Duties

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• Lead USMA Library's performance including archives, special collections, and digital services to meet West Point's current and future operational requirements.
• Partner with faculty to equip cadets with information fluency, archival research, and digital literacy to foster impactful scholarship, lifelong learning, and effective leadership.
• Provide and maintain elite academic, archival, and special collection resources to fully support the curriculum, scholarship, and institutional mission.
• Align library services, archives, and physical/digital collections with the curriculum to meet the research needs of cadets, faculty, and staff.
• Partner with donors and advancement teams to accept library, archival, and special collection material gifts on behalf of the Superintendent.
• Oversee the USMA Archives National Archives and Records Administration (NARA Record Group 404), ensuring proper stewardship, preservation, digitization, access to historical materials and institutionally significant materials.
• Deliver prompt, effective digital and onsite library and archival services to support study, scholarship, historical research, and intellectual development.
• Serve as administrative faculty and teach a course within your academic discipline or area of professional specialty.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Appointment to this position may be subject to a two year trial period.
• This position is supervisory as defined by the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) General Schedule Supervisory Guide (GSSG). A one year probation to assess your ability to perform supervisory duties is required unless previously completed.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens

This is a full-time term appointment in the excepted service not to exceed 3 years.

• Term appointments may be extended beyond the initial term.
• As a term employee you will be eligible for medical insurance, life insurance, retirement dental and vision.
• You will be eligible to earn annual leave and sick leave.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must (a) hold a bachelor's degree or higher that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, OR (b) possess a combination of education and experience courses equivalent to a major in education, or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study described above.

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTORS / KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs):

Applicants will be evaluated on the following:

1) Academic Accomplishment (Master's preferred) in Library (M.L.S) or information Science (M.L.I.S) or a related field.

2) Demonstrated ability to teach courses within the appropriate academic discipline of specialty.

3) Demonstrated ability to direct a large-scale academic library and archival operation; integrated strategic planning, facility oversight, and multi-tiered budget execution to align with institutional priorities.

4) Ability to contribute meaningfully to service activities at the institutional, professional, and national levels.

5) Demonstrated expertise of the current higher-education, library, and archival landscape, including emerging technologies, digital preservation, scholarly communication, and rapidly evolving digital literacies such as generative artificial intelligence and AI literacy.

Education

Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Two-year trial period may be required, during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a Career Program (CP) 31 - Education Services position.
• You may claim military spouse preference (MSP).
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
• This position is not eligible for regular, and recurring telework. This position is eligible for situational telework only, including emergency and OPM prescribed "unscheduled telework". Situational telework is sometimes also referred to as episodic, intermittent, unscheduled, or ad-hoc telework. Situational telework is approved on a case-by-case basis, where the hours worked were not part of a previously approved, ongoing, and regular telework schedule.
• Position may include working selected weekends, evenings and holidays.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal 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.