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This position serves as Assistant Fire Management Officer (AFMO) located at Glacier National Park and is responsible for assisting the Fire Management Officer (FMO) in providing leadership and program direction for the park's fire and aviation management program. Park housing may be available. This is a full-time permanent position.
Major Duties
The AFMO assists the Fire Management Officer (FMO) in planning, developing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating an integrated fire management program to achieve resource management objectives. The incumbent is responsible for the review of planned suppression actions, tactical plans, and strategies for the management of wildland fires. Directs and coordinates subordinate staff consisting of a fuels program and suppression program. This position provides leadership of the park's fuels management program including planning, implementing, and evaluating the fuels program to achieve specific ecosystem and resource management objectives. Assists with fire program budgets, ensures fiscal accountability, coordinates wildland fire activities with neighboring federal, state, and local agencies/entities, represents the park on interagency committees and working groups, initiates cooperative agreements. Ensures agency wildland fire policies are met. Deals with a variety of complex technical problems relating to fire weather, smoke management, fire behavior, and computer modeling. Develops alternative solutions for management. Develops and revises, as needed, appropriate position management and organization plans. Hires, counsels, evaluates and disciplines employees. Provides leadership in the fire safety program and instills risk management principles in all program activities.
Provides wildland fire technical assistance to Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site and Big Hole National Battlefield.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-02/26/2020-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: 90 Day WLFF Experience: A minimum of 90 days of wildland firefighting experience is required to meet qualifications for secondary (administrative) covered positions. The Department of Interior defines wildland firefighting experience as: On-the-line wildland firefighting experience gained through containment, control, suppression, or use of wildland fire. This experience can be met by serving in a temporary, seasonal, or equivalent private sector fire position for no less than 90 days. Periods of wildland firefighting experience, gained through militia and rural fire departments, can also be credited, as long as the total amount of this experience equates to at least 90 days. Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fires as follows: Wildfire: Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires. Prescribed Fires: Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting experience. 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 - Basic Education: This occupation has specific educational requirements. It is your responsibility to show how you satisfy the course requirements for the series(s) 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 ALL YOUR COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS. 0401 -
possess a 4-year degree in the biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources management, chemistry or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
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a combination of education and qualifying experience which included courses equivalent to a major (24 semester hours or equivalent) as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education which totals four years. To satisfy this requirement, the nature and quality of this course work must have been such that it would serve as a prerequisite for more advanced 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 biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources management, chemistry or related disciplines. In addition, to qualify for this position, you must possess the following specialized experience: GS-0401-11:
Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Experience must have included ALL of the fire program management elements described as: 1) developing, reviewing and evaluating fire management plans for ecological soundness or consistency with land management goals and/or potentially adverse impacts to cultural and natural resources; 2) conducting field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or evaluating the effectiveness of actions taken; and 3) analyzing the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management. IN ADDITION to fire program management elements listed above, appropriate experience must have included EITHER prescribed fire/fuels management - OR - fire management operations. 1) Prescribed fire/fuels management: examples include: performing professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures, (e.g. Brown's planar intercept for dead and down fuels; live fuel loading assessments); analyzing fuel loadings and determining appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming; performing land use planning and environmental coordination; and/or evaluating prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identifying appropriate suppression contingencies if fire containment is not obtained; -OR- 2) Fire Management Operations: experience in analyzing and/or applying fire management strategies in at least five of the following activities: a) Mobilization and/or dispatch coordination; b) Fire prevention and education; c) Training; d) Logistics; e) Equipment development and deployment; f) Fire communication systems; g) Suppression and preparedness; h) Aviation.
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.
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
$64,009.00 - $83,210.00