• Job Description

  Req#: 803375600
  About the Position: Gain Library and Information Science experience with the USACE Portland District, Mission Support Office. You will provide digital imaging support by transforming documents into digitally accessible formats used throughout USACE, its stakeholders, and members of the public through the USACE Digital Library. You will learn the full spectrum of the upload process. We are looking for a candidate who is detail-oriented and has creative problem-solving skills.
  
  Duties
  
  
  • Adding accessibility to digitized documents or other electronic material.
  • Using software applications which include, but are not limited to, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe PhotoShop, SharePoint, Word, Excel, etc., and other off-the-shelf word processing software and archival management tools.
  • Gathering, evaluating, and preparing professional, technical, scientific, and historical documents for digital imaging for a Digital Library.
  • Scanning, editing, and reformatting a variety of profession, technical and scientific documents using imaging software.
  • Identifying and tagging a variety of texts, images, and graphs to ensure Section 508 compliance.
  • Ensuring readability and quality of images, enhancing and/or reimaging material that is unclear or difficult to read.
  • Providing Library support as needed such as shelving and filing library materials to include periodicals, books, audiobooks, CDs, etc.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  Who May Apply: US Citizens
  
  In order to qualify, you must meet the education or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
  
  Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes gathering records, articles, photographs, and various other documents for digital imaging; 2.) unfolding, de-stapling, and/or removing brads or other fasteners from documents, journals, or other written material in preparation for scanning; 3.) using digital imaging hardware such as scanners and printers and digital imaging software such as Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Photoshop to scan, upload, and organize documents for digital library and record retrieval/archival; and/or 4.) reviewing digitized images for clarity/readability and marking those that require correction and/or enhancement. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).
  
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  Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.
  
  OR
  
  Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages.

• About the company

  The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".

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