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This position is located on Deschutes National Forest; Central Oregon Fire Management Services; Bend, OR. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Doug Johnson at doug.johnson@usda.gov and 541-383-5582.
Major Duties
- Responsible for facilitating, coordinating and documenting FPU(s) processes, decisions and results among the FPU(s) partners.
- Facilitates the resolution of conflicts among partner agencies related to FPA including determination of attribute weights and resource and budget allocations.
- Manage consolidated data sets required to run FPA. Manage spatial and tabular data for FPUs within their area of responsibility (e.g., historic: fire occurrence, weather, fuels treatments; weights; and current fuels data).
- Responsible for developing, acquiring, and consolidating interagency data and ensuring the quality of all data.
- Perform FPA for FPU(s) within their area of responsibility to meet established schedules.
- Responsible for producing reports and distributing summaries of FPA outputs to agencies, partners and interested parties.
- Maintain currency in FPA processes by attending appropriate FPA and related discipline training (e.g., GIS, computer analysis software, fire behavior).
- Responsible for scheduling and conducting formal and informal FPA training and serves as instructor and/or coach of FPA classes at the regional/state and local levels.
- Responsible for ensuring that the FPU(s) budget request is formally submitted to the national database.
- Monitor interagency fire management programs to determine whether resources were allocated and implemented as agreed upon the by FPU(s) governing board(s) and notifies the governing board of deviations.
- As necessary, provides the governing board with alternatives to address changes that have occurred following budget submission.
- performs FPA for FPU(s) within their area of responsibility to meet established schedules.
- Duties listed are at the full performance level.
Qualifications
You must possess the Basic Requirements identified below to be considered eligible for this position. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Specialized experience is defined as experience that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Your application or resume must clearly show that you possess the appropriate experience requirements. Basic Requirements: A. Degree: Biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources management, chemistry or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
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Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major course of study in biological sciences,
agriculture or natural resources management, chemistry or at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, natural resources, wildland fire management, forestry, or agriculture equivalent to a major field of study, plus appropriate experience or additional education that is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in the biological sciences, agriculture, or natural resources. In addition to the basic requirements described above, you must meet the following experience. Your application or resume must clearly show that you possess the specialized experience requirements. Specialized experience is defined as experience that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. GS-11: One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level. Experience must have included all of the fire program management elements as described below: - Reviewing and evaluating fire management plans for ecological soundness and technical adequacy;
- 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
- Developing analyses on the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management. 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., Brown's planar intercept for dead and down fuels; live fuel loading assessments), or Analysis of fuel loadings and determination of appropriate fuel treatment methods and programming or Evaluating prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identify 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 Fire prevention Training Logistics Equipment development and deployment Fire communications systems Suppression and preparedness Aviation 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. 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. 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. 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
$62,236.00 - $80,912.00