WHO CAN APPLY: All United States Citizens The Northern Rockies SHRO in Yellowstone NP, WY., is accepting electronic applications through USAJOBS, to recruit for three permanent, career-seasonal positions of Park Guide, GS-0090-05. Duty Station: Yellowstone National Park Federal government housing is available.

Duties

Under the guidance and direct supervision of a District Park Ranger (I), these positions are duty stationed throughout Yellowstone National Park. The primary purpose of these positions is to provide guide services to visitors. The work involves giving talks, interpreting natural and historic features, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing miscellaneous services to visitors. Incumbents provide information and orientation to visitors while working in a National Park Service (NPS) visitor center. Makes presentations and other formal interpretive programs, while on roving assignments at critical resource locations. Incumbents present talks, walks, and hikes, using specific NPS interpretive presentation methods and techniques on a broad variety of natural and cultural interpretive themes, established by the park. This work is accomplished following standard operating procedures (SOP), laws, policies, guidelines, and an established safety program. Incumbents collect permit and activity fees and issue permits; assist with the recording of statistics and completion of reports; operate desk top, laptop computers using Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint programs. Incumbents will operate government vehicles on a daily basis, i.e., cars, light trucks, and snowmobiles to and from job assignments. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work requires standing for long periods of time, walking for long distances, climbing and descending steep inclines, bending, and lifting moderately heavy items. Mental stress and physical fatigue occur due to high volume of personal contacts, occasional emergency responses, and repetitive nature of interpretive programs. WORK ENVIRONMENT: Work is performed both indoors and outdoors resulting in exposure to a variety of weather conditions. AREA INFORMATION These positions are located throughout Yellowstone National Park. Elevation at the various duty stations range from 5300 feet to 7800 feet. Park Headquarters are located at Mammoth Hot Springs, elevation 6200 feet. Many duty stations are 40-50 miles from the nearest gateway community with services (grocery stores, motels, restaurants, medical offices). Medical clinics are available in the summer at Mammoth Hot Springs, Lake Village, and Old Faithful. Temperatures in the park vary from 30s/40s to 70s/80s Fahrenheit. Park interior roads are not plowed after mid-November and interior duty stations are typically only reachable by snowmobile, November through April. A pool of snowmobiles for personal use is available for interior duty stationed employees on a reservation system where reservations may be affected by other priorities. Medical services, grocery shopping, banking, entertainment, UPS, and other delivery services are NOT available in the winter in the interior of the park. U.S. Postal Service mail is delivered twice a week or less in the winter. Although this isolation is acceptable to some employees, others find it a hardship for themselves and their families. Reassignment to less isolated location is not an option. Housing is available in the interior locations, and may be available at park headquarters. Changes in assigned housing may be possible through Yellowstone's housing bid process. We strongly suggest you thoroughly investigate the winter lifestyle characteristics in Yellowstone National Park interior sites. Federal government housing is available. CAREER SEASONAL: These are permanent positions with a seasonal work schedule and do not provide employment for a full 12-month period. Nonetheless, all benefits apply as for permanent full-time positions. Incumbents will be placed in a nonwork/nonpay status in the months of March and April (approx. 4 weeks) and in the months of November and December (approx. 4 weeks), within the service year date (entrance-on-duty date). While in work/pay status, will work 40 hours per week.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify, you must the U.S. Office of Personnel Managment's (OPM) Qualification Standards which include experience and/or education requirements as listed below and outlined in the Occupational Questionnaire. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-08/12/2023-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. 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. 1. OPM's QUALIFICATION STANDARDS FOR THE PARK GUIDE, GS-0090-05. May qualify based on experience and/or education. If you do not meet this standard, you will be considered not qualified. A. Must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-04 grade level. Specialized experience that has involved oral presentation of historical, scientific, or program information to groups; or developing and/or revising technical, historical, or scientific information for oral presentation to groups. Examples of specialized experience include, but are not limited to, Park Guide or tour leader; naturalist; environmental educator or teacher; or other similar work. OR, B. Must possess four years of education above high school (120 semester hour or 180 quarter hours) leading to a bachelor's degree with courses related to the occupation, such as American history, science, public speaking, parks and recreation, education, or communications. OR, C. Must possess an equivalent combination of education and experience. 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. For example, six months of the specialized experience described in A above (50% of the experience requirement), and 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). CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: You must possess a valid state driver's license by the entrance-on-duty date, if selected. Please include your driver's license state and expiration date in your resume. NOTE: Do not submit photo copies of your license.

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 Yellowstone National Park PO Box 168 Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 US
• Name: Rogelio Herrera
• Phone: (307) 344-2044
• Email: [email protected]