ARCHAEOLOGIST

US Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND invites applications for the position of Archaeological Collection Registrar in the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Collection Management Division.

The role requires specialized experience at the GS-09 level or equivalent in managing federally-administered artifact collections, including inventory, cataloguing, documentation, and environmental control, with compliance to applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience demonstrating expert-level knowledge of policies, curation standards, and day-to-day operations pertaining to independent management of federally-administered artifacts collections; artifact inventory, cataloguing, documentation, digital and physical recordkeeping, environmental control monitoring, and compliance with laws/regulations.
• Ability to prepare and execute artifact loan agreements independently: tracking loans, communicating with borrowing institutions, and ensuring compliance with professional standards.
• Ability to prepare complex correspondence addressed to international governments, federal/state agencies, private sector, academia, and public.

Job description

You will serve as a the Archaeological Collection Registrar in the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Collection Management Division (CMD) of the NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND. In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Applying expert-level knowledge of policies, procedures, curation standards, and day-to-day operations pertaining to the independent management of federally-administered artifacts collections; artifact inventory, cataloguing, documentation, digital and physical recordkeeping, handling, environmental control monitoring, and maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations; 2) Preparing and executing artifact loan agreements independently: tracking loan agreements, corresponding with borrowing institutions to address issues pertaining to loans, and ensuring compliance with professional standards and regulations; and 3) Preparing complex correspondence addressed to international governments, foreign governments, federal agencies, state agencies, the private sector, interest groups, academia, and members of the public.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualificat…