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A relocation/recruitment incentive may be authorized. This position will manage a prescribed fire and fuels program for the North Rim of Grand Canyon NP and the North Kaibab Ranger District (North Zone). No government housing is available.
Major Duties
Manages a prescribed fire and fuels program for the North Rim of Grand Canyon NP and the North Kaibab Ranger District (North Zone).Provides direction and supervision for a Fuels Assistant Fire Management Officer (AFMO), Wage Grade Equipment Operator, Fire Prevention Technician and one Engine. Develop long-term fuels program strategies, and develop and/or review all fire/fuels related project plans for the North Zone. Serve as an inter-disciplinary team leader and/or team member on NEPA planning projects. Manage an interagency zone smoke management program. Manage a portion of the National Park Service (NPS) and United States Forest Service (USFS) fire budget that includes funding for staff salaries/support, prescribed fire and fuels treatment activities, special projects, and other fuels funded personnel. Provide consistent and positive communication with NPS, USFS, United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) staff. Participate with wildfire planning and strategy meetings. Provide guidance and expertise to wildland fire management teams on "in-zone" wildfires. Participate with the implementation and planning of wildland fires. Participate in leadership roles on wildfires and prescribed fires.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
Area Information: The area is rural in character with full-service communities nearby. The North Kaibab Ranger Station is located in Fredonia, Arizona. Fredonia's population is approximately 1,500, with K-12 schools, a post office, churches, several small motels, gas stations and in some years a restaurant. Kanab, Utah, seven miles north of Fredonia, has approximately 5,000 residents. It offers K-12 schools, a post office, two grocery stores, several motels and restaurants, a movie theatre, a playhouse, a hospital, a number of churches, miscellaneous retail stores, and a community chorus and orchestra.
Larger communities such as Page, Arizona (90 miles east) and St. George, Utah (80 miles west) offer additional shopping, larger medical facilities, malls and commercial airports for smaller aircraft. Federal land management agencies and Native American tribes play a prominent role in the area. The district is bordered by Grand Canyon National Park to the south, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (BLM) to the east, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (BLM) and Zion National Park to the north, and the Arizona Strip (BLM) to the west. The Kaibab Band of Paiutes reservation is located just west of Fredonia.
Climate depends on elevation. Summers are generally sunny and hot, ranging from average highs of 90 to 100 degrees in Fredonia, Kanab and the lower red rock elevations, to a delightful 70 to 80 degrees in the higher elevations of the forest. The southwestern monsoon season delivers summer thunderstorms and rain from early July through early September. Winters are mild at the lower elevations (4700 feet) in our communities, with highs in the 30s and 40s, and lows in the teens and 20s. Higher elevations on the forest often see four or more feet of snow. Rental houses and apartments are available in Fredonia and Kanab ranging from $600 to $1,200/month.
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The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park is known worldwide for its spectacular beauty and its remote location in Northern Arizona. The fuels on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the North Kaibab Ranger District include ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, spruce/fir, and pinyon-juniper. The North Rim is located approximately 75 miles from Kanab, UT, approximately 225 miles from Flagstaff, AZ and approximately 150 miles from Saint George, UT. Elevations on the Kaibab Plateau range between 5000 feet to above 8500 feet. The North Rim Developed area has limited services.
The North Kaibab Ranger District program areas include forest and rangeland vegetation management, fire/fuels, wildlife, recreation, wilderness and heritage resource management. The district is home to the largest number of northern goshawks in the lower 48 states, a bison herd, California condors, the Kaibab squirrel and a renowned mule deer population, among other wildlife. Key recreation areas on the district include Saddle Mountain and Kanab Creek Wildernesses, the 18-mile Rainbow Rim Trail along the edge of Grand Canyon, and the Great Western and Arizona Trails.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/24/2020-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. This position has been identified as one of the key fire management positions under the Interagency Fire Program management (IFPM) Standard. This position has been categorized as a Prescribed Fire and Fuels Specialist, High Complexity and requires selectee to meet the minimum qualification standards for IFPM prior to being placed into the position. For more information on IFPM, click here. Selective Factors: The applicant must have possessed all of the following National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) incident management qualifications and training requirements to be considered eligible for this position:
1. Primary Core Requirement: Prescribed Fire Burn Boss Type 2 (RXB2)
2. Secondary Core Requirements: Incident Commander Type 3 (ICT3) or Task Force Leader (TFLD) or Helibase Manager (HEBM). Currency is required. You will be required to obtain and maintain currency for the NWCG qualifications listed above. - AND - 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. 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. You must clearly demonstrate this experience in your resume, including the months, days and hours per week at which the work was performed. - AND - Basic Education 0401 Series:
This is a positive education position; it is your responsibility to show how you satisfy the course requirements for this 0401 series. If you do not provide information that clearly shows how your completed college course work meets all 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 your course work meets all the requirements. YOU MUST SUBMIT ALL YOUR COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS. (A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty, if selected).
A. completed a bachelor's or higher degree in the biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources 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, agricultural 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 resource emphasis), physics, fire management, earth sciences, geology, meteorology related weather, climate, physical geography (if it has a natural resource emphasis), and watershed management. OR
B. 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 the requirements, 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 as described above. In addition, to qualify for this position, you must possess at least one or all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: GS-0401-09:
Specialized Experience: at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position must demonstrate an understanding of fire behavior relative to fuels, weather, and topography and how fire affects natural and cultural resources. Examples of experience may include: Wildland fire activities (such as planning and/or implementing prescribed fire or managing wildfire) to ensure resource objectives can be met from a fire management standpoint; Developing and/or implementing initial attack incident management strategies and tactics to meet the stated resource objectives; Implementing mitigation measures during wildland fire activities to protect sensitive habitats, endangered species, sensitive plants, or cultural values. OR
Education: a master's or equivalent graduate degree in a field related to the position being filled as described above. OR
Combination: a combination of the required education and 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. OR
Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a field related to the position being filled as described above. OR
Combination: a combination of education and experience.
Pay Range
$52,905.00 - $83,210.00