Digital Asset Specialist

Summary

We are the nation's art museum, home to a renowned collection of over 160,000 works of art from antiquity to today. 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. Located on the National Mall, admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.

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Duties

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The Digital Content Strategy and Experience Office at the National Gallery of Art 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.

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
• Pass Pre-employment Background Investigation
• 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.

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). 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.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience Statement : Candidates must possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience, equivalent in responsibility to the GS-09 level in the Federal service or private sector, managing digital assets using an official Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. Experience must include:

• Managing digital assets: Create, upload, organize, describe, find, and deliver digital images and audiovisual files;
• Applying Metadata: Enter identifiers, descriptions, technical details, rights information, and keywords in system records and embedded files using industry standards and controlled vocabularies;
• Checking and editing images: Review image quality; format and name files; and crop, rotate, or retouch images following established standards; AND
• Supporting users and improving workflows: Train and assist DAM users and help test, troubleshoot, improve, and automate system processes.

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a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

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3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

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LL.M., if related

OPM Qualifications Standard :

Individual Occupational Requirements: Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 Associated Group standard: Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions

Other Relevant Eligibility Criteria : 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.

Education

This position does not have an education requirement.

Additional information

The National Gallery of Art fosters a fair workplace and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The EEO policy is found at:

More 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.

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.

Reasonable Accommodation Policy:

Veterans Information:

Selective Service Registration:

Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) : To be eligible for a VEOA appointment under Merit Promotion procedures, the veteran must be a preference eligible or a veteran separated after 3 years or more of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions.

Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities : For more information on noncompetitive appointment authority eligibility

requirements visit the following websites:

• Persons with Disabilities-Schedule A
• Special Hiring Authorities for Veterans
• Special Hiring Authority for Certain Military Spouses
• Other Special Appointment Authorities

Reasonable Accommodation Requests: The National Gallery of Art provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need an accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the contact person listed in this announcement.

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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