and long-term stewardship of museum collections data.
Conditions of Employment
COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS:
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Qualification requirements, including one year time-in-grade at the next lower grade level for promotion candidates, 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 viewable on OPM Website.
Specialized Experience: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal service or comparable pay band system related to the work of this position. Specialized experience is defined as: using digital collections systems, such as collections information systems and digital asset management systems, to manipulate and migrate collections data in support of collections management processes in a museum, archive or cultural institution; developing processes and training staff in the use of digital collections systems; and providing help desk support to staff to address questions and resolve issues with collections information or media.
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Education: completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, if related to the position. Related degrees may include Library and Information Science, Archival Studies, and Museum Studies, and Digital Humanities, provided they are supported by coursework in digital content management (for example digital archives, digital preservation, digital curation, digital asset management, museum informatics, or data management).
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A combination of graduate level education and specialized experience as described above.
Please see the qualifications section above for information on education substitution.
Incentives may be authorized on a case-by-case basis and is contingent upon management and OHR approval. Those incentives include the following:
Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA): If you are applying for a VEOA appointment, you must be a veteran and must be honorably separated and either a preference eligible or have substantially completed 3 or more years of active service. ("Active Service" under this law means active duty in a uniformed service and includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, full-time National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the active service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned.) A veteran who is released under honorable conditions shortly before completing a 3-year tour is also eligible.
Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities: The following links contain information on the eligibility requirements to be considered under a noncompetitive appointing authority:
This position is being concurrently announced under Delegated Examining Announcement Number 22R-JC-307636-DEU-NMAH. This announcement is open to all qualified candidates. Applying to both announcements may expand the possibilities of consideration since different referral criteria apply to each type of announcement. See the above announcement for more information.
Flexible Spending Accounts - https://www.fsafeds.com/
Health Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp
Leave - http://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/index.asp
Life Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/life/index.asp
Long Term Care Insurance - http://www.ltcfeds.com
Retirement Program - https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/
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:
-Knowledge of digital collections applications, (such as Axiell Mimsy XG, Crystal Reports, Open Refine), and/or query languages sufficient to administer and/or monitor the program requirements.
-Skill in working with client-server, or relational databases, sufficient to manage data collation and preparations.
-Knowledge of client-server, object-oriented and relational databases and applications, web development applications, or web-database applications sufficient to analyze, interpret, and translate user needs into systems requirements.
-Skill in customer service support sufficient to assist and support user and/or business requirements.
-Knowledge of data management and standardization concepts, principles, and methods.
-Knowledge of current digital media formats and encoding standards, digital imaging technologies, or digital asset management systems sufficient to assist NMAH digitization efforts.
BASIS OF RATING: Once the announcement closes, your application will be automatically evaluated and rated by the system and a Human Resources Specialist. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your application and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. The score is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of this position. If, after the Human Resources Specialist reviews your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that the score you have received is not a true reflection of your qualifications and/or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect the information you provided that support your abilities. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. Your resume should provide detailed information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed.
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.
Your application package should include the following documents:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
Click on the "Apply Online" button on the upper right side of the page. Please Note:
At the end of the application process you will be able to create and save a PDF file that contains your responses to the assessment questions. You may save this file as initial receipt of your application. After the job announcement closes, you will receive an email from the Smithsonian with confirmation of receipt. The Smithsonian receives many applications for each job. Each application is reviewed carefully which may take a few weeks. We will send you an e-mail to update you as we go through phases of the application review process. You may also check your application status by logging into www.usajobs.gov and selecting the tab "My USAJOBS;" e-mailing vacancy.info@si.edu; or by contacting the Office of Human Resources Representative listed. Additional Information:
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/668393000. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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