As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. Major duties: If selected, you will serve as the Records and Information Management Specialist for the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Minnesota, providing analytical and program management work to ensure all USAO records and information in all forms of media (e.g., paper, audio/visual, and digital) are created, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with federal and departmental guidelines.
Typical work assignments will include: Developing, managing, and evaluating the USAO's records management program. Developing, publishing, and evaluating management control systems and procedures applicable to staff and contractors with regard to the handling, storing, or disposing of federal records. Identifying federal records and providing instructions on proper maintenance of such records in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
Preparing files for shipment to the Federal Records Center (FRC), including adherence to quality control standards to distinguish agency records from non-record materials, and insuring use of shipping protocols established by regulation and procedure. Providing analytical advice and assistance to staff and contractors with respect to individual or case-related records management issues. Approving and/or denying all departing (or former) employee requests for copies of federal records in accordance with department policy.
Updating local policy to comply with evolving record management guidelines and developing implementation procedures. Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress. This position is considered a career ladder opportunity, with a full performance level of GS-12. If selected at a lower grade level, you may be non-competitively promoted to the next grade level at the discretion of your supervisor and is contingent upon meeting regulatory and legal requirements for promotion, satisfactory performance, and the availability of higher-level work.
Promotion is not guaranteed, and no promise of promotion is implied. Education: All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see http://www.ed.gov OR Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials. More information may be found at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.