This position is located on the Rocky Mountain Region, Region 2. This position serves as Regional Staff Director for Recreation, Wilderness, and Heritage Resources. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Jason Robertson at 303-275-5470 or [email protected].

Duties

Serve as regional staff director for recreation, wilderness, heritage, and volunteers. Integrate recreation, wilderness and heritage resource programs with other resource management programs to achieve mission goals. Study major state and federal legislation or proposed legislation for impact on regional recreation, wilderness, rivers and trails, visitor information systems, heritage resources and land use to identify policy and program impact. Conduct program reviews and assistance trips to national forests to assess compliance with policies, objectives, and standards, increase effectiveness of operations or correct practices that do not conform to policies, standards, or regulations. Develop new policies and manual directives to implement national recreation, wilderness, heritage and volunteers goals. Represent the agency at national, international, multi-state, and other meetings of various interest groups and governmental or private entities. Plan the work to be accomplished by the unit by assigning work to employees and establishing production or quality standards for the units work.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Subject to one-year supervisory probationary period (unless prior service is creditable). New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required new supervisory training program before the end of their probationary period.

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. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-14 grade level: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as the following: Performed analytical, planning, and evaluative assignments concerned with the administrative and operational aspects of organizations, programs, services and management; planned and conducted administrative and management, studies, evaluations, and improvement projects; developed long- and short-range plans to include programming, budgeting, integrating, and evaluating complex programs for the agency; Initiated and lead high priority special projects, studies, and initiatives encompassing difficult and diverse functions or issues that affected critical aspects of major agency programs 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.

Education

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]