Summary This position is located in the Digital Innovation Division, Digital Strategy Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer. The position description number for this position is 359034. 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 non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. Responsibilities This position will serve on a multidisciplinary team to create cutting edge and creative digital experiences in collaboration with local communities across the country. These transformative digital experiences will combine emerging technologies, digital library materials, and themes relevant to local communities. As a technologist working closely with Library staff and partner communities, this person co-designs, develops, and implements innovative digital interactive experiences that will be hosted in physical locations around the country. As a technical expert, expands the agency's use of its digital collections by expanding on the use of current digital technologies and identifying emerging digital technologies and methods for use in museums, libraries, digital humanities, and digital scholarship. The employee interprets and revises existing policy for use by others within or outside the organization on projects related to digital scholarship. Builds relationships, gathers input, and responds to engagement from a range of user communities, colleagues, vendors, and peers. Develops understanding of user and community needs and designs approaches in response to those needs, for example through workshops, user interviews, surveys, and user testing. Plans and executes digital projects or programs targeting national reach. Identifies opportunities for feasible digital projects or programs to accomplish organizational mission, proposing concepts and technologies persuasively to management, peers, and external partners. Determines technical approach or institutional mechanisms for execution. Works with internal and external partners to collaboratively develop a digital project or program. Keeps stakeholders and management informed at all stages of the project or program. Analyzes the results of the activity as it relates to short and long-term goals. Identifies resources to inspire Library of Congress patrons to consult and use its resources to fulfill their personal goals and aspirations and for lifelong learning. Sustains and enhances the Library of Congress's longstanding strengths in digital collections, metadata expertise and long­ term stewardship by merging them with research in the digital humanities and digitally­ enhanced learning. Identifies and recommends services to address changing practices in digital experience design and development. Through partnerships and collaboration, facilitates the development of innovative tools and experiences for individuals and communities. Evaluates tools and technologies to identify their potential uses in digital humanities and digital scholarship. Ensures analytics strategies are consistent with user privacy, open source and open data. Maintain an awareness of and develops relationships with industry leaders and talented individuals in the areas of digital humanities, digital librarianship, museum studies, digital experience design, data visualization, data management, computer science and other forms of digital technology. Engages in national and international initiatives or other professional activities to promote the development of a shared digital humanities and digital scholarship infrastructure. Identifies technological patterns, trends and needs and makes recommendations to senior management regarding strategies and courses of action. Provides guidance to management regarding manipulating complex information. Provides advice regarding institutional-level digital preservation and access, digitization, rights issues in data preservation and access, metadata issues, major digital access initiatives, APls, data hosting and sharing technology. Conducts comprehensive evaluations of digital tools and digital experiences to ensure their stated goals, and identifies areas where efficiency and impacts can be improved. Recommends actions needed to maintain or improve the quality and quantity of operational services. Analyses, evaluations, and recommendations developed by the incumbent are reviewed by management only for potential influence on broad agency policy objectives and program goals. Findings and recommendations are normally accepted without significant change. Using a comprehensive knowledge of agency program goals objectives, along with precedents applicable to the administration of a program, independently determines program objectives, strategies and deliverables, gathers resources and facilitates brainstorming sessions with subject matter experts. Facilitates high-level Library of Congress meetings, both externally with outside entities and internally among library divisions. Prepares conferences and briefings, organizes background materials and conducts research. Stages thematic events and conferences. Requirements Conditions of Employment Conditions of Employment Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana. The Library is part of the Federal Government and abides by federal law, so regardless of individual state or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment at the Library. In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment. Qualifications Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. Knowledge of current and emerging technologies and methods for use in museums, librarians, digital humanities, and digital scholarship.** Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively by gathering and responding to input from users and other audiences.** Ability to plan, develop, and launch digital projects with national reach. Ability to write technical documentation. Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing. Education Additional Information Although it is the Library's policy to afford the maximum pay benefit to employees when setting rates of pay, a new appointee who has had no previous Federal service will generally be paid at step one of the grade. The Library of Congress is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants must submit a complete application package that is received by the closing date of this announcement. Appointment/retention is subject to a favorable evaluation of an appropriate personnel security/suitability investigation. For more information, please see: Vetting Process This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email ADA@loc.gov. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Applicants with disabilities may be considered under special hiring procedures and must submit an appropriate certificate of eligibility when applying for this position. The proof or disability/certification may be issued by the State Vocational Rehabilitation Office, Disability Services or Career Services office of the applicant’s college or university, or the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter must verify that the applicant has a severe disability and must be dated within three years of the date of the application. Certification from health care providers are not accepted. For more information contact the Library's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity at 202-707-6024 or email spp@loc.gov. FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR CERTIFICATION WILL CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION TO NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE SELECTIVE PLACEMENT PROGRAM. The Library of Congress is the national library of the United States and is part of the Legislative Branch of the Federal government. As such, all positions are in the excepted service. The Library reserves the right to fill a lesser or greater number of vacancies indicated during the life of this vacancy announcement. Initial permanent appointments to the Library of Congress require completion of a one-year probationary period. Probationary periods served at other Federal agencies do not count toward this requirement. The Library of Congress may offer repayment for all or part of federally insured student loans. However, not all service units within the Library of Congress participates in the repayment of federally insured student loans. Therefore, determination to repay a federally insured student loan is subject to approval by the appropriate service unit. A “Not to Exceed" (NTE) status is used to identify an appointment with a specific ending date. However, the Library has the right to separate a NTE employee at any time due to either performance issues or budget constraints. Are you a veteran? 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