Total 33 job vacancies by National Archives and Records Administration

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-06. 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 a Visitor Services Assistant, you will:

• Serve as primary point of contact and greeter for entering museum visitors. Make on the spot decisions and judgments and contact the Visitor Services Manager for all issues that need further deliberation.
• Receive and respond to ticket and tour reservation requests and input requests into a ticket reservation software, to include resolving conventional ticketing problems and operating other office equipment to serve the public, input data and otherwise provide customer service.
• Provide and facilitate tours of the museum and gallery exhibits, as needed.
• Perform opening and closing duties independently: prepare the Museum and public areas for opening, turn exhibits on at opening and off at closing, check spaces for cleanliness, place signage in correct locations, issue entrance receipts and tickets in accordance with established guidelines, assist security in sweeping the Museum at the end of the day for closing.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-06. 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 a Visitor Services Assistant, you will:

• Serve as primary point of contact and greeter for entering museum visitors. Make on the spot decisions and judgments and contact the Visitor Services Manager for all issues that need further deliberation.
• Receive and respond to ticket and tour reservation requests and input requests into a ticket reservation software, to include resolving conventional ticketing problems and operating other office equipment to serve the public, input data and otherwise provide customer service.
• Provide and facilitate tours of the museum and gallery exhibits, as needed.
• Perform opening and closing duties independently: prepare the Museum and public areas for opening, turn exhibits on at opening and off at closing, check spaces for cleanliness, place signage in correct locations, issue entrance receipts and tickets in accordance with established guidelines, assist security in sweeping the Museum at the end of the day for closing.

As a SUPERVISORY ARCHIVES SPECIALIST, you will:

• Supervise a subordinate staff consisting of archives technicians GS-4 through GS-7. Is responsible for the quality and quantity of work produced by these employees directly under their supervision. Either personally or as delegated to other RCP employees, assure that the subordinate staff duties are accomplished.
• Conduct staff meetings to convey and discuss suggestions, changes and new policies or procedures, which affect unit operations. Provide information generated by these meetings to higher level management.
• Responsible for daily workload assignments to assign, process, and review. This is prescribed to subordinate technicians who ensure accomplishment of work according to these guidelines.

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 a Supervisory Digital Imaging Specialist, you will:

• Provide leadership and support for a staff with various areas and levels of expertise and responsibility to provide efficient and effective imaging services to meet the goals of NARA.
• Supervise staff with digital imaging, archive, photography, and metadata/quality assurance expertise from technician through journeyman levels.
• Provide technical support for digital imaging projects including hardware, software, and equipment selections, work processes and work process development or refinement, image capture, formatting, metadata extractions, forms identification, output formats and quality control.
• Monitor and evaluate image/metadata/quality control/quality assurance on products produced and services performed by the Library Digitization Team.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. 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 a Management Assistant, you will:

• Develop and implement new systems or administrative processes to ensure effective, timely accomplishment of duties throughout the organization. Determine effectiveness of administrative processes and uses considerable judgment in correcting inefficiencies.
• Prepare charts, graphs, or narrative summaries for management or program analysis reports from material provided by higher-level employees.
• Suggest changes to operations or improvements within existing policies. Identify and refer serious problems or questions, requiring detailed analysis or extensive database modification, to the AO/FSS or appropriate management official.
• Assist AO/FSS in developing financial plans, budget estimates, narrative and statistical reports and other reports requested by national and regional management staff.
• Assist AO/FSS in performing budget administration functions. Ensure accuracy of a variety of automated reports: NAR Daily Transactions; NAR Status of Funds, NAR Open Obligation Line History; Ensure all accounts in each budget activity are properly charged, reviews budget and accounting reports to ensure accuracy, performs data entry, etc.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-11. 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 Archives Specialist, you will:

• Participate in the review of records proposed for transfer to NARA, which includes assessments of records schedules to ensure that records are correctly scheduled and eligible for transfer
• Carry out a wide range of actions required for processing archival records according to NARA policies, procedures, and standards.
• Examine and analyze existing documentation and pertinent agency schedules to make recommendations.
• Arrange and coordinate the transfer or disposal of materials as necessary.
• Conduct asset audits, provide technical management of our Holding Management System, and create and update the holdings' Description and Authority Services (DAS) records.

As a Secretary, you will:

• Provide a wide variety of administrative services, technical and clerical duties in support of the programs in the Office of Innovation
• Maintain control records on incoming correspondence and action documents and follow up on work in progress to ensure timely action.
• Review outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy, adherence to general policy, and call any questions or inadequacies to the attention of the writer.
• Arrange meetings, interviews, etc., including securing the meeting space, coordinating the meeting time with attendees, and assembling and distributing meeting materials.
• Maintain records for time and attendance for the staff, including leave and credit time, and process time sheets for each pay period.

