Jobs for humanists 10/15
Historic Preservation Specialist • Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS) • October 18, 2021 or 100 applicants
This job “ensuring the Agency’s compliance with, including but not limited to, the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).” They’re looking to hire multiple people, so if you have experience with the following, or a graduate degree that taught you how to do these things, take a look:
Applying strategies according to historic preservation laws or regulations.
Participating in the briefing of historic policy or program concepts to stakeholders.
Assisting with the development of historic documents, reports, or plans.
There is some other information about the position and how to qualify at a higher level. The questionnaire is not at all helpful to the application process.
Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery) • Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS) • October 21, 2021 or 100 applications
Like DOE postings, it might be good to create a saved search for this kind of post, if you find it interesting.
The ideal candidate will possess the ability to manage multiple projects and developed and delivered training to a variety of audiences in an adult education environment. . . .
In this position, you will serve as a team member with senior specialists to resolve problems that can be complex, controversial, and precedent setting. Typical assignments include:
Writing or editing technical materials, including reports of research findings.
Developing and implementing emergency management recovery policies and plans, procedures.
Applying a wide range of emergency management knowledge to provide advice, guidance, and interpretation on variety of difficult or complex recovery issues.
Addressing program implementation issues raised by FEMA Regions and makes substantive recommendations to initiate immediate action to resolve issues.
I bet some of you could do this! The qualifications are a terminal degree/a degree + experience/one year of:
Formulating or editing training materials which employ adult education techniques for internal and external audiences; and
Compiling and analyzing information from multiple sources with different reporting requirements and formats.
They’ll evaluate your application for “Technical Proficiency, Communication, Customer Service, Representing the Agency, Teamwork and Cooperation,” and the questionnaire fleshes that out some.
Communication Specialist • National Science Foundation • October 26, 2021
The employee serves as a Communication Specialist in the Office of the Assistant Director(OAD), in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). The employee liaises closely with the directorate’s program staff to help ensure credibility, clarity, and consistency of SBE’s communications effort with the research community and internally within NSF.
The duties section here is VERY organized. You can qualify at the first hiring level with a PhD, though they would also like you to demonstrate experience “writing, copy editing and proofreading articles, press releases or other content covering scientific or other complex technical topics in lay language. Assisting in authoring and publishing web content using a modern content management system.” There is also a special selective factory, though:
Has demonstrated professional experience writing and copy editing articles, press releases or other written content describing complex scientific or technical topics using lay language for a general audience using the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook.
I. If yes, attach two samples of scientific and/or technical written content you have copy edited for lay audiences using AP style, with tracked changes clearly indicating the content before and after copy editing. Scientific and/or technical written content must include material that uses lay language to describe the results, process and/or impacts of complex research in one or more science or technology field. Please note, applications without two copy editing samples attached will not be considered.
Okay, I dunno about that numbering though. If you’ve got those samples, here's the questionnaire.
Library Technician (Metadata) • Library of Congress • November 11, 2021
I strongly suspect someone got funded to do this as an RA:
The Library Technician (Metadata) is supervised by the Chief of the Digital Resources Division, Global Legal Collection Directorate, Law Library of Congress. The incumbent's duties include creation of descriptive metadata for legal documents, including primary and secondary source materials, based upon an examination of the materials. The incumbent also assigns metatags for each document based upon analysis of elements . . .; develops familiarity with the Law Library's established metadata standards and guidelines, in order to apply such guidelines to a variety of digitized legal materials to facilitate online searching; works with standard office software to update, organize, and track metadata for digital legal materials; and serves as a resource for information about Law Library metadata standards and creation.
The posting goes into more detail, of course. They basically want a technically competent person who’s created metadata before:
Ability to generate, maintain and manage metadata for a large volume and wide-range of digital legal documents.**
Ability to utilize computer technology and software applications.**
Ability to communicate in writing.**
Ability to interpret and apply a variety of guidelines and/or standards.
Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.