LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Role Description This position is located in the Financial Systems Division, Financial Services Directorate, Chief Operating Officer. The position description number for this position is 434921. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. - Articulates and communicates to project teams the assignments, projects, problems to be resolved, actionable events, milestones, and issues, and sets deadlines and time frames for completion. - Coordinates implementation of the projects and work relationships with relevant areas of the Library. - Ensures consideration of whether the Library and external organizations can support the proposed projects or activities. - Uses the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodology and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices. - Creates Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), GANTT charts, and performance measurements; manages work through all SDLC phases. - Leads and coordinates project activities with project team members. - Facilitates project communications and oversees complex projects. - Develops PMLC and SDLC documentation. - Develops and maintains project schedules and identifies dependencies and the critical path within project tasks. - Conducts risk management and develops mitigation and contingency plans. - Schedules and conducts regular project team meetings; ensures team members participate in project planning activities. - Tracks application design and delivery status through the life cycle stages. - Interviews stakeholders to clarify project scope and identify assumptions and constraints. - Identifies, distributes, and balances workload and tasks among project team members. - Leads teams of Financial Systems specialists, project stakeholders, and others to establish and implement strategies. - Ensures financial system solutions comply with all applicable information security and other laws, regulations, requirements, and policies. - Coordinates with vendors and Library end users to ensure contract requirements are met. - Reviews contractor deliverables and sets priorities. - Prepares statements of work, independent government cost estimates, and schedules for completion of work. - Supports onboarding of new contractors and reviews contractor invoices for payment. - Evaluates feasibility studies and analyzes technical assessment reports. - Conducts research and analysis to determine if actions are required to exercise the option years on contracts. - Provides business process and financial systems advice and expertise to the chief of the Financial Systems Office. - Supports the planning, execution, installation, and training of all new and/or improved financial management processes and systems. - Plans and conducts expert analysis of current/projected resource factors to determine overall effectiveness. - Ensures adequate internal controls are in place and develops required controls if they are not. - Prepares effective strategy for recovery in the event of system failure. - Develops recovery methodology for the system in coordination with the overall Library disaster recovery plans. Qualifications - Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. - Ability to lead and manage projects. - Knowledge of contract preparation and contractor monitoring policies and procedures. - Ability to implement, manage, or administer automated accounting systems and software applications for financial management work. - Ability to communicate in writing. - Knowledge of the Federal budget process and financial management practices and procedures including planning, formulation, justification, and execution. - Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.

Role Description This position is located in the Development Operations Section, Software Engineering Division, IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer. The position description number for this position is 467416. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. - Recommends, designs, and develops applications and supporting hardware and software. - Responsible for the design and implementation of complex technical solutions across the application stack. - Builds individual system solutions and solutions that apply across multiple systems and projects. - Plans system interfaces and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy. - Analyzes solution options, trade-offs, designs and integration methods. - Presents technical solutions to management for concurrence and/or guidance. - Communicates issues, plans and implications of architectural decisions to business and IT Leadership. - Provides technical and architectural leadership for systems and projects. - Serves as technical leader on projects and leads and participates in technical design sessions. - Leads the design of new applications/solutions from conception to completion. - Ensures a maximally robust design is developed. - Works closely with fellow team members to rapidly build and deploy technical solutions. - Participates in the technical oversight of sub-systems design and development and integration into the overall enterprise solution. - Verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability of application architectures. - Provides knowledge of solution/application architecture to business and technology teams. - Keeps current on emerging application design, database architectures, technologies, and methodologies. - Serves as an expert in multiple technical subject areas and works to deliver technical guidance where needed. - Reviews proposed application designs, system architectures, and technology solutions. - Discusses alternative solutions with users, developers, and engineers throughout OCIO. - Provides support and guidance to development teams during the analysis, development, testing and deployment processes. - Provides or reviews detailed design and specification documentation for applications and databases. - Creates project and application architecture deliverables consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices. - Provides input to the development of project initiation documents when needed. - Contributes to improving best practices for code architecture, unit testing, database, and technical designs. - Provides training and mentoring on design and architecture best practices. - Ensures solutions are consistent with agency technical standards, strategic direction, and enterprise architecture