• Open & closing dates

     01/07/2021 to 01/21/2021

  • Service

    Competitive

  • Pay scale & grade

    GS 11

  • Salary

    $64,649 to $84,049 per year

  • Appointment type

    Permanent – Permanent Appointment.

  • Work schedule

    Full-Time – This is a FULL-TIME position.

Apply here: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/588795900

Duties

Summary

Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on his or her expertise as a Historian. Make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment.

Location – Yakima, Washington, 145 miles southeast of Seattle and 200 miles southwest of Spokane, the 17 square miles are located at the confluence of the Naches and Yakima Rivers. https://www.usbr.gov/pn/about/hr/area-information.html

Responsibilities

The primary duties of this position are:

  • Recommends historic property management requirements, identifies impacts, offers recommendations to avoid or minimize resource impacts while accomplishing the project purpose, and drafts written materials for associated reports.
  • Prepares the cultural resources sections of environmental documents including categorical exclusions, environmental assessments, and environmental impact statements.
  • Assists with field inventories and resource documentation, in the development of statements of work for cultural resource contracts, with the development and management of the Area Office heritage assets and historic properties databases, and in complying with Departmental museum property policies and reports.
  • Coordinates with Reclamation’s Archaeologist and Regional Office staff to develop materials to interpret Reclamation’s historic properties at assigned facilities and area locations.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

To be eligible, an applicant must meet the following:

  • U.S. Citizen or National
  • Suitability for Federal employment determined by background investigation
  • Submit a resume and supporting documentation – See How to Apply
  • Meet specialized experience requirements – See Qualifications
  • Submit transcripts, to verify education requirements
  • For veterans consideration, submit documents under Required Documents

Applicants must meet all qualification requirements, time-in-grade restrictions and any selective factors, by the closing date of the announcement 01/21/2021.

TIME IN GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Applicants eligible under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) are not required to meet time-in-grade restrictions in order to be considered.

Applicants may be required to serve an initial probationary period.

Qualifications

Basic Education Requirements:
A. Degree: history; or related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history
OR
B. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in history, or a major in a related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: Graduate study in the social sciences or humanities may also be credited when such study included training in historical research methodology; or the thesis approached the subject from an historical viewpoint and used professional historical research methodology and techniques in its preparation.

Substitution of Education/Specialized Experience Requirements:
In addition to the basic education requirement, in order to be rated as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine that the applicant meets the education and/or specialized experience requirement – this information must be clearly supported in the resume.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 in Federal service. Specialized experience at this level is defined as: providing cultural resource program support and professional advice on historic structures; participating as a professional member of an interdisciplinary team; providing technical assistance and serving as a subject matter expert in the conduct of historic preservation activities; planning or participate in the planning of cultural resource projects or studies; researching, developing, and preparing manuscripts for professional publications; or performing collections management, registration, cataloging, research, preservation, restoration, and conservation of collections **OR** 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree **OR** the combination of education and experience.

Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience may be used to meet total experience requirements. Only graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. (Education: more than two years of graduate education leading to a master’s degree or equivalent, but less than the required as described above).

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. Applicants will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

If selected, the selectee will be required to provide official college transcripts to verify educational qualifications. An official transcript must be sent directly from the University’s Registrar’s office and must be provided from the institution awarding the degree. Academic transcripts certified by notary publics are NOT official. Official transcripts must be submitted prior to reporting to work as a condition of employment. Failure to submit official transcripts may be grounds for dismissal or rescission of the job offer.

Education

This vacancy announcement allows substituting education for experience. Applicants must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not-qualified for the position.

This position has a mandatory education requirement. Applicants must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in being rated not-qualified for the position.

Accreditation: Only education from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education is acceptable to meet education requirements or to substitute for experience, if applicable. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management at https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/ and U.S. Department of Education websites at https://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html websites.

Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, applicants must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. For further information visit: https://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html