Current Openings

  • nte 3 years ( u.s. citizens only )
    Research Assistant (Congress and American National Government)(Vacancy#:VAR001380) The Congressional Research Service (CRS) Government and Finance Division (G&F) is seeking a Research Assistant to support its Congress and Judiciary Section. The selectee will perform data analysis, research, writing, and quality control duties in support of research analysts and managers developing CRS products and otherwise addressing congressional requests for information and analysis.
    • Opening Date: December 4, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-09
    • Series: 0101
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Accountant (Systems)(Vacancy#:VAR001367) This position serves as a Senior Systems Accountant performing work relating to the financial activities of the Financial Systems Division within the Financial Systems Directorate (FSD). The incumbent of this position plans, directs, manages, designs, develops and maintains an agency-wide financial management system. The incumbent also serves as an expert advisor and assistant to the Chief, Financial Systems Division for administering a central financial...
    • Opening Date: December 11, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-14
    • Series: 0510
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Budget Analyst (Vacancy#:VAR001398) This position is located in the Financial Management Directorate, Library Collections and Services Group. The incumbent serves as a Budget Analyst within the Financial Management Directorate (FMD) Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC). The incumbent reports to the Director FMD and is responsible for advising on budgetary matters and supporting the planning of the formulation, presentation, and execution...
    • Opening Date: December 1, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0560
  • nte 2 years ( open to all )
    Innovation Specialist (Vacancy#:VAR001346) The position serves as a Senior Innovation Specialist in the Digital Strategy Directorate within the Digital Innovation Lab (LC Labs) service unit of the Library of Congress. The position reports directly to the LC Labs Chief who provides administrative and policy direction concerning overall project priorities and objectives.This role is one of two Innovation Specialists who will support the Library in providing computational access...
    • Opening Date: November 24, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-14
    • Series: 0301
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Library Technician (Collections) (Vacancy#:VAR001409) This position is located in the Collections Services Division, Global Legal Collection Directorate, Law Library. The incumbent retrieves and supplies the legal materials; performs preliminary searching of non-duplicates; conducts all steps necessary to complete baseline inventory of retrospective volumes in the Law Library. This include creating and updating the holding records, with the proper construction of summary holding information for serial materials; sorts, arranges,...
    • Opening Date: December 1, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-07
    • Series: 1411
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Supervisory Librarian (Assistant Chief, Collections Management Division)(Vacancy#:VAR001386) The incumbent of this position serves as the Assistant Chief to the Chief, who is the Library's officer responsible for the retrieval, care, maintenance, and inventory management of the twelve million volumes in the classified book collections of the Nation's library and for other collections as assigned. The Assistant Chief is considered an expert in coordinating the planning, development and implementation of a program...
    • Opening Date: December 1, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 4, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-15
    • Series: 1410
  • temporary ( library employees only )
    Program/Innovation Specialist (Detail/Temporary Promotion Opportunity) Area of Consideration: Limited to existing GS11 and GS12 level staff Library Wide. GS-11 level staff will receive a temporary promotion. GS-12 level staff will observe a non-grade changing detail. BackgroundThe Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Digital Strategy Directorate is offering a reimbursable temporary promotion/detail for a qualified staff member at the GS-11 or GS12 level to serve on a full-time, 120...
    • Opening Date: December 22, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 5, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-12
    • Series: 0301
  • permanent ( library employees only )
    Visitor Experience Program Manager (Project Manager)(Vacancy#:VAR001390) This position is located in the Center for Exhibits and Interpretation (CEI). CEI brings the Library’s collections to life and deepens impact through exhibits and experiential environments, design and printed materials, and publications. CEI is directly responsible for the following offices: the Exhibits Office, the Design/Printing Office, and the Publishing Office.AGENCY EMPLOYEES - CONSIDERATION UNDER THIS VACANCY IS LIMITED TO THE STAFF OF THE...
    • Opening Date: December 17, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 5, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0340
  • temporary ( library employees only )
    Administrative Specialist (Temporary Promotion/Detail Opportunity) This position will serve as the Interim Administrative Specialist and perform other duties as assigned. This position is located in the Internship & Fellowship Programs (IFP) Office, Human Capital Directorate (HCD) at the Library of Congress and reports to the Chief, IFP. The incumbent provides administrative support and assistance to the Chief in the areas of strategic planning, budget, procurement and contracting, and human...
