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The incumbent serves as the Assistant Fire Management Officer for the following Park Service units; Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera National Preserve, Pecos National Historical Park and Fort Union National Monument. This is a full-time permanent position.
Major Duties
The Assistant Fire Management Officer supports the Fire Management Officer with all phases of the fire management program, including planning, program direction, coordination and evaluation. The AFMO supervises a Type 6 engine module, NPS helitack personnel on an interagency helitack crew, and a fuels tech. The AFMO helps the FMO ensure that the fire management program is in compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Works to coordinate program activities with federal, state, tribal and local government entities/agencies. Coordinates and initiates all fire management activities based on firefighter and public safety, cost effectiveness, and values to be protected consistent with resource objectives, by using the full range of strategic and tactical options.
The position will be duty stationed at an interagency facility located on Department of Energy property in Los Alamos, NM.
Bandelier National Monument, located on the slopes of the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico, is a 33,000+ acre monument established to protect the Ancestral Pueblo sites found here. Bandelier includes a designated wilderness area of 23,267 acres and an 800-acre detached archeological section. The Monument preserves numerous archeological features of a late prehistoric period, which represents the transition of the Pueblo Indians from the prehistoric Ancestral Puebloan to modern traditions. Annual visitation exceeds 200,000. Bandelier is located 45 miles from Santa Fe, 32 miles from Espanola, and 12 miles from Los Alamos. The terrain is rugged but beautiful, from 5,300 to 10,199 feet with headquarters located at 6,000 feet. Summers are hot with afternoon thunderstorms being common in late summer. Good medical facilities, schools, and shopping are available in Los Alamos and White Rock. Local cost of living is considered high. For more information about the park visit: http://www.nps.gov/band/
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-02/13/2020-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect either full-time or 40 hours per week. If a part-time work schedule is reflected, the hours must be annotated to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Selective Factor: Candidates must possess a minimum of 90-days of wildland firefighting experience, gained through fire line work in containment, control, suppression or use of wildland fire. You must clearly demonstrate this experience in your resume, including the months, days and hours per week at which the work was performed in order to be considered. - AND - This occupation has specific educational requirements. It is your responsibility to show how you satisfy the course requirements for the series you are applying for. If you do not provide information that clearly shows how your completed college course work meets all of the requirements, you will be rated ineligible. Your rating will be based solely on the information you submit with your application. No attempts will be made to verify with you, or the school you attended, whether or not your course work meets all of the requirements. YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF ALL YOUR COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS. If selected, a copy of your official transcripts will be required.
Basic Education: Successful completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a Bachelor's or higher degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. The following additional subject fields have been determined to be acceptable as directly related degree programs for fire management jobs in this series: wildland fire management, forestry agronomy, biochemistry, biometrics, ecology, fishery biology, general fish and wildlife administration, horticulture, natural resources management, physiology, plant physiology, rangeland management, soil science, wildlife biology, zoology, agriculture extension, animal science, botany, entomology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, plant pathology, plant protection and quarantine, soil conservation, toxicology, wildlife refuge management. In addition, natural resources related disciplines include chemistry, environmental sciences (not environmental or natural resources policy), hydrology, outdoor recreation if it has a natural resources emphasis, physics, fire management, earth sciences, geology, meteorology related weather, climate, physical geography if it has a natural resources emphasis, and watershed management.
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Possess a combination of education and experience, which included courses equivalent to a major (24 semester hours or equivalent) as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education to total four years. The nature and quality of this course work must have been such that it would serve as a prerequisite for more advance study in the field or subject-matter area. This means the required course work must show progression beyond the associate degree level in directly related coursework, such that it may be considered to be leading towards a bachelor's degree in the related field.
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In addition to meeting the above Selective Factors, you must also possess one of the following specialized experience or education qualifications: GS-401-11:Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to successfully perform the duties of this position. For this position at the GS-11 level, specialized experience must have included the fire program management elements as described below: (1) Reviewing and evaluating fire management plans for ecological soundness and technical adequacy. (2) Conducting field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken, and; (3) Developing analyses on the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management. In addition to fire program management, experience must have included either: (1) Prescribed fire/fuels management experience in a broad range of activities such as: professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures (e.g., Brown's planar intercept for dead and downed fuels; live fuel loading assessments); analysis of fuel loadings and determination of appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming; land use planning and environmental coordination; evaluation of prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identification of appropriate suppression contingencies in containment is not obtained, or; (2) Fire management operations which has included analyzing and applying fire management strategies; plus experience in at least five of the following activities: mobilization and dispatch coordination; fire prevention and education; training; logistics; equipment development and deployment; fire communications systems; suppression and preparedness; aviation. OR
Education: Possess at least three (3) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a field related to the position being filled as described above. OR
Combination: Possess a combination of education and experience. For example, six months of specialized experience (50% of the experience requirements), and 45 semester hours or 68 quarter hours of graduate education in the fields of study described (50% of the education requirement). Volunteer Experience: 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.
Pay Range
$64,412.00 - $83,734.00