Position: Supervisory Librarian
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $132,368 – $172,075

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary

This position is located in the Hebraic Unit, African and Middle East Division, General and International Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collections Services.
The position description number for this position is 012792.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule.
This is a supervisory, non-bargaining unit position.

Duties

The African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress seeks a dynamic, innovative thought leader to direct its Jewish/Hebraic Studies department. The successful applicant will play a vital role in stewarding the collection and shaping acquisition, outreach, and research priorities. The successful applicant will manage and grow section staff to include high-level subject matter experts, emerging professionals, and technicians. S/he/they will aid in developing a successor generation of Jewish Studies librarians through the appointment of residents, fellows, and interns. The successful applicant will pursue philanthropic support, serve as an ambassador for the collection, and position the Hebraic Section to achieve even greater reach and impact as a preeminent research center for Jewish life and culture.

Supervises the work of the Section’s staff. Plans the work of the Section, including formulating goals and objectives and identifying opportunities for improvements in methods and procedures. Supervises and participates in the preparation of reports, translations, bibliographies, exhibits, web pages and other information products of the Section. Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff which are clearly communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Observes workers’ performance; demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques. Provides informal feedback and periodically evaluates employee performance. Resolves informal complaints and grievances. Develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary.

Plans, establishes, and directs a library reference program to provide information about the region. Oversees all reference services provided by the section’s staff. On assignment, supervises staffing of the division’s reading room and administers the policies and regulations concerning security and access to the collections. Collaborates with other Library staff and outside partners in developing and providing access to library resources through the web and by other means. Participates in the implementation and evaluation of reference and public service policies, procedures, and publications. Implements new reference services and techniques to improve and expand services. Meets with researchers and analyzes questions and requirements in depth and detail and suggests search strategies. Uses broad knowledge of multiple information sources, including experts both inside and outside the Library, to assist readers and to develop domestic and international resources for obtaining future information.

Makes significant recommendations to change, interpret, and develop important and/or innovative policies affecting the process and funding of acquisitions from and relating to the area of the section’s responsibility. Oversees staff making authoritative recommendations for the acquisition of materials in all languages, formats and subjects of relevance to the study of the region, including legal, audiovisual, and electronic items. Ensures the comprehensiveness and accessibility of collections within the scope of the section. Conducts a continuous survey of all relevant Library collections in all appropriate languages for the purpose of creating and maintaining the highest possible level of resources for the study of the region. Maintains relations with potential donors, government agencies, scholars, publishers and other sources for the purpose of bringing appropriate materials to the Library by purchase, gift, exchange or other means to enrich and diversify the collections. Evaluates offers of gifts for compatibility with library acquisition policies and recommends acceptance or rejection.

Plans and produces public programs, exhibits, seminars, and colloquia on the region, bringing attention to research developments and collections of interest to both scholars and the general public. Under the guidance of the Division Chief, may be responsible for cultivating relations with potential donors and securing funds for acquisitions, public programs, exhibits, and other activities related to the section’s geographic area.

Reviews and analyzes major issues in information research and dissemination as they apply to providing information about the region. Provides highly specialized research for the use of Congressional clients, the courts, national security agencies and other researchers inside and outside the Library. Prepares definitive and highly complex reports, responses to inquiries, and research products using knowledge as a recognized authority in field of expertise. Prepares the most technically complex responses to inquiries, utilizing an expert-level depth and breadth of subject area knowledge and position as recognized scholar, expert, author, or source of information on a given subject or subjects.

Position: Archivist
Location: National Archives and Records Administration
Salary: $64,957 – $122,459

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary

This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Serves as an Archivist in the Archival Operations Division within the Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries and Museum Services office. In compliance with NARA policies, standards, and procedures, the incumbent is responsible for planning, performing, and monitoring all archival functions for the textual, audiovisual, and electronic records of several Vice Presidential record collections.

Duties

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.

• Reviews records and applies appropriate restrictions in compliance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA), the Freedom of Information Act, and applicable executive orders.
• Recognizes the complexity associated with applicability of multiple restrictions and recommends appropriate steps to address such complexity.
• Recommends appropriate housing, storage, and handling for records transferred to the legal and/or physical custody of the National Archives and Records Administration, in accordance with NARA preservation policies and guidelines.
• Contributes significantly to the planning of a finding aids program that facilitates discovery and use of a complex body of records.
• Develops and delivers responses to non-routine reference requests that draw upon a broad knowledge of records, involve multiple sources of information, employ innovative research techniques, or require interpretation of complex rules or procedures.