    • Opening Date: December 22, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 6, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-11
    • Series: 0301
  • temporary ( open to all )
    Information Technology Specialist (SYSANALYSIS) (Vacancy#: VAR001148) This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants may submit or update their application before the closing date. Applicants will be referred after the first cutoff date, and subsequent referrals will be made at the manager’s request. The announcement may close earlier or at the request of the selecting official or after the job is filled.Serves as a recognized technical authority for new or...
    • Opening Date: January 7, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 6, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-14
    • Series: 2210
  • temporary ( library employees only )
    Program Specialist (Temporary Promotion/Detail Opportunity) This position is located in the Internship & Fellowship Programs (IFP) Office, Human Capital Directorate (HCD) at the Library of Congress and reports to the Chief, IFP. The incumbent provides program support on routine and non-routine duties to all IFP staff. The incumbent plans, executes and evaluates program-related activities and assignments that facilitates the overall mission and vision of IFP. The incumbent will work...
    • Opening Date: December 22, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 6, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0301
  • leadership development program ( library employees only )
    Leadership Development Program (LDP)  Position: LDP Fellow Duration: LDP is scheduled to begin in April 2021. Training sessions will be held for one week per month (five consecutive business days) from April 2021 to February 2022 (no December sessions). Fellows will serve in an acting supervisory detail from March 2022 to June 2022 not to exceed 120 days. Specific start/end dates will be determined by LDP Program Manager...
    • Opening Date: November 2, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 8, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS- 11/12/13
  • permanent ( library employees only )
    VAR001348, Supervisory Librarian (Head, Technical Services Section) Prints and Photographs (Vacancy#:VAR001348) The Prints and Photographs Division (P&P) collections (e.g., popular and fine prints, photographic prints and negatives, posters, drawings, and architectural plans) have a national and international significance due to their historical value, complexity and variety of matter, variety of media, extent of holdings (more than 15 million items), and scope of representation. They are used for research and commercial purposes by scholars, educators, curators,...
    • Opening Date: December 16, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 8, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-14
    • Series: 1410
  • permanent ( u.s. citizens only )
    Analyst in Agricultural Policy (Vacancy#VAR001422) The Resources, Science and Industry Division of the Congressional Research Service seeks an Analyst in Agricultural Policy. The analyst will address agricultural issues related to rural economic development, especially U.S. Department of Agriculture programs affecting rural America, including those related to rural utilities and expanding broadband deployment and access in rural America.
    • Opening Date: December 8, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 11, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0101
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Technical Services Technician (Vacancy#:VAR001441) Anyone may apply - By law, employment at most U.S. Government agencies, including the Library of Congress, is limited to U.S. citizens. However, non-citizens may be hired, provided that other legal requirements are met and the Library determines there are no qualified U.S. citizens available for the position.This position is located in the Technical Services Section of Prints and Photographs Division, which acquires, organizes,...
    • Opening Date: December 30, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 13, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-06
    • Series: 1411
  • permanent ( u.s. citizens only )
    Legislative Attorney (Tax Law)(Vacancy#:VAR001438) The Congressional Research Service (CRS), American Law Division (ALD), seeks a Legislative Attorney to analyze legal questions that emerge from the work of Congress related to tax law in particular and American public law generally. This is a non-litigating position emphasizing qualifications and interest in legal research and writing in a public service legislative context.
    • Opening Date: December 14, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 14, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0905
  • permanent ( current and former federal employees only )
    Human Resources Specialist (Employee Relations)(Vacancy#VAR001415) A career-making opportunity awaits you at the Library of Congress, not only the largest library in the world, but also one of our nation’s premiere cultural institutions. At the Library, we are charged with preserving and providing access to the knowledge and achievement of humankind across geographies, across centuries. And that takes an array of distinguished, world-class scholars and subject-matter experts, all, with whom...
    • Opening Date: December 30, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 15, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-12/13
    • Series: 0201
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Librarian (Vacancy#:VAR001421) This position is located in the China Section, Asian and Middle Eastern Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, Library Services. It is a hybrid position that combines major duties of both the acquisition specialist and the cataloger. There may be a foreign language requirement for this position depending on the geographical area for which cataloging or acquisitions functions are being performed. For example, staff...