principles. - Uses judgment to research, interpret, modify, and develop technical solutions meeting business requirements. - Possesses knowledge of many technologies and accurately judges their applicability to specific situations. - Evaluates applications' development needs and applies technical principles and concepts to develop business solutions. - Applies proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve systems issues to maximize the benefit of IT investments. - Performs troubleshooting and solves problems. - Analyzes problems and issues and determines the most efficient way to solve them. - Coordinates with applications developers to isolate and help solve problems encountered during testing and implementation. - Analyzes procedures and data to develop logical solutions to complex application programming problems. - Identifies problem areas and opportunities and makes recommendations. - Participates in the development of technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices. - Advises and consults OCIO management on technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements. - Independently reviews and analyzes existing software solutions for continued effectiveness in meeting business and technology needs. - Identifies deficiencies in existing system designs and recommends solutions for improvement. - Performs reviews of technical architectures and components. - Analyzes system performance and efficiency. - Reviews existing systems for stability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability, and makes recommendations for improvements. - Uses routine techniques and strategies to optimize technologies. - Reviews proposed designs and architectures. - Provides quality reviews of technical selections, design documents, and implementation plans, ensuring appropriateness. - Reviews proposed COTS selections, development platform choices, and design approaches. - Monitors implementations to ensure correct implementation of proposed solutions. - Designs, develops and administers information technology systems and tools, ensuring architectures and plans are aligned with technology strategy. - Serves as an expert and consultant to management on design, development, and integration tools. - Implements and maintains complex systems. Qualifications - Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. - Ability to design, maintain, and integrate a technical architecture program based on business requirements. - Knowledge of infrastructure technologies and practices. - Ability to evaluate and select technology products, services and standards. - Ability to conduct systems analysis and design. - Ability to facilitate, negotiate, and obtain consensus. - Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.

Role Description The Library of Congress Internships (LOCI) program is a seasonal, 10- or 14-week paid internship program that enables undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to gain experience through applied learning and professional development opportunities that advance the academic and career pursuits of participants. - This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. - The 2026 Fall session of the Library of Congress Internships Program includes options for virtual, remote project work. - Interns hired under this announcement will be expected to conduct work from their home location. - Interns will be exposed to a broad spectrum of library work: copyright, preservation, reference, access standards, and information management. - Assignments will span many professional fields at the Library, including: - Information technology - Human capital - Event planning - Communications - Collections support - Research - Interns work with Library staff on mission-critical projects that utilize the interns’ existing skills. - Interns participate in a wide range of projects designed to challenge and strengthen the skills of emerging professionals. 2026 Fall Projects: - Internship and Fellowship Programs (IFP) Program Assistant - Talent Recruitment (TR) Program Assistant - Library of Congress Publishing Office Intern - Supporting the Centers for the Book Affiliate Network - Quality Assurance Automation Testing with SAFe Methodology - Quality Assurance Automation Testing – Intern 1 - Quality Assurance Automation Testing – Intern 2 - IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Please note, there is no page restriction to your resume, and you are allowed to upload a resume longer than two pages in the resume section within the application process. Qualifications - Must be a U.S. citizen. Permanent residents are ineligible for consideration. - MUST be a U.S. Citizen currently enrolled at time of application in a degree-granting program of study at an accredited institution of higher learning (community college, college, university, or tribal college) at the undergraduate level or graduate level, AND/OR have graduated or will graduate between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. - MUST BE AVAILABLE TO REPORT TO WORK REMOTELY FOR FULL FOURTEEN-WEEK PERIOD from September 8 through December 11, 2026. - MUST be available to attend mandatory orientation on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. NO EXCEPTIONS. - Must be available to work a full-time schedule, Monday – Friday during the Library’s core business hours: 6:30 am – 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. Requirements - All projects require basic knowledge of Microsoft Office programs. - MUST be a U.S. citizen. - MUST be a first-time participant in the Library of Congress Internships Program. - MUST be located in the U.S. or its territories for the entire duration of the internship. - MUST be available to work Monday – Friday during the Library’s core business hours of 6:30 am – 6:00 pm Eastern Time. - Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana. Application Requirements - Federal-style Resume (no page restriction). - Responses to all Vacancy Questions. - Latest transcript from the current or most recently attended college or university OR official registrar documentation certifying enrollment in Spring 2026. - A legible copy of your latest college/university transcripts is required with your online application. - Two (2) references (name, email and phone) that can attest to the applicant's proficiency, skills, work ethic, reliability, quality of work, and capacity to work on teams. - Letters of Recommendation are NOT required for the application.

