Program Manager for Museum Initiatives

Program Manager for Museum Initiives Nional Foundion on the Arts and the Humanities Nional Endowment for the Arts Office of Programs and Partnerships Summary This position is loced within the office of Programs & Partnerships (P&P), within the Visual Arts division the Nional Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The incumbent reports to the Division Coordinor and works closely with the Senior Program Director in their efforts to provide nional leadership and direction for the assigned discipline(s). Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced within the office of Programs & Partnerships (P&P), within the Visual Arts division the Nional Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The incumbent reports to the Division Coordinor and works closely with the Senior Program Director in their efforts to provide nional leadership and direction for the assigned discipline(s). Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/06/2026 to 05/10/2026 Salary $121,785 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) 1109 Grants Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Other Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Trust determinion process Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus Yes Announcement number

IMP-12949264-26-CC

Control number 867919200 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency This position is open to current and permanent employees of the Nional Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and individuals eligible under Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP). Duties Help In this position, you will serve as Program Manager for Museum Initiives.

Typical work assignments include:

Managing the Blue Star Museums program, including agreements, timelines, deliverables, partner coordinion, and participant support. Leading nional museum recruitment to expand and diversify program participion. Serving as the main liaison to museums, military families, partner organizions, and NEA offices; support communicions and program outreach. Supporting leadership initiives in the museum field, including convenings, webinars, cooperive agreements, and agency represention. Reviewing and processing grant applicions for assigned disciplines, ensuring eligibility, compliance, panel coordinion, and applicant communicion. Providing museum-field expertise to inform policies, guideline revisions, reports, and cross-agency initiives. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probionary period. Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required Stus Candides must submit an SF-50 and recent appraisal. Stus candides must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks the next lower grade level). Time-in-Grade must be met by the closing de of the announcement Only experience obtained by the closing de of this announcement Qualificions Applicants must demonstre th they meet the Specialized Experience requirements as noted below. In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the following specialized experience requirement: Specialized Experience for this GS-13: You qualify for this GS-13 grade level (starting salary $121,785) if you possess one year of specialized experience in the Federal service or equivalent public or prive sector experience a level comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 grade level performing all of the following duties: Managing museum-reled programs or initiives including the coordinion of timelines, deliverables, and partner communicions. Providing liaison or customer service support to museums, cultural organizions, or similar entities by responding to inquiries, assisting with program participion, or contributing to outreach and communicion merials. Checking eligibility, completeness, and compliance with guidelines for grant or applicion review processes. Assisting with leadership or program initiives such as meetings, webinars, cooperive agreements, or ghering informion for reports or surveys. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluing your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they rele to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. Your resume must demonstre least one year of specialized experience or equivalent to the advertised grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the prive or public sector. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the des worked and total number of hours per week. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (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 th transles directly to paid employment. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS resume temple. However, if you do not use the temple you must ensure th your resume contains ALL required informion which includes hours worked, starting & ending month and year, and if Federal employment (series, pay plan, and grade).

Current or Former Political Appointees :

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office. Educion Educion cannot be used to qualify for this position. Additional informion Additional selections may be made from this vacancy. Identificion of promotion potential in this announcement does not constitute a commitment or an obligion of management to promote the employee selected some future de. If you are claiming CTAP eligibility, you must submit proof by 05/10/2026 th you meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(a) for CTAP or you will not receive priority considerion. The proof includes a copy of the agency notice, your most recent Performance Ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty stion. To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority of this vacancy, you must earn a minimum score of 85 (prior to the assignment of veteran's preference) on the ring criteria for this position. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online if all possible. Applying online, through your USAJOBS account, will expedite the applicion process and allow you to check your applicion stus as well as verify the documention submitted with your applicion. All documents must be received by 05/10/2026. If you are unable to apply online please contact SAG-Mailbox@opm.gov. If you are selected for this Federal position, you required to complete a "Declarion of Federal Employment", (OF-306), prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigion. Failure to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false stements on the applicion may be grounds for not hiring you or dismissing you after you begin work, and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1001). Reasonable Accommodion (RA)

Requests:

