Historian

Job summary

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Major duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Operations Command (SpOC) at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado is searching for a Historian (NH-0170-03, GS-12/13 equivalent). Description: This position serves as the Space Base Delta 2 Command Historian, ensuring the official history and heritage of SBD 2 and Buckley Space Force Base (Buckley SFB) is preserved. The incumbent manages the installation history program and provides professional history policy and guidance to SBD 2 command and staff and all units under service agreements. Work typically involves the critical analysis of large, complex, major projects and is characterized by the need for substantial problem analysis. The incumbent is responsible for developing projects to document and preserve historical records, documents, oral histories from numerous sources to preserve items and matters of historical value. This position is responsible for creating and implementing studies to obtain and retain official information related to historical matters affecting SBD 2 and Buckley SFB. The incumbent will serve as the Buckley SFB local subject matter expert, providing SBD 2 senior leadership, commanders and their staff, Space Force and government agencies, DoD, and the public answers to historical queries and conducting outreach to stakeholders. In addition, the position manages the heritage program, researching, writing, and publishing heritage information on Airmen and Guardian past and present and advising SBD 2 leadership and assigned units on the memorialization process and proper display of flags, guidons, streamers, standards, and heraldic devices. The ideal candidate for this position will have a demonstrated professional knowledge of historical principles, concepts, research sources, methodology, and techniques to conduct historical research and create official historical documentation through education or experience. This will include a broad knowledge of US Space Force, Air Force or command history programs and current operations, policies, programs, and activities, especially as they apply to a large, complex installation or center and its mission. Candidate should have experience with the military heraldry program, conducting oral history interviews and research, the ability to plan detailed and complex historical studies, and the demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve problems, and to collect, organize, and interrelate large amounts of diversely formatted data drawn from a wide variety of sources. Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Professional knowledge of historical principles, concepts, research sources, methodology, and techniques. 2. Broad knowledge of USSF, AF and/or command history programs and current operations, policies, programs, and activities, especially as they apply to a large complex installation or center and its mission. 3. Knowledge and understanding of military heraldry program, policies, and procedures. 4. Knowledge of effective techniques required to conduct oral history interviews and research. 5. Ability to plan detailed and complex studies, anticipate and solve problems, and to collect, organize, and interrelate large amounts of diversely formatted data drawn from a wide variety of sources. 6. Ability to critically evaluate sources of information and establish validity of historical facts. 7. Ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements; determine goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinate with other organizations; monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes. 8. Skill in working with customers to assess needs, provide assistance, resolve problems, and satisfy expectations. 9. Ability to persuade others to accept recommendations, work toward an agreement, and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions. 10. Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships and to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. 11. Ability to identify problems and use sound judgment and decisions to generate and evaluate alternatives and make recommendations.

Qualification

The 0170 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. In addition to the above requirements, you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 4th section titled Professional and Scientific Positions.

Evaluations

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.