Skills
Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/22/2022-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.
If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess the one-year time-in-grade, as required by this announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade, such as a Within Grade Increase.
For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.
To qualify for this position, you must possess the Individual Occupation Requirements for at least one of the series below AND the Specialized Experience and/or Education Requirements for a GS-12 grade level.
INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GS-0401 SERIES:
Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must provide transcripts.
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A combination of education and experience, which includes courses equivalent to a major as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must provide transcripts.
INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MUSEUM CURATOR GS-1015 SERIES:
Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's degree in museum work; or in an applicable subject-matter field. You must provide transcripts.
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A combination of education and experience, which includes courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must provide transcripts.
INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ARCHEOLOGY GS-0193 SERIES:
Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's degree that included 3 semester hours each in the following course areas: History of archeology; archeology of a major geographical area such as North America or Africa; Regional archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development; Theory and methods of archeology (Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques); Archeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work.
AND 6 semester hours of related coursework in: geography, geology, or cultural geography; history, historiography, or historical archeology; environmental studies; scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or surveying;
AND archeological field school.
You must provide transcripts.
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Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements above (including archeological field school). You must provide transcripts.
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A combination of education and experience, which includes College-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education. You must provide transcripts.
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Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology. The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school. Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials. Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project.
INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR HISTORY GS-0170 SERIES:
Successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's degree in history, or related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history. You must provide transcripts.
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A combination of education and experience, which includes 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. You must provide transcripts. (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).
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SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION for GS-12:
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience MUST include at least three of the following: provide natural or cultural resource program support and professional advice in at least one of the occupational series listed above; conduct or participate in National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) or National Historic Preservation Act (106/NHPA) compliance review; plan or participate in the planning of natural or cultural resource projects or studies; coordinate and/or interact with Tribes on natural or cultural resource management activities or concerns; participate as a professional member of a research team; research, develop, and prepare manuscripts for professional publications; perform collections management, registration, cataloging, research, preservation, restoration, and/or conservation of collections.
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EDUCATION: Successful completion of a Ph. D. or equivalent doctoral degree. You must provide transcripts.
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Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include transcripts.
