Job opening: Supervisory Visitor Services Assistant (Backcountry Permits)
Salary: $51 713 - 67 231 per year
Published at: Jul 16 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis.
You will work from approximately mid-January to mid-November, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.
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Duties
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Supervise up to 5 positions including planning, scheduling and assigning work; setting goals; approving leave requests; identifying and providing employee and volunteer orientation and training.
Ensure equal opportunity for all employees and volunteers supervised; responsible for on-the-job safety; develop effective working relationships and coordinate work efforts with personnel of other organization units.
Serve as a front-line representative of Glacier National Park. Provide visitors with backcountry recreational opportunities, status of trails, and campground availability. Process and issue Backcountry permits.
Provide public orientation of backcountry regulations, current park events resource management projects and management policies.
Collect appropriate backcountry camping and reservation fees using an electric cash register, computer or point of sales system. Complete shift reports, safeguards funds collected, and prepares remittance reports and bank deposits.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/23/2023-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 full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.
To qualify for this position at the GS-08 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: leading or supervising others collecting fees and/or issuing permits in a recreation setting and advising the public on recreation travel; leading or supervising others operating a backcountry reservation and permitting system; supervising employees in a recreation setting (including outdoor stores); leading or supervising others working in the backcountry and advising the public on backcountry travel; leading or supervising others operating an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) station and performing inspections; or similar work leading or supervising subordinate employees collecting fees and instructing on backcountry travel. You must include hours per week worked.
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.
ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior?ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.
Education
There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.
Contacts
- Address Glacier National Park
PO Box 128
West Glacier, MT 59936
US
- Name: Brock Graves
- Email: [email protected]
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