Director of Native Arts and Tribal Affairs

3 weeks ago

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States USAJobs Full time
Duties

The incumbent serves as Director for Native Arts and Tribal Affairs at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), reporting to the Senior Deputy Chair. In this capacity, you will:

-Serve as the NEA's primary liaison between the agency and indigenous communities.

-Work within the NEA to coordinate and align related work across offices.

-Responsible for nation-to-nation relationships with federally recognized tribes (including management of tribal consultation), advising the Chair the Senior Deputy Chair, and other offices on tribal engagement and agency strategy to serve Native peoples and communities, developing and managing cooperative agreements, grants and other resources to support the advancement of native arts and tribal affairs.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
  • Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
  • May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
  • Selective Service registration required.
  • All employees are required to participate in Direct Deposit/ Electronic Funds Transfer for salary payments.
  • All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.
  • Relocation expenses are not authorized. Other recruitment incentives may be authorized.
  • This is a Temporary Not to exceed 2 year Appointment.
  • This announcement is issued under NEA's Schedule A Hiring Authority.
  • This is a bargaining unit position.

    Qualifications

    In order to qualify for this position you must meet the following:

    GS-14:

    You must have at least one year of full-time specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-13 level in the Federal service, with experience in performing the following duties:

    1) Working as part of Native and Indigenous communities or tribal governments or serving as a liaison to Indigenous communities;
    2) Working on grants, contracts, agreements, and other resources to support the advancement of Native arts and/or tribal affairs; and
    3) Engaging on arts or culture-related issues on behalf or with Native communities.

    GS-15:

    You must have at least one year of full-time specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-14 level in the Federal service, with experience in performing the following duties:

    1) Working extensively as part of Native and Indigenous communities or tribal governments or serving as a liaison to Indigenous communities on arts or cultural issues.
    2) Developing and managing grants, contracts, agreements, and other resources to support the advancement of Native arts and tribal affairs; and
    3) Leading the development of a comprehensive strategy on arts or culture-related issues in support of Native communities.

    (Please Note: In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the requirements above, including experience working with Native and indigenous communities on arts-related issues).

    NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.

    Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the advertised grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

    You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the dates worked and total number of hours per week.

    National Service Experience (i.e., 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.

    Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

    The qualification requirements listed above must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

    Interagency/Career Transition Assistance Program (I/CTAP) Eligibles: If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not I/CTAP eligible. View information about I/CTAP eligibility on OPM's Career Transition Resources website. To be considered well qualified under I/CTAP, you must be rated at a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement.

    Education

    This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

    Additional information

    Identification of promotion potential in this announcement does not constitute a commitment or an obligation of management to promote the employee selected at some future date. Additional selections may be made from this vacancy.

    If you are claiming CTAP/ICTAP eligibility, you must submit proof by 08/26/2024 that you meet the requirements of 5 CFR a) for CTAP and 5 CFR for ICTAP or you will not receive priority consideration. The proof includes a copy of the agency notice, your most recent Performance Rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty station. To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority of this vacancy, you must earn a minimum score of 85 (prior to the assignment of veteran's preference) on the rating criteria for this position.

    VETERANS PREFERENCE: If claiming 5-point veteran preference you MUST submit copy number 4 of the DD-214. If you are claiming 10-point veteran preference you MUST submit an SF-15, Application for 10-point Veteran's Preference AND all other required documents in order to be granted the preference. All documents must be received by 08/26/2024. Additional information on veteran's preference is available at:

    If you are selected for this Federal position, you will be required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment", (OF-306), prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigation. Failure to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false statements on the application may be grounds for not hiring you or dismissing you after you begin work, and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001).

    The application contains information subject the Privacy Act (P.L , 5 U.S.C. 552a). The information issued will be used to determine qualifications for employment, and is authorized under Title 5 U.S.C. Section 3302 and 3361.

    Recruitment methods and selection procedures will based solely on merit after fair and open competition, and will be made without regard to political, religious, or labor organization affiliation or non-affiliation, marital status, race, color, sex, national origin, non-disqualifying disability, sexual-orientation or age.

    If you are unable to apply online please contact

    Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online if at all possible. Applying online, through your USAJOBS account, will expedite the application process and allow you to check your application status as well as verify the documentation submitted with your application.

    Additional selections may be made from this vacancy.

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