Job opening: Park Ranger (I)
Salary: $37 696 - 49 009 per year
Published at: Jul 14 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
Open to the first 35 applicants or until 07/20/2023 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.
Duties
MAJOR DUTY STATEMENTS
Interpretation and Communication: Develops and presents formal interpretive experiences to engage the public, makes informal visitor contacts, produces a variety of interpretive media, and engages with various audiences through digital content.
Visitor Services and Facility Operation: Coordinates day-to-day operation of visitor facility, including developing work schedules, answering visitor questions, demonstrating effective customer service, providing visitor information through interpretive media, assessing facilities, and reporting damage or malfunctions.
Training and Education: Develops lesson plans for curriculum based education, delivers education programs in schools and in park, and coaches, mentors, or trains other park staff, interns, volunteers, or partners.
Partner and Community Engagement: Maintains working relationships with organizations such as academic institutions and local government agencies, engages new audiences and communities, and represents the park in community events.
Statistical Reporting and Analysis: Tracks, reports, and analyzes visitor use statistics to improve visitor services and recommends changes to procedures, interpretive products, and visitor services in response to suggestions, complaints and evolving visitor use patterns.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/20/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.
For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.
Screen out Factor: This position has a mandatory requirement that applicants must possess conversational fluency in the Spanish Language. (IMPORTANT: If you select this response, your resume must describe your proficiency level).
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: technical, administrative or scientific work; fish and wildlife management, recreation management, law enforcement, or other park related work. Examples of specialized experience include, but are not limited to, park guide or tour leader; environmental educator or teacher; law enforcement or investigative work; archeological or historical preservation research work; forestry and/or fire management work in a park, recreation, or conservation area; management, assistant, or program specialist work involving the development and implementation of policy related to protection, conservation, or management of park areas or similar operations; or other similar work. You must include hours per week worked.
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EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least four years of education above high school (120 semester hours or 180 quarter hours) leading to a bachelor's degree with 24 semester hours of course work in a related field. Related fields of study include natural resource management, natural sciences, earth sciences, history, archaeology, anthropology, park and recreation management, law enforcement/police science, social sciences, museum sciences, business administration, public administration, behavioral sciences, sociology, or other closely related subjects pertinent to the management and protection of natural and cultural resources. You must include transcripts.
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Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take 3 years of college study from an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education) which included at least 12 semester hours of related coursework as specified in B above (50% of the related coursework required). NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to l year of specialized experience. Then take the number of months of full time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts.
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.
Education
To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an
accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
If you are using
education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
Contacts
- Address Chamizal National Memorial
800 South San Marcial Street
El Paso, TX 79905-7273
US
- Name: David Valdez
- Email: [email protected]
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