Lead Writer-Editor

Lead Writer-Editor Legislive Branch Library of Congress Summary This position is loced in the Publishing Office, Center for Exhibits and Interpretion, Chief of Staff, Office Of The Librarian. The position description number for this position is 377756. The salary range indiced reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. The incumbent of this position will work a flexitime work schedule. This is a non-supervisory, non-bargaining unit position. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced in the Publishing Office, Center for Exhibits and Interpretion, Chief of Staff, Office Of The Librarian. The position description number for this position is 377756. The salary range indiced reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. The incumbent of this position will work a flexitime work schedule. This is a non-supervisory, non-bargaining unit position. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/04/2026 to 05/15/2026 Salary $121,785

• $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion Washington, DC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent
• Position Work schedule Full-time
• Flexitime.

Service Excepted Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) 1082 Writing And Editing Supervisory stus No Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Announcement number

VAR003339

Control number 867770200 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Clarificion from the agency

INTERNAL EMPLOYEES

• CONSIDERATION

UNDER THIS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT IS LIMITED TO THE PERMANENT AND INDEFINITE STAFF OF

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OF STAFF

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TO BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS. TEMPORARY NOT-TO-EXCEED

(NTE)

AND INDEFINITE NOT-TO-EXCEED

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EMPLOYEES ARE INELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

(EMPLOYEES

MUST MAINTAIN ELIGIBILITY AT THE TIME OF SELECTION.

) Duties Help The position is loced in the Publishing Office of the Center for Exhibits and Interpretion in the Office of the Librarian. The incumbent will report to the Director of Publishing. The incumbent serves as a Team Lead and works closely with the Director of Publishing and ensures th the editorial operion of the Library of Congress Publishing Office follows best practices in research, scholarship, writing and publishing. The incumbent oversees the editorial work of staff writer-editors, editorial assistants, freelancers, temporary employees, interns and fellows, guiding their projects and professional interactions with authors, co-publishers, Library staff and other stakeholders in the Library's cooperive publishing program. The incumbent oversees editorial content for a diverse portfolio of publishing projects th include books written by Publishing Office writer-editors, books written by other Library Staff, and books written by authors who do not work for the Library. The portfolio also includes nonbook items with significant editorial content. These items are known within the publishing industry as "sidelines," these products include calendars, note cards, flash cards, puzzles, posters and other products th feure images of Library collections with accure interpretive captions. The incumbent plays an essential role in coordining and balancing a challenging workload among a small staff of experienced writer-editors to meet the Publishing Office's mission of showcasing the collections and services of the Library of Congress with creivity, innovion, accuracy and the highest levels of integrity in scholarship and editorial practice. Serves as a Team Leader. Articules and communices 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 occupional specializion. 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 stus 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, regulions, etc. Prepares reports and maintains records of work accomplishments and administrive informion, as required, and coordines the preparion, presention, and communicion of work-reled informion. Estimes 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 participe in planning for achievement of team goals and objectives. Manages a diverse portfolio of projects assigned to a small staff of writer-editors, editorial assistants, freelancers, occasional employees, interns, and fellows. Consults routinely with the Director of Publishing and editorial staff to ensure th editorial projects are assigned appropriely, managed efficiently, and delivered within established deadlines. Serves as lead editor for select publicions and handles writing assignments as necessary. Works with Director of Publishing, editorial staff, and Administrive specialist to help ensure th print and digital project files include essential records and archives of essential components, including final manuscript, final print-ready PDFs, art logs, permission grants, cition records and other essential research notes, and copies of high-resolution art files. Works with Editorial Assistant to gher and organize files near the completion of each project and with the Administrive Specialist to periodically review/cull files and transfer approprie documents to Records Management. Oversees the Publishing Office project dabase, archives, and library. Works with Editorial Assistant, Administrive Specialist, warehouse, and the Library Shop to monitor inventory of active titles and ensure adeque quantities are on hand for use by the Librarian's Office, the Development Office, Exhibitions, and other stakeholders. Works with Administrive Specialist and others as needed to initie the purchase of additional inventory. Assists Director of Publishing with the development, negotiion, and successful execution of co

• publishing agreements.

