This position located in Denali National Park and Preserve, in the Resources Division. This is a permanent, career-seasonal, career or career-conditional position in the competitive service. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately April to beginning of October, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

Duties

As a Historian at Denali you will: Prepare historic preservation documentation, compliance, and background materials as required by Section 106 and Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), NPS Management Policies, and cultural resources management guideline for all park undertakings. Recommend, plan for, and execute historical investigations required to meet NHPA, NPS guidelines, and the research needs of the park Conduct and transcribe oral history interviews. Serve as an advisor to the Cultural Resources Program Manager and Team Lead for Resources and Science on history and historic resources. Identify, evaluate, and monitor historic resources, identify potential threats, and make recommendations to management regarding status and mitigation of impacts (present and future). Develop and maintain liaisons and effective working relations with coworkers, related groups and individuals, agencies, and the public. Advise on interpretive products, programs, etc. that relate to history. Prepare educational and interpretive materials for public distribution such as history briefs, popular historical writeups, articles, booklets, or social media posts.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-04/11/2024-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. 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 at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: a degree in history; or related field that included at least 18 semester hours in history. You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- A 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. You must include a copy of your transcripts and hours worked per week on your resume. --AND-- In addition to the requirements listed above, you must also meet possess of the following qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: planning and conducting historical research (i.e. National Register of Historic Places, (NR) nominations, historic contexts, or reports); conducting site documentation fieldwork, or conducting oral history interviews. You must include hours per week worked in your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: at least 3 full years of progressively higher graduate level education or PhD or equivalent graduate degree related to the occupation r other closely related subjects pertinent to the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- A combination of education and experience as described above.To combine education and experience, first take your graduate education, divide your number of semester hours in excess of 36 semester hours by 18 or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. Then take the number of months of full time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week in your resume. Volunteer Experience: 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Denali National Park and Preserve P O Box 9 Denali Park, AK 99755 US
• Name: Carrie Shapbell
• Phone: (907) 644-3340
• Email: [email protected]