Visual Information Specialist

Full Job Description

See below for important information regarding this job. To qualify for a Visual Information Specialist your resume and supporting documentation must support: A.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position.

To qualify at the GS-11 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement.

Creditable specialized experience includes: Developing original designs, concepts, or visual styles for publications, exhibits, or presentation materials.

Using Microsoft Office products, graphic design, desktop publishing and engraving software programs in order to provide visual information services.

Communicating with various personnel in coordination of exhibit production. B.

Education Substitution: Such graduate education must include the following major studies: commercial art, fine arts, art history, industrial design, architecture, drafting, interior design, photography, visual communication, or other fields related to the position.

.Education must be from a college or university accredited by an organization approved by the U.S. Department of Education. See http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx.

If using education to meet basic qualifications, YOU MUST SUBMIT A TRANSCRIPT as supplemental documentation. To qualify based on education in lieu of specialized experience, you must possess a Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. C.

Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for grade levels GS-11 and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages.

The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grade GS-11.

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. Major Duties:

• Provides the full range of visual information services to both the public and internal audiences of the Defense Logistics Agency HQ and its 10 tenant agencies.
• Meets with clients to preplan and design original concepts for DLA publications, presentations, and exhibits.
• Develops an accurate and comprehensive creative plan for the visual information aspect of projects requiring the approval of the customer.
• Uses Adobe Design Suite software and graphics applications to conceive, design, and develop original and/or new material for publications, presentations, and exhibits.
• Uses comprehensive and specialized knowledge of contemporary exhibit design, display, fabrication, and presentation.
• Provides technical and procedural guidance to field office specialists.