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🔗Archival Processing and Cataloging Intern – 640 hours

National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program
The National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE)’s Internship Program is a partnership with the National Park Service and other Federal agencies with cultural resource protection and public land management responsibilities. The purpose of the program is to accomplish needed and important work on federally protected lands while providing program participants with professional experience in their chosen fields. Interns work under the guidance of agency staff who are subject area experts to carry out the mission of the park.
To be eligible, applicants must be between 18 and 30 years old (or 35 if a veteran) when starting the internship, a college student or recent graduate (within the past 12 months at the time of application), enrolled in a degree-seeking program, and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
This summer, the Archival Program of the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Regional Office (SERO) will appraise, process, and catalog an estimated 100 linear foot collection of park lands records each for Cumberland Island National Seashore and Vicksburg National Military Park. An Archives Technician will conduct an appraisal of the records against the Servicewide Records Schedule. The successful candidate(s) will work under the supervision of the Regional Archivist and in collaboration with the project Archives Technician to physically process materials tapped for inclusion in the collection in accordance with best practices and regional specifications.
The work includes physical processing, which will encompass the removal of corroded or otherwise detrimental fasteners and refastening with archival bond paper, encasing photographic materials in inert polymer sleeves, housing compact discs and other electronic media in Tyvek enclosures, identifying materials suitable for separation and housing in map cases or other custom-size archival receptacles, identification and preservation photocopying of unstable media, rehousing archival folders in acid-free boxes, and labeling folders with titles denoting content, date ranges of materials, hierarchical notations, and catalog and collection numbers.
The position requires knowledge and application of archival principles of provenance and original order. Records within must be hierarchically organized in accordance with their office of origination and arranged according to the order in which they were historically stored. The internship will also require an archival description of records groupings processed and inventorying of file units cataloged.
Two 640-hour internships are available and each will receive a travel stipend and housing allowance.
A background security investigation may be required prior to the start date. All NCPE internships accrue 4 hours of PTO for every 80 hours worked.
Qualified NCPE interns who complete their internships may count their position towards earning a Public Land Corps (PLC) Non-Competitive Hiring Authority certificate. Once earned, the PLC certificate may be used to apply for eligible Federal permanent, temporary, or term positions. Visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details about this benefit. Successful completion of the internship does not guarantee Federal employment.