Positions at NARA

Conservators
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

The National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD,
is seeking to fill the following positions. See
<URL:http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/>:

Vacancy Announcement CP 06-030 for the position of Conservator,
GS-1001-13 in Office of Records Services, Preservation Programs,
Document Conservation Laboratory (NWTD) has been posted on the
USAJOBS website.  The announcement opens 04-12-06; closes 05-10-06.

The incumbent will serve as a team leader or staff technical expert
responsible for planning and providing ad hoc and recurring
preservation and conservation activities for the office and for the
agency, including analyzing, reviewing, and making recommendations
to office management regarding NARA preservation and conservation
policy, programs, and procedures in areas that have office-wide,
agency-wide and government-wide professional impacts.

Vacancy Announcement CP 06-034 for the position of Conservator,
GS-1001-12 in Office of Records Services, Preservation Programs,
Document Conservation Laboratory (NWTD) has been posted on the
USAJOBS website.  The announcement opens 04-12-06; closes 05-10-06.

The incumbent will have responsibility for performing a full range
of work concerned with conservation and preservation of photographs
and related materials including conservation treatment and related
research, procedures, methods and techniques for a wide variety of
photographic processes, with special attention to those items
possessing the highest level of historical and intrinsic value. The
incumbent will also work proficiently in at least one other of the
following conservation disciplines: paper documents, bound volumes,
objects, metals, textiles, or paintings.

Vacancy Announcement CP 06-035 for the position of Conservator,
GS-1001-11 in Office of Records Services, Preservation Programs,
Document Conservation Laboratory (NWTD) has been posted on the
USAJOBS website.  The announcement opens 04-13-06; closes 05-11-06.

Incumbents will carry out accepted conservation treatment procedures
and perform highly complex and delicate techniques on rare and
unique archival records.   Work relates to the conservation and
preservation of valuable manuscripts, books and bound archival
records, with the goal of maintaining historic and artistic value.
Incumbents prepare  written proposals for treatment, including
selection of treatment procedures, methods and techniques, and
materials to be used, based on experience and practical research.
Two positions will be filled.

For further information regarding these positions, contact

    Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler
    Chief, Document Conservation Laboratory
    301-837-2906
    marylynn.ritzenthaler [at] nara__gov

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