This position is located in Kenai Fjords National Park, in the Resources Division. This is a permanent, career or career-conditional position in the competitive service. Government housing is NOT available for this position.

Duties

This position is located in Seward Alaska, at Kenai Fjords National Park and serves as the Director of Resource Management. This position also serves as the senior principal advisor in the management of natural and cultural resources and is responsible for program development and implementation. Professional fields of study and expertise must be pertinent to the park's resources and themes and may include, but are not limited to, archeology, cultural anthropology, biology, wildlife management, and physical sciences. This position reports to the Superintendent and leads the Park's Resources Division. This position supervises a team that includes three GS-11 employees who respectively lead the Ecology, Physical Sciences, Cultural Resources, and one GS-9 Visitor Impact/Exotic Plants programs specialist as well as up to nine seasonal employees and interns. This position will supervise staff and projects within the Resources Division; evaluating performance; keeping track of program and project budgets; and ensuring the safety of staff engaged in complex operations including aviation, marine boating, glacier travel and other fieldwork. This position serves as the Resources Division representative on Kenai Fjords National Park Management Team, alongside the Oceans Alaska Science and Learning Center, Facilities and Maintenance, Interpretation and Education, Administration and Visitor & Resource Protection Divisions. This position will provide leadership and coordination of Kenai Fjords' environmental and cultural resource compliance obligations as needed. This position serves as the park lead for tribal consultation, abandoned mine lands cleanup, and park planning. This individual also serves as the park point of contact for the Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring program. The selectee will serve in a rotation as needed as the Acting Park Superintendent. The selectee will supervise or conduct field work in inclement weather, often from a boat or aircraft, and may be subject to dangerous wildlife, biting insects, or smoky conditions. Hiking over rough, slippery terrain for extended periods, with substantial elevation change will be required. The position requires travel in the backcountry and to distant locations to attend meetings. The selectee will represent the Superintendent in public meetings and in consultation with other agencies or tribes. For more information about the duties of this position contact [email protected]. .

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/24/2023-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 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying 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. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying 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. To qualify for the Anthropologist (GS 0190) position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: a degree in an appropriate field of anthropology. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major, or a combination of courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in an appropriate field of anthropology, or related course work, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- Experience: four years of appropriate experience in anthropology performing research, museum work, or similar professional-level work. You must include hours worked per week in your resume. To qualify for the Archeologist (GS 0193) position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: a degree that included 3 semester hours in each of the following course areas: history of archeology, archeology of a geographical area such as North America or Africa; Regional archeology, archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development; Theory and methods of archeology. Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques; Archeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work. AND: Six semester hours of related course work in geography, geology or cultural geography; history, historiography or historical archeology; environmental studies; scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or surveying and Archeological field school. You must include transcripts. -OR- EDUCATION: degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements in A.1 (including archeological field school). -OR- EXPERIENCE: Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology. The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school. Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials. Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project. OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE College-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described in A above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week. To qualify for the Biologist (GS 0401) position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: a degree in one of the following: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines. You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week. To qualify for the Physical Scientist (GS 1301) position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: a degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. You must include transcripts -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week. IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE QUALIFICATIONS LISTED ABOVE YOU MUST ALSO MEET THE FOLLOWING SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE( for Supervisory Anthropologist, Archeologist, Biologist, and Physical Scientist): At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes providing planning, leadership, coordination, and direction to a natural and cultural resources program including: vegetation resources; wildlife management; water quality and fisheries resources; physiographic and geologic resources; archaeological resources; ethnographic resources; historic resources; historic structures and landscapes, museum operations, long term ecological monitoring program, and air quality. You must include hours worked per week in your resume. 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 Kenai Fjords National Park P O Box 1727 Seward, AK 99664 US
• Name: Carolyn Byrd
• Phone: (907) 887-3925
• Email: [email protected]