Role Description This permanent position is eligible for 100% distant or local telework. The salary range advertised is for the Washington, DC area and may be adjusted based on the geographic locale of the selected applicant(s). Selectee(s) will not be eligible for relocation expenses in the event the Library determines the position is no longer suitable for distant telework. - The incumbent serves as a contract specialist for the Library of Congress programs. - This position will be utilized through the Office of the Chief Operating Officer. - The incumbent awards and administers a wide range of contracts actions for the various library service units. - The incumbent serves as a Contracts Team Leader. - Negotiates contracts for several Library programs that include various contract types of varying complexity. - Plans the negotiation strategy, coordinates strategy with negotiation team, and conducts negotiations with contractors to arrive at contract prices and terms. - Prepares the contracts and recommends award. - Serves as Contract Specialist responsible for complex procurements containing numerous differing processes or elements. - Performs procurement planning. - Prepares novel or innovative acquisition plans, source selection plans, and contract terms, conditions, or financial arrangements which serve as models for future acquisitions. - Prepares procurement objectives relating to the terms of competition and price range. - Constructs the contractual vehicle including use of pricing arrangements, subcontracting policy, and like considerations. - Prepares milestone charts and related schedules. - Advises program officials in procurement planning. - Advises program officials of the procurement objectives to be utilized and assists in preparing statements of work. - Identifies need for regulatory or policy deviation and prepares determinations and findings. - Prepares pre-award contract file and solicitation documentation. - Engages in contract administration activities for important, highly specialized procurements. - Responsibilities typically include functions such as exercising options, reviewing and negotiating requests for equitable adjustment and claims, coordinating schedule extensions, incorporating change orders, issuing stop work orders, approving payment schedules and terms, and ensuring final payment and release of claims prior to closeout. - Independently reviews contractor performance through site visits, correspondence, and phone conversations for completion of applicable contract clauses e.g., intellectual property rights, labor laws, and performance reports, and deliverables. - Makes recommendations and issues cure or show cause notices when the contractor is not in compliance. - Conducts contract reviews to assess performance. - Oversees contractor activities through personal contact or review to ensure compliance with technical, financial, delivery, and other contract terms. - Serves as a Team Leader. - Articulates and communicates to the team the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion. - Identifies, distributes, and balances workload and tasks among employees in accord with established workflow, skill level, and/or occupational specialization. - Makes adjustments to accomplish the workload in accord with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks. - Monitors and reports to the supervisor on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to ensure instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines, and quality have been met. - Answers questions from team members on procedures, policies, regulations, etc. - Prepares reports and maintains records of work accomplishments and administrative information, as required, and coordinates the preparation, presentation, and communication of work-related information. - Estimates and reports to the team on progress in meeting established milestones and deadlines for completing assignments, projects, and tasks. - Ensures all team members are aware of and participate in planning for achievement of team goals and objectives. Qualifications - Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. - Knowledge of Federal contracting laws, regulations, principles, policies, and procedures to develop and issue solicitations and contracts. - Ability to communicate in writing. - Ability to solicit, negotiate, and monitor contracts. - Ability to lead a team. - Ability to assess and meet customer needs. - Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.