Works with the Office of General Counsel to ensure th agreements reflect approprie deadlines for the submission and review of content. Works with administrive specialist to ensure th all contracts are properly distributed and filed. Performs other duties as assigned. Relocion expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Conditions of Employment 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 ste or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment the Library. In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment. Qualificions 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 interact collaborively with others and provide consultion or liaison services to complete publishing projects.

• Ability to lead a team of excellence effectively
• Ability to prepare merials for publicion.
• Ability to apply editorial style guidelines.

Ability to communice effectively in writing. Ability to use informion technology to perform writing duties. Ability to communice effectively other than in writing. Additional informion Although it is the Library's policy to afford the maximum pay benefit to employees when setting res of pay, a new appointee who has had no previous Federal service will generally be paid step one of the grade. The Library of Congress is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants must submit a complete applicion package th is received by the closing de of this announcement. Appointment/retention is subject to a favorable evaluion of an approprie personnel security/suitability investigion. For more informion, please see: Vetting Process This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please email ADA@loc.gov. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion determined on a case-by-case basis. Applicants with disabilities may be considered under special hiring procedures and must submit an approprie certifice of eligibility when applying for this position. The proof or disability/certificion may be issued by the Ste Vocional Rehabilition Office, Disability Services or Career Services office of the applicant's college or university, or the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter must verify th the applicant has a severe disability and must be ded within three years of the de of the applicion. Certificion from health care providers are not accepted. For more informion contact the Library's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity 202-707-6024 or email spp@loc.gov.

FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR CERTIFICATION WILL CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION TO NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE SELECTIVE PLACEMENT PROGRAM.

The Library of Congress is the nional library of the United Stes and is part of the Legislive Branch of the Federal government. As such, all positions are in the excepted service. The Library reserves the right to fill a lesser or greer number of vacancies indiced during the life of this vacancy announcement. Initial permanent appointments to the Library of Congress require completion of a one-year probionary period. Probionary periods served other Federal agencies do not count toward this requirement. The Library of Congress may offer repayment for all or part of federally insured student loans. However, not all service units within the Library of Congress participes in the repayment of federally insured student loans. Therefore, determinion to repay a federally insured student loan is subject to approval by the approprie service unit. A "Not to Exceed" (NTE) stus is used to identify an appointment with a specific ending de. However, the Library has the right to separe a NTE employee any time due to either performance issues or budget constraints. Are you a veteran? Please indice the type of veterans' preference you are claiming in your applicion merials and/or applicant profile and provide the approprie supporting documention to valide your claim. Those applying for 5-point preference must submit Member Copy 4 of your DD 214. Those applying for 10-point preference must fill out an SF-15 (click here for the form) and provide the required documention listed on the back of the form. If required supporting documention is not tached, Veterans' Preference will not be considered in the applicion process. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help 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 th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. The Library of Congress evalues applicants through an applicant questionnaire and a structured interview. Applicants may also be screened for some jobs through licensing, certificion, and/or educion requirements, a narrive/applicion review, and/or a preliminary telephone interview. The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) th are marked with a double asterisk (

• ) in the vacancy announcement and the applicant questionnaire are considered the most critical for a position.

