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This is a wildland fire management position at a FS Washington Office as a Fire Management Specialist. Plays a role in technology transfer, decision support & coordinating research needs between scientists and field practitioners. Facilitates communication among wildland fire and fuels managers, fire research scientists, technical specialists and administrators within Federal agencies, states, and other local fire agencies regarding wildland fire and fuels management.
Major Duties
- Assists in providing fire management expertise and data analysis for strategic decision making for unusual and unprecedented problems facing the wildland fire community.
- Facilitates the evaluation and determination of the applicability of technological advances to intelligence aspects and assists unit managers in developing procedures to incorporate them in fire suppression,
- pre-suppression, preparedness, prescribed fire and fuels activities.
- Participates in the analysis of fire management program requirements to design, develop, and implement methods to integrate emerging science and new technologies into national fire management programs.
- Designs demonstration modules, writes and publishes popular articles, technical articles, lesson plans, user guides, and other references that translate research results into practice.
- Facilitates effective communication among wildland fire and fuels managers, fire research scientists, appropriate technical specialists, and agency administrators within the five Federal Fire Management agencies, states,
- and other Federal and local fire agencies regarding wildland fire and fuels management.
- Assists with the development, communication, and implementation of new fire management technology and research results.
- Assists in the design, development, and presentation of regional/national fire and fuels management courses, workshops, distance learning, and continuing education activities.
- Conducts technology transfer activities to inform and train fire and resource management user groups in the implementation and use of knowledge, techniques, and systems developed by fire management research.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Basic Requirement: GS-0401-09/11:
A. Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources management, chemistry, or related discipline appropriate to the position being filled.
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B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below. Specialized Experience Requirement:For GS-9: Experience in at least two of the following three categories: 1. Experience that demonstrated understanding of fire effects on cultural and natural resources. The assignments must have shown participation in activities such as: Developing fire management plans or planning documents to ensure resource objectives can be met from a fire management standpoint; and/or Conducting field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires or fuel treatments to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken 2 Prescribed fire/fuels management - experience in activities such as: Professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures (e.g., Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring; Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity; LANDFIRE (local adjustments based on analyses), or Analysis of fuel loadings and determination of appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming, or Evaluation of prescribed burn plans or fire management planning to ensure fire containment is possible and identification of appropriate suppression contingencies if containment is not obtained. 3. Fire management operations - analyzing and applying fire management strategies, plus experience in at least four of the following activities: Mobilization and dispatch coordination Long term fire modeling assessments Determination of potential benefits from wildfire Analysis of ecological role of fire on a unit Fire prevention Training Logistics Suppression and preparedness For GS-11 and above: Experience must have included all of the fire program management elements as described below: Reviewing and evaluating fire management and planning documents for technical adequacy AND/OR Conducting field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires or fuel treatments to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken; AND/OR Developing analyses on the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion. In addition to fire program management, appropriate experience must have included either prescribed fire/fuels management - or - fire management operations as described below: Prescribed fire/fuels management - experience in a broad range of activities such as: Professional forest or range inventory methods and procedures (e.g., Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring; Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity; LANDFIRE (local adjustments based on analyses), or 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 planning to ensure fire containment is possible and identification of appropriate suppression contingencies if containment is not obtained. Fire management operations - analyzing and applying fire management strategies, plus experience in at least five of the following activities: Mobilization and dispatch coordination Long term fire modeling assessments Determination of potential benefits from wildfire Analysis of ecological role of fire on a unit Determination of ecological departure from historic condition due to fire exclusion and/or land management practices Fire prevention and education Training Logistics Suppression and preparedness Selective Placement Factors A minimum 90 days experience performing on-the-line (Primary/Rigorous) wildland fire suppression duties as a member of an organized fire suppression crew or comparable unit that utilized knowledge of wildland fire suppression, containment or control techniques and practices under various conditions. This experience must be documented with specific dates in the online application or resume. 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. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Position may be filled as career ladder or could be filled at the full performance level dependent upon the individual unit needs. If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is not guaranteed. FIREFIGHTER RETIREMENT COVERAGE: This is a secondary firefighter position under 5 U.S.C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) & 5 U.S.C. 8412 (d) (FERS). It requires wildland firefighting experience. Firefighter retirement coverage of the incumbent depends upon his or her individual work history, i.e. firefighter retirement coverage in this secondary position depends upon the past coverage of the employee. Employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System must have 3 years of service in a primary firefighter position to be covered upon transfer to a secondary position.
Pay Range
$51,440.00 - $73,637.00