Minimum Qualification Requirements:
To qualify for this position, you must meet either (A) Specialized Experience, (B) Education, or (C) Combination of Education and Experience for the grade to which you are applying.

A. Specialized Experience:
To qualify for the GS-09, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience:

1. Researching historical documents through electronic and hard copy resources to obtain information;
2. Analyzing techniques to interpret data, review research, and draw conclusions; and
3. Communicating with customers to provide accurate information or assistance.

MUST MEET ALL

-OR-

B. Education:
A master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.B. or J.D., if related. Education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. (Transcripts required)

-OR-

C. Combination of Education and Experience:
A combination of post baccalaureate education and experience that meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position. Education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. (Transcripts required)

NOTE: If qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to submit a copy of your official or unofficial transcripts.

Additional Requirements:
This position requires the incumbent to, at a minimum, have a Elementary proficiency of the Hawaiian language ('olelo Hawai'i). Elementary proficiency means: (a) speaking - Able to satisfy minimum courtesy requirements and maintain very simple face to-face conversations on familiar topics. The speaker has a functional, but limited proficiency and with rehearsed material able to produce continuous discourse. (b) reading - Sufficient comprehension to read very simple connected written material in a form equivalent to usual printing of typescript. Can read either representations of familiar formulaic verbal exchanges or simple language containing only the highest frequency structural patterns and vocabulary, including shared international vocabulary items and cognates (when appropriate).

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.