    • Opening Date: December 22, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 18, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-09
    • Series: 1410
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Reference Librarian (Vacancy#:VAR001248) This position is located in the European Reading Room, European Division, General and International Collections, Library Services. The divisions in Collection and Services are the Library's primary gateway to the collections and reference services dealing with the non-English-speaking world. Reference librarians in these divisions provide assistance to researchers in the culture, history, literature, politics, political structure, economies, humanities, and social sciences of these countries...
    • Opening Date: December 23, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 22, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-09
    • Series: 1410
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Reference Librarian (Vacancy#:VAR001432) Anyone may apply - By law, employment at most U.S. Government agencies, including the Library of Congress, is limited to U.S. citizens. However, non-citizens may be hired, provided that other legal requirements are met and the Library determines there are no qualified U.S. citizens available for the position.This position is located in the European Reading Room, European Division, General and International Collections, Library Services....
    • Opening Date: December 29, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 26, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-09
    • Series: 1410
  • permanent ( u.s. citizens only )
    Legislative Attorney (Constitutional Law)(Vacancy#:VAR001436) The Congressional Research Service (CRS), American Law Division (ALD), seeks a Legislative Attorney to analyze legal questions that emerge from the work of Congress related to constitutional law in particular and American public law generally. This is a non-litigating position emphasizing qualifications and interest in legal research and writing in a public service legislative context
    • Opening Date: December 29, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 29, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 0904
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Librarian (Digital Collections Specialist)(Vacancy#:VAR001431) This position serves as a Digital Collection Specialist located within the Digital Content Management Section, Digital Collections Management and Services Division, Digital Services Directorate, Library Services. The position reports to the Digital Content Management Section and is responsible for acquisitions, management of digital collections, project development, management, consultation, and liaison work.
    • Opening Date: December 29, 2020
    • Closing Date: January 29, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-09
    • Series: 1410
  • permanent ( u.s. citizens only )
    Research Manager (Banking, Insurance, Securities, and Macroeconomic Policy)(Vacancy#:VAR001439) This position serves as a Research Manager for a section in a research division of the Congressional Research Service. Serves the CRS research community by demonstrating intellectual leadership in developing approaches to research and policy analysis relevant to congressional needs in policy areas within the research management responsibility of the section.
    • Opening Date: December 30, 2020
    • Closing Date: February 1, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-15
    • Series: 0101
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Lead Contract Specialist (Vacancy#:VAR001324) The incumbent serves as a contract specialist for the Library of Congress programs. This position will be utilized throughout the Office of the Chief Operating Officer. The incumbent awards and administers a wide range of contract actions for the various library service units. The incumbent serves as a Contracting Officer and Team Leader.This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants may submit or update...
    • Opening Date: July 29, 2020
    • Closing Date: July 28, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 1102
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Contract Specialist (Vacancy#:VAR001326) This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants may submit or update their application before the closing date. Applicants will be referred after the first cutoff date, and subsequent referrals will be made at the manager’s request. The announcement may close earlier or at the request of the selecting official or after the job is filled.As a Contract Specialist at the Library, you will...
    • Opening Date: August 3, 2020
    • Closing Date: August 2, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-07
    • Series: 1102
  • Job Posting ( open to all )
    Contract Specialist (Vacancy#:VAR001347) This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants may submit or update their application before the closing date. Applicants will be referred after the first cutoff date, and subsequent referrals will be made at the manager’s request. The announcement may close earlier or at the request of the selecting official or after the job is filled.The first cutoff for receipt of applications under this...
    • Opening Date: August 4, 2020
    • Closing Date: August 3, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-12
    • Series: 1102
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Supervisory Contract Specialist (Vacancy#:VAR001325) This position serves as a Supervisory Contract Specialist within the Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. This position will be utilized throughout the service unit. The incumbent will serve as a first line supervisor for a diverse contracts staff, and manage day-to-day operations of the award and administration of purchase orders and contracts for the Library of Congress. The...
    • Opening Date: August 6, 2020
    • Closing Date: August 5, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-14
    • Series: 1102
  • permanent ( open to all )
    Criminal Investigator (Vacancy#: VAR001214) This position is located in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), an independent office within the Library of Congress (Library) as established under the Library of Congress Inspector General Act of 2005, as amended, 2 USC § 185. The primary purpose of this position is to plan and conduct investigations involving violations of laws and regulations that affect Library of Congress programs and...
    • Opening Date: August 27, 2020
    • Closing Date: August 26, 2021
    • Grade Level: GS-13
    • Series: 1811
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