To be considered for final selection, applicants must demonstre fully acceptable experience in these designed KSAs in the narrive/applicion review, preliminary telephone and/or full structured interview. The various assessment tools listed above are designed to verify or explore applicants' experience, knowledge, and training directly reled to the job in order to identify the best qualified applicants for selection. You may preview questions for this vacancy. Benefits Help 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 th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help Your resume should include relevant work experience, applicable educion and your contact informion. For current or previous federal employees, include the pay plan, series and grade. Your SF-50 shows a federal position you've held, grade level and duty locion. Your SF-50 can support position changes, conversions or separion for employment eligibility. Current or former federal employees must submit their most recent Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50 or equivalent). Applicants with disabilities may be considered under special hiring procedures and must submit an approprie certifice of eligibility when applying for this position. The proof or disability/certificion may be issued by the Ste Vocional Rehabilition Office, Disability Services or Career Services office of the applicant's college or university, or the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter must verify th the applicant has a severe disability and must be ded within three years of the de of the applicion. The program does not accept certificion from health care providers. For more informion contact the Library's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity 202-707-6024 or email spp@loc.gov.

FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR CERTIFICATION WILL CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION TO NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE SELECTIVE PLACEMENT PROGRAM.

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please carefully follow all instructions under the How to Apply tab to ensure you are considered for the position. 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 applicion process. When the applicion system prompts, please proceed to the agency site to complete your applicion. You are required to apply online for this announcement. We are unable to accept mailed or emailed documents. You must complete the entire applicion process, including submission of all documents BEFORE this announcement closes. To do so, complete the following steps. Step 1: If you do not already have one, cree a resume and upload it to your profile in the "Resume" section. Although you must enter your Social Security Number for USAJOBS, this informion will not be provided to the Library of Congress. Step 2: Review the Job Announcement. We recommend you go to the end of the Qualificion and Evaluion section of the job announcement to preview the online questions th you will answer in Step 4. You may wish to customize your resume to ensure th it supports your responses to these questions. Step 3: Click on the "

APPLY ONLINE

" button to the right of this announcement. Follow USAJOBS' instructions to access your account. You redirected to the Hiring Management website to complete the applicion process. If this is your first time in Hiring Management, you asked to answer questions reled to your eligibility for Federal employment. You able to upde this informion and save it to our account for future announcements. Step 4: Once you have completed the eligibility questions, you taken directly to the vacancy applicion questions. Answer all questions honestly and thoroughly. Step 5: Hiring Management offers one option th will electronically tach your documention to your online applicion once you finish answering the questions in the job announcement. You may electronically upload a document directly from your computer to your applicion. Be certain to review your complete applicion for confirmion of the document uploaded and click on "Finished" to be returned to

USAJOBS. IMPORTANT NOTE

If you have multiple documents of the same kind, e.g. 2 undergradue transcripts from different schools or 2 SF-50s, etc., be sure th they are all in the same file on your computer. If you try uploading them individually, only the last one sent visible in our system. If you have any questions about this informion, please contact the person on this announcement BEFORE the closing de. Step 6: Click on "Finish" after you have completed your applicion. Once you have submitted your applicion, you can check your stus online through your Hiring Management or

MY USAJOBS

account. Your complete online applicion and any required supplemental documention (e.g., SF-50, etc.) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing de of the announcement. It is your responsibility to ensure th all documents are received on time and th the merials are readable. Failure to do so will result in your applicion being excluded from considerion for this announcement. If you are experiencing any technical difficulty with the online process, you

MUST CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACT FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE.

For all technical issues please contact jobhelp@loc.gov , no ler than 4:00pm EST of the Closing De.

REQUESTS FOR EXTENSIONS WILL NOT BE GRANTED.

Agency contact informion Customer Service Center Phone 202-707-5620 Fax 000-000-0000 JobHelp@loc.gov Address

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 101

Independence Ave.

