SummaryThe National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Millions of people come through our doors each year, with even more online, making us one of the most visited art museums in the world. Our renowned collection includes over 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today. Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.
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The Digital Content Strategy and Experience Division brings the art, stories and mission of the National Gallery of Art to life online, helping to expand access, deepen engagement, and build emotional connection. The Digital Asset Specialist will help to ensure the museum's digital asset collections are organized, accessible, and ready to support a wide range of projects across the institution. Working as part of a collaborative team, this role assists with the processing and management of digital assets, supports staff using the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, and contributes to the ongoing development of DAM workflows and infrastructure through optimization and automation to meet evolving institutional needs.
Duties for this position include:
- Ingests, catalogs and distributes digital assets for museum staff and collaborator access.
- Applies administrative, descriptive, structural, and technical metadata to digital assets according to institutional standards. Performs original descriptive cataloging and keyword tagging of digital assets
- Conducts asset discovery and delivery of digital assets to internal and external requesters
- Contributes to the development and application of new workflows to accommodate evolving institutional DAM needs
- Provides training and general user support to staff with questions or issues related to digital asset management.
- Conducts routine troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve issues. Participates in testing to evaluate system integrations, upgrades, and patches.
- Applies high-quality digital imaging standards to review and process incoming digital assets. Perform pre-cataloging duties including quality assurance, formatting, and file naming. Updates existing image media through retouching, cropping, and image rotation
- Contributes to the development and execution of automated workflows
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Conditions of employment- You must be a United States Citizen.
- This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- See "Other Information" section regarding Selective Service requirements.
- Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions viewable on OPM Website. It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date. Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this job announcement. Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.
This position is being advertised under Delegated Examining procedures under this announcement NGA-26-152-DE: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/871961400Experience 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). Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.
QualificationsSpecialized Experience Statement: Candidates must possess at least one year of specialized experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-09 level in the Federal service or private sector, performing digital asset management work within a digital asset management system (DAMS). Qualifying experience must demonstrate responsibility for digital asset workflows including creating, uploading, organizing, tagging, and delivering digital assets; applying metadata using institutional standards and controlled vocabularies; responding to internal and external asset requests; troubleshooting issues; and supporting DAMS users and infrastructure.
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Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
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3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree
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LL.M., if related
OPM Qualifications Standard:
Associated Group standard: Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions
OPM Qualifications Standard:
Associated Group standard: Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions
Merit promotion applicants must meet the time-in-grade requirement as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. One year at the GS-09 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-11 level.
You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
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.
Note: Applicants who are referred to the hiring office for selection consideration may be required to submit writing and/or work samples as part of the interview/selection process. If the hiring office decides to request a writing and/or work sample as part of its selection process, the vacancy contact will reach out to you by email to: (1) inform you of this requirement; and (2) provide further instructions.EducationThis position does not have an education requirement. Additional informationThe National Gallery of Art fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO Policy: https://help.usajobs.gov/equal-employment-opportunityMore than one selection may be made from this vacancy announcement.
This position
is not included in the bargaining unit.
Relocation expenses
will not be paid.
Some positions may require completion of a probationary period of up to 1 (one) year.
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.
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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.
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