As a Secretary, you will:

• Provide a wide variety of administrative services, technical and clerical duties in support of the programs in the Office of Innovation
• Maintain control records on incoming correspondence and action documents and follow up on work in progress to ensure timely action.
• Review outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy, adherence to general policy, and call any questions or inadequacies to the attention of the writer.
• Arrange meetings, interviews, etc., including securing the meeting space, coordinating the meeting time with attendees, and assembling and distributing meeting materials.
• Maintain records for time and attendance for the staff, including leave and credit time, and process time sheets for each pay period.

As a PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFICER, you will:

• Plan, schedule, and conduct a variety of formal and informal public programs; promote and advertise these programs which includes special events; disseminates public information and manages public relations.
• Oversee staff training on customer service and ensure and sustain the highest level of customer service to all special event guests.
• Manage and direct programs that involve and are related to services provided for clients and event guests to the Library special event program.
• Manage activities related to, and services provided for, visitors to the Library's museum/exhibit program and for visitors for educational and public programs.
• Coordinate all Library activities that promote or describe the Library's operations and services through paid or pro-bono advertising, through media relations, through the website, and through relations with community organizations.

As a PUBLIC PROGRAMS OFFICER, you will:

• Plan, schedule, and conduct a variety of formal and informal public programs; promote and advertise these programs which includes special events; disseminates public information and manages public relations.
• Oversee staff training on customer service and ensure and sustain the highest level of customer service to all special event guests.
• Manage and direct programs that involve and are related to services provided for clients and event guests to the Library special event program.
• Manage activities related to, and services provided for, visitors to the Library's museum/exhibit program and for visitors for educational and public programs.
• Coordinate all Library activities that promote or describe the Library's operations and services through paid or pro-bono advertising, through media relations, through the website, and through relations with community organizations.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. 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 Archives Technician, you will:

• Provide written or oral "first-line" reference assistance and consultation, respond to all forms of inquiry concerning NARA's archival holdings, in original or surrogate format, by using complex finding aid systems and related archival sources, in both electronic and analog formats.
• Perform detailed and complex arrangement work following a plan (or guidance) approved by supervisor or team leader.
• Independently evaluate the physical condition of records in the course of other duties and alerts supervisor or other designated staff to condition problems that limit access or threaten the safety of records.
• Prepare online catalog descriptions of holdings at all levels according to NARA lifecycle standards, policies, and procedures.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. 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 Archives Technician, you will:

• Provide written or oral "first-line" reference assistance and consultation, respond to all forms of inquiry concerning NARA's archival holdings, in original or surrogate format, by using complex finding aid systems and related archival sources, in both electronic and analog formats.
• Perform detailed and complex arrangement work following a plan (or guidance) approved by supervisor or team leader.
• Independently evaluate the physical condition of records in the course of other duties and alerts supervisor or other designated staff to condition problems that limit access or threaten the safety of records.
• Prepare online catalog descriptions of holdings at all levels according to NARA lifecycle standards, policies, and procedures.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-7. 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 a Museum Technician (History), you will:

• Ensure inventory information is accurate in the collections management system and manage physical conditions of the collection.
• Use digital camera(s) and/or scanner(s), creates clear, appropriate digital images for a wide variety of artifacts and collection records following standard museum and NARA guidelines.
• Complete assigned tasks related to exhibit research, object selection, and text editing and formatting, as needed.
• Gather data for reporting and develop and create content for social media platforms.
• Apply agency-wide and site-specific methods and standards for accessioning and cataloging, including numbering, description, object labeling, and other associated tasks for museum holdings.

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, you will:

• Apply preservation techniques and recommend strategies for textual records, electronic records, and audiovisual materials.
• Work independently in identifying, arranging and reviewing both non-classified and national security classified presidential records in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Review presidential records in accordance with the statutory requirements of the PRA, apply appropriate PRA and FOIA exemptions, and make redactions, as necessary.
• Independently provide reference service in response to regular and complex e-mail, phone, and written requests for information regarding the Library's textual, electronic, and non-textual holdings.
• Assess researcher and archival needs and determine priorities for developing finding aids for records processed systematically and records processed in response to FOIA requests.

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, you will:

• Apply preservation techniques and recommend strategies for textual records, electronic records, and audiovisual materials.
• Work independently in identifying, arranging and reviewing both non-classified and national security classified presidential records in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Review presidential records in accordance with the statutory requirements of the PRA, apply appropriate PRA and FOIA exemptions, and make redactions, as necessary.
• Independently provide reference service in response to regular and complex e-mail, phone, and written requests for information regarding the Library's textual, electronic, and non-textual holdings.
• Assess researcher and archival needs and determine priorities for developing finding aids for records processed systematically and records processed in response to FOIA requests.