Role Description This permanent position is eligible for 100% distant telework/remote. The salary range advertised reflects salary for the Washington DC Locality Area. The actual salary range for candidates outside of the Washington DC Locality Area may differ. - Supports the Library’s IT asset management program. - Responsible for performing centralized IT asset management functions, processes, and solutions. - Maintains integration among IT asset management functions and other related processes and solutions. - Develops and enhances processes and automation for IT asset life cycle management. - Ensures IT asset management processes are conducted in line with agency policies and standards. - Identifies current and future IT asset needs, formulating plans and recommending actions to optimize the IT asset portfolio. - Advises project, program, infrastructure, and application portfolio managers on software licensing and compliance. - Develops, implements, and manages production of IT asset life cycle management status reporting, metrics, and benchmarks. - Designs, develops, and administers information technology systems and tools to meet complex new or modified current or future business requirements. - Monitors the performance of these systems, adding enhancements, modifications, and additional features as requested by management and end users. - Serves as an expert on IT asset management tools. - Evaluates and analyzes existing processes and automated solutions for continued effectiveness in meeting business and technology needs. - Identifies deficiencies in existing process and automated solution design and recommends improvements. - Analyzes process and automated solution performance, efficiency, stability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability, and implements improvements. - Reviews data submissions and automatically collected data to identify discrepancies and works with submitters and stakeholders to effect corrections. - Manages and coordinates contract administration activities for long-term, extensive technical service contracts. - Independently evaluates contractor procedures for the analysis, design, development, test, and support of IT systems. - Directs the installation and maintenance of computer hardware and software supplied by the equipment manufacturers or software development companies. Qualifications - Progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. - Knowledge of IT asset management (ITAM) practices. - Ability to operate and enhance automated IT asset management tools. - Ability to identify and analyze metrics. - Ability to create guidelines and requirements. - Ability to perform quality assurance. - Ability to interact collaboratively with others. - Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing. Requirements - This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Role Description The Archives, History and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) Internship Program gives the next generation of archivists and knowledge workers invaluable opportunities to analyze, organize, and interpret collections or programs that help share the story of the American experience. Internships and projects will heighten visibility for Library resources that represent the rich heritage of the United States. - AHHA offers undergraduate juniors & seniors, graduate students and recent graduates insights into the Library of Congress collections—the world's largest & most comprehensive repository of human knowledge. - Interns will work under the supervision & guidance of a specialist & learn the standards & techniques to properly arrange & provide descriptions for archival collection materials. - The program focuses on building awareness of how unique historical records are analyzed, organized, & described in order to make them available for research & educational use. - Interns will have the opportunity to explore historical documents representing rich creative & intellectual resources, while working under the direction of library specialists in various divisions. - Interns will develop knowledge of the types of materials within the Library’s collections, including how they are collected, acquired, cataloged, preserved, interpreted, & shared, & the procedures governing their use. - Develop & maintain personal contacts & cooperative work relationships with librarians and others throughout the Library, with colleagues in other intern programs, and with subject matter experts to provide or exchange information. - Present information to groups and persons with similar understanding of the subject. - Attend workshops, seminars, or meetings in relevant fields for professional development. The AHHA 2026 program includes options for onsite and remote project work. This posting is for the remote project track. Interns will complete all work remotely. AHHA 2026 Remote Projects: - 01: Embodied Archives: Connecting Communities to the Katherine Dunham Collection. - 02: On the Digital Campaign Trail: Archiving U.S. Election Websites. The salary is based on locality pay for where remote work is performed. The incumbent of this position will work 20 hours per week, Monday- Friday. Interns must be able to work part of their schedule between 9:30 am & 3:00 pm Eastern Time & attend mandatory orientation on September 8, 2026 (8:30 am-12:00 pm Eastern Time). The position description number for this position is 404851. