Title: Quality Assurance Editor

Series & Grade: GS-1082-9 (135635) $48,108 - $62,546

Location: Electronic Research Products Office, Office of Legislative Information, Congressional Research Service, James Madison Memorial Building

Type of Appointment: Temporary, not-to-exceed 180 days

Benefits: Temporary employees earn annual (vacation) and sick leave. However, there are no health and life insurance benefits for temporary employees.

Number of Vacancies: Seven

Tour of Duty: Full-time. Selectee may select a flexitime work schedule.

Who May Be Considered: 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 immigration law and other legal requirements are met, and the Library determines there are no qualified U.S. citizens available for the position.

USAJOBS places information regarding Veteran’s Preference on Library of Congress vacancies posted on their site. However, the Library of Congress is an excepted service agency in the Legislative Branch of the federal government, and as such, is not subject to the regulatory requirements pertaining to Veteran’s Preference in our selection process.

Brief Description of Duties: Applies knowledge of established publishing specifications and coordinates with Electronic Research Products Office's (ERPO) editorial, quality assurance, and graphics units to provide ongoing publication production support. Identifies formatting and coding issues with files and uses word-processing and publishing software to make corrections and clean up code, such as XML coding, in source files for republication in a timely manner. Provides administrative support related to ERPO's overall operations, and may assist with specialized or unique program or office needs. For example, may assist with the development and maintenance of quality assurance and procedural checklists and guides. Uses standard approaches to perform a variety of duties related to special projects involving administrative or program issues, such as assisting with audits of CRS products for quality issues.

Minimum Qualifications: To be considered, candidates must possess one year of specialized experience at the GS-9 level in the Federal government or at a comparable level of difficulty outside the Federal government. "Specialized experience" is that which demonstrates in a professional work setting, the ability to edit electronic materials for correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, conformity to style guidelines, and identifying and correcting formatting and coding issues. Evidence of meeting the minimum qualifications must be indicated on the application form or any supplemental documents or statements.

Application Procedures: Interested applicants must submit a Federal-style resume or Optional Application for Federal Employment (OF 612) form and a Declaration for Federal Employment (OF 306) form. Completed applications must be submitted to Michael Pearse via fax, email, Federal Express, UPS, or hand delivery:

Due to security concerns on Capitol Hill, there are significant delays in the receipt of US Postal Service mail. Therefore, CRS does not recommend submitting applications via the US Postal Service.

For additional information about this position, please email us. This announcement will remain open until filled.

Last Update: July 22, 2008