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments . ( https://appsupport-usastaffing.opm.gov/hc/en-us/sections/45063131363475-Reasonable-Accommodion-Informion ) 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. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the applicion questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. Names of all candides in the best qualified cegory sent to the hiring official for employment considerion You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Attention to Detail Customer Service Flexibility Influencing/Negotiing Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Decision Making Reading Comprehension The USA Hire Assessments includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. Candides who apply under Competitive Merit Promotion procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are best qualified based on the content of their resume and their responses to the questionnaire. Best qualified candides referred if all required supporting documention has been provided. Candides who apply under Noncompetitive and Special Hiring Authorities procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are minimally qualified based on the content of their resume, supporting documention submitted and their responses to the assessment questionnaire. Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP)

Eligibles:

If you have never worked for the federal government, you are not CTAP eligible. View informion about CTAP eligibility here . To be considered well qualified under CTAP, you must be red a minimum score of 85 for this position. In addition, you must submit the supporting documents listed under the required documents section of this announcement. 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes one or more of the following documents. Documents and must be received by the closing de of this announcement: Your RESUME (2-page limit) showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Your responses to the job questionnaire and the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment A copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) or a list of coursework with hours completed, if applicable. Cover letter, optional A copy of your recent performance appraisal. SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action showing title, series, grade and Competitive stus AND stus as a current NEA employee: An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your applicion merials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 th clearly demonstres one-year time-in-grade Award 50's d not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade. Examples of approprie SF-50's include: Within grade increases the highest grade held; or Promotions with an effective de more than one year old; or SF-50's the highest grade held with an effective de more than one year old. If your applicion is red as well-qualified (score 85 or above) and you are claiming special priority selection rights under the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) submit: a copy of your agency notice, a copy of your most recent performance ring, and a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, noting your current position, grade level, and duty locion. If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found here . ( https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodions_for_USA_Hire ) 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 read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments, and required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 2 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=USA_Hire_Assessments . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. If you need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Agency contact informion Staff Acquisition SAG-Mailbox@opm.gov Address Office of Programs and Partnerships 400 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20506 US Next steps Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessment. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. Your assessment result kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings.

You contacted directly if an interview is required. Stay informed of changes to your applicion stus by signing up for automic email alerts https://www.usajobs.gov/Applicant/Applicion/ListApplicions. 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes one or more of the following documents. Documents and must be received by the closing de of this announcement: Your RESUME (2-page limit) showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end des (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed educion and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion de). Your responses to the job questionnaire and the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment A copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) or a list of coursework with hours completed, if applicable. Cover letter, optional A copy of your recent performance appraisal. SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action showing title, series, grade and Competitive stus AND stus as a current NEA employee: An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your applicion merials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 th clearly demonstres one-year time-in-grade Award 50's d not provide sufficient informion and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade. Examples of approprie SF-50's include: Within grade increases the highest grade held; or Promotions with an effective de more than one year old; or SF-50's the highest grade held with an effective de more than one year old. If your applicion is red as well-qualified (score 85 or above) and you are claiming special priority selection rights under the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) submit: a copy of your agency notice, a copy of your most recent performance ring, and a copy of your most recent SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, noting your current position, grade level, and duty locion. If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found here . ( https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodions_for_USA_Hire ) 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 read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments, and required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 2 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. For more general informion, system requirements, reasonable accommodion informion, and to request assistance regarding the USA Hire Assessments, review the following resources: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=USA_Hire_Assessments . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus : Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. If you need help with login.gov or USAJOBS (e.g., account access, Resume Builder) the

USAJOBS Help Center:

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/ If you experience difficulty applying on USAJOBS, after clicking the Apply Online button, or you are experiencing a significant hardship hindering your ability to apply online, the Agency Contact listed in the announcement can assist you during normal business hours. If you receive any system error messages, take screenshots if possible, to aid technical support. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Staff Acquisition SAG-Mailbox@opm.gov Address Office of Programs and Partnerships 400 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20506 US Next steps Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessment. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. The stus of your applicion upded in USAJOBS as it is evalued. Your assessment result kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments. You can check the stus by logging into USAJOBS. You may also sign up to receive automic emails anytime the stus of your applicion changes by logging into your USAJobs Account and editing the Notificion Settings.

You contacted directly if an interview is required. Stay informed of changes to your applicion stus by signing up for automic email alerts https://www.usajobs.gov/Applicant/Applicion/ListApplicions. 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 05/06/2026 to 05/10/2026 Salary $121,785 - $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade GS 13 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 13 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

IMP-12949264-26-CC

Control number 867919200