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. Qualifications - Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. - Must submit resume. - Include a personal email address instead of an edu email address. - Include dates, hours, level of experience and examples for each work experience; volunteer work and roles in community organizations; numbers, percentages and/or dollars that highlight your accomplishments. - Must submit responses to all Vacancy Questions. - Must submit a legible copy of your latest college/university transcripts is required with your online application. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the time of application. - Your transcript will be used to certify your eligibility for the program. - Official transcripts will be required if selected for the position. - Transcripts must be issued by the college or university, and must include your name, the name of the institution, and the courses and course dates. - Must submit names and contact information of two references. - Accepted references are: 1) a professor with knowledge of your qualifications, and 2) a supervisor in your current or former job OR a faculty member familiar with your work. - Letters of Recommendation are NOT REQUIRED for this application. Requirements - Education completed outside the U.S. must be deemed equivalent to conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment. - If your college/university is outside the U.S., your transcripts must be accompanied by a report from a credential evaluation service that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or the Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE). - Failure to submit a foreign education evaluation report will result in disqualification of your application. Company Description

Role Description This position is located in the Contracts and Grants Directorate, Chief Operating Officer. The position description number for this position is 362609. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. The incumbent of this position will work a Maixiflex, Compflex or flexitime work schedule. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. - This permanent position is eligible for 100% distant or local telework. - The salary range advertised is for the Washington, DC area and may be adjusted based on the geographic locale of the selected applicant(s). - Selectee(s) will not be eligible for relocation expenses in the event the Library determines the position is no longer suitable for distant telework. - Maintains work logs, tracks assignments, and keeps supervisor informed to ensure timely action, response, or completion. - Provides customer support, receives a variety of requests for program related information or data, and independently gathers data, prepares reports, and makes recommendations to the supervisors consistent with established practices. - Integrates several types of software such as spreadsheet, database, or word processing to generate specific working documents and forms and reports. - Selects an appropriate application and format for producing program support materials to meet specific requirements. - Tracks the status of contracts and orders using the Library's financial system and corresponding paper files through contacts with contract staff, contracting officer representatives, financial points of contact and contractors. - Assembles contract file information and enters data into the Library's financial system. - Gathers and consolidates procurement information to assemble and prepare management reports. - Recommends and assists in the development of automated procurement procedures. - Reviews reports and researches errors or conflicting information in procurement documentation. - Reviews contract files for inclusion of specific documents or clauses as defined in procedures. - Checks invoices against contracts to confirm administrative information and contract terms are consistent with standard policies and federal databases (e.g. Momentum, System for Award Management, etc.). - Investigates and resolves routine or recurring discrepancies related to item and/or price differences, obligations and expenditures, quantities, and similar problems. - Identifies the reason for the discrepancy and initiates action to correct records and documents. - Reviews offers for a variety of commercial items and indicates whether exceptions were taken to solicitation terms and conditions and whether offerors have submitted all required information. - Selects and completes appropriate form letter for use to notify offerors of award, non-selection, late submission, or other formal communications. - Prepares, verifies, and closes-out procurement documents, files, reports, or records in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Library procedures. - The incumbent communicates with Library service units and contractors to confirm that performance is complete and final payment has been made and initiates the close-out action in the Library's financial system. - The incumbent prepares the file for archival storage and stores in accordance with NARA regulations and Library procedures. Qualifications - Ability to provide procurement and contract administration support. - Ability to provide office systems support. - Ability to plan and organize work assignments and set priorities in order to meet deadlines. - Ability to interact with others. - Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing. Requirements - Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana. - The Library is part of the Federal Government and abides by federal law, so regardless of individual state or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment at the Library. - In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment. Benefits - A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. - As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. - Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.