Sr. Innovation Specialist Job in Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)

Vacancy No. VAR003036 Department Library of Congress
Salary $142,488.00 to $185,234.00 Grade 14 to 14
Perm/Temp Temporary FT/PT Full-time
Open Date 2/27/2025 Close Date 3/13/2025
Job Link Apply Online Who may apply Public
Locations:
Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)


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.

This job is open to

Clarification from the agency

Anyone may apply - By law, employment at most U.S. Government agencies, including the Library of Congress, is limited to U.S. citizens. However, non-citizens may be hired, provided that other legal requirements are met and the Library determines there are no qualified U.S. citizens available for the position.

Duties

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.

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?  Please indicate the type of veterans' preference you are claiming in your application materials and/or applicant profile and provide the appropriate supporting documentation to validate your claim.  Those applying for 5-point preference must submit Member Copy 4 of your DD 214.  Those applying for 10-point preference must fill out an SF-15 (click here for the form) and provide the required documentation listed on the back of the form.  If required supporting documentation is not attached, Veterans' Preference will not be considered in the application process.
 

Benefits

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

The Library of Congress evaluates applicants through an applicant questionnaire and a structured interview. Applicants may also be screened for some jobs through licensing, certification, and/or education requirements, a narrative/application review, and/or a preliminary telephone interview. The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are marked with a double asterisk (**) in the vacancy announcement and the applicant questionnaire are considered the most critical for a position. To be considered for final selection, applicants must demonstrate fully acceptable experience in these designated KSAs in the narrative/application review, preliminary telephone and/or full structured interview. The various assessment tools listed above are designed to verify or explore applicants' experience, knowledge, and training directly related to the job in order to identify the best qualified applicants for selection.


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Required Documents

Current or former federal employees must submit their most recent Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50 or equivalent).

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.  The program does not accept certification from health care providers. 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.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

How to Apply

Please carefully follow all instructions under the How to Apply tab to ensure you are considered for the position.

You are required to apply online for this announcement. We are unable to accept mailed or emailed documents. You must complete the entire application process, including submission of all documents BEFORE this announcement closes. To do so, complete the following steps.

Step 1: If you do not already have one, create a resume on USAJOBS. Although you must enter your Social Security Number for USAJOBS, this information will not be provided to the Library of Congress.

Step 2: Review the Job Announcement. We recommend you go to the end of the Qualification and Evaluation section of the job announcement to preview the online questions that you will answer in Step 4. You may wish to customize your USAJOBS resume to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions.

Step 3: Click on the "APPLY ONLINE" button to the right of this announcement. Follow USAJOBS' instructions to access your account and submit your resume. You will be redirected to the Hiring Management website to complete the application process. If this is your first time in Hiring Management, you will be asked to answer questions related to your eligibility for Federal employment. You will be able to update this information and save it to our account for future announcements.

Step 4: Once you have completed the eligibility questions, you will be taken directly to the vacancy application questions. Answer all questions honestly and thoroughly.

Step 5: Hiring Management offers three options that will electronically attach your documentation to your online application once you finish answering the questions in the job announcement.
(1) You may select a document that you have already uploaded to USAJOBS for a previous announcement.
(2) You may electronically upload a document directly from your computer to your application. Be certain to review your complete application for confirmation of the document uploaded and click on "Finished" to be returned to USAJOBS.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have multiple documents of the same kind, e.g. 2 undergraduate transcripts from different schools or 2 SF-50s, etc., be sure that they are all in the same file on your computer or in your USAJOBS profile before uploading them. If you try uploading them individually, only the last one sent will be visible in our system. If you have any questions about this information, please contact the person on this announcement BEFORE the closing date.

Step 6: Click on "Finish" after you have completed your application. Once you have submitted your application, you can check your status online through your Hiring Management or MY USAJOBS account. Your complete online application and any required supplemental documentation (e.g., SF-50, etc.) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing date of the announcement. It is your responsibility to ensure that all documents are received on time and that the materials are readable. Failure to do so will result in your application being excluded from consideration for this announcement.

If you are experiencing any technical difficulty with the online process, you MUST CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACT FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE. For all technical issues please contact jobhelp@loc.gov , no later than 4:30pm EST of the Closing Date. REQUESTS FOR EXTENSIONS WILL NOT BE GRANTED.

Agency contact information

Job Help Desk
Phone
202-707-5620
Fax
000-000-0000
Email
JobHelp@loc.gov
Address
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Human Resources Dept.
101 Independence Ave., SE
LM-107
Washington, District of Columbia 20540-2700
United States

Next steps

Please review our evaluation process under Evaluation. You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by logging onto the USAJOBS "My USAJOBS" tab and clicking on "My Applications." You will receive final notification via e-mail when the vacancy has been filled.


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