SE LM-107

Washington, District of Columbia 20540 United Stes Next steps Please review our evaluion process under Evaluion. You may check the stus of your applicion for this position any time by logging onto the USAJOBS "My USAJOBS" tab and clicking on "My Applicions." You will receive final notificion via e-mail when the vacancy has been filled. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help Your resume should include relevant work experience, applicable educion and your contact informion. For current or previous federal employees, include the pay plan, series and grade. Your SF-50 shows a federal position you've held, grade level and duty locion. Your SF-50 can support position changes, conversions or separion for employment eligibility. Current or former federal employees must submit their most recent Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50 or equivalent). Applicants with disabilities may be considered under special hiring procedures and must submit an approprie certifice of eligibility when applying for this position. The proof or disability/certificion may be issued by the Ste Vocional Rehabilition Office, Disability Services or Career Services office of the applicant's college or university, or the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter must verify th the applicant has a severe disability and must be ded within three years of the de of the applicion. The program does not accept certificion from health care providers. For more informion contact the Library's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity 202-707-6024 or email spp@loc.gov.

FAILURE TO SUBMIT YOUR CERTIFICATION WILL CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION TO NOT BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE SELECTIVE PLACEMENT PROGRAM.

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please carefully follow all instructions under the How to Apply tab to ensure you are considered for the position. 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 applicion process. When the applicion system prompts, please proceed to the agency site to complete your applicion. You are required to apply online for this announcement. We are unable to accept mailed or emailed documents. You must complete the entire applicion process, including submission of all documents BEFORE this announcement closes. To do so, complete the following steps. Step 1: If you do not already have one, cree a resume and upload it to your profile in the "Resume" section. Although you must enter your Social Security Number for USAJOBS, this informion will not be provided to the Library of Congress. Step 2: Review the Job Announcement. We recommend you go to the end of the Qualificion and Evaluion section of the job announcement to preview the online questions th you will answer in Step 4. You may wish to customize your resume to ensure th it supports your responses to these questions. Step 3: Click on the "

APPLY ONLINE

" button to the right of this announcement. Follow USAJOBS' instructions to access your account. You redirected to the Hiring Management website to complete the applicion process. If this is your first time in Hiring Management, you asked to answer questions reled to your eligibility for Federal employment. You able to upde this informion and save it to our account for future announcements. Step 4: Once you have completed the eligibility questions, you taken directly to the vacancy applicion questions. Answer all questions honestly and thoroughly. Step 5: Hiring Management offers one option th will electronically tach your documention to your online applicion once you finish answering the questions in the job announcement. You may electronically upload a document directly from your computer to your applicion. Be certain to review your complete applicion for confirmion of the document uploaded and click on "Finished" to be returned to

USAJOBS. IMPORTANT NOTE

If you have multiple documents of the same kind, e.g. 2 undergradue transcripts from different schools or 2 SF-50s, etc., be sure th they are all in the same file on your computer. If you try uploading them individually, only the last one sent visible in our system. If you have any questions about this informion, please contact the person on this announcement BEFORE the closing de. Step 6: Click on "Finish" after you have completed your applicion. Once you have submitted your applicion, you can check your stus online through your Hiring Management or

MY USAJOBS

account. Your complete online applicion and any required supplemental documention (e.g., SF-50, etc.) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing de of the announcement. It is your responsibility to ensure th all documents are received on time and th the merials are readable. Failure to do so will result in your applicion being excluded from considerion for this announcement. If you are experiencing any technical difficulty with the online process, you

MUST CONTACT THE POINT OF CONTACT FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THE CLOSING DATE.

For all technical issues please contact jobhelp@loc.gov , no ler than 4:00pm EST of the Closing De.

REQUESTS FOR EXTENSIONS WILL NOT BE GRANTED.

Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Customer Service Center Phone 202-707-5620 Fax 000-000-0000 JobHelp@loc.gov Address

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 101

Independence Ave.

SE LM-107

Washington, District of Columbia 20540 United Stes Next steps Please review our evaluion process under Evaluion. You may check the stus of your applicion for this position any time by logging onto the USAJOBS "My USAJOBS" tab and clicking on "My Applicions." You will receive final notificion via e-mail when the vacancy has been filled. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/04/2026 to 05/15/2026 Salary $121,785

• $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion Washington, DC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent
• Position Work schedule Full-time
• Flexitime.

Service Excepted Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Announcement number

VAR003339

Control number 867770200