This position serves as the Superintendent of Cane River Creole National Historical Park located in Natchitoches, Louisiana with responsibility for the preservation, interpretation, maintenance, administration, and the safety and well-being of staff, volunteers, and visitors.

Duties

In oversight of this organization, exercises delegated authority to oversee the overall planning, direction, and timely execution of a program, several program segments (each of which is managed through separate subordinate organizational units), or comparable staff functions, including the development, assignment, and higher level clearance of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of their subordinate organizational units. Responsible for planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating resource management programs (natural and cultural). Interprets and implements Service policies, goals, and objectives. Ensures compliance with existing policies, rules, and regulations. Coordinates land and resource planning and management with representatives of other agencies, Federal, state and local governments, the general public, and with private landholders. Incumbent directs and supervises the full range of planning, organizing, development, control, and evaluation of operations and management programs for the park. Identifies problems and issues, develops issue-oriented objectives applying and interpreting Service and park mandates and policies, incorporates Service objectives, explores and formulates alternative solutions, negotiates conflicts and develops effective agreements. Incumbent represents the National Park Service and the park in primary communications. Sets the tone and expectation for the quality and responsiveness of the necessarily frequent and consistent communications with members of Congress, appropriate Federal, state, and regional and local officials, public and private organizations, and the general public. Incumbent is responsible for overseeing and managing natural and/or cultural resource protection. The incumbent is responsible for developing and implementing processes and actions that promote legal, ethical and conscientious stewardship of the parks' natural and cultural resources. Incumbent manages visitor and resource protection programs, providing overall direction and internal control for high-risk and diverse law enforcement functions. Incumbent sets the direction and standards for the Interpretation and Visitor Services Program that represents major divergent themes including natural, cultural, historic, and recreational. Incumbent takes action to identify, obtain and direct financial and human resources necessary to accomplish the mission of the park. Oversees the implementation/operations of a comprehensive facility management program for constructed assets (including buildings, utility systems, roads, bridges, trails, picnic areas, monuments, and grounds) compliant with regulatory requirements and NPS policies. Incumbent builds coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, to achieve common goals. Provides strategic leadership to park and partners and sets forth an organizational vision that allows the park to uphold its mandate and objectives in a complex and continuously changing environment. Area Information

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/26/2023-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 this position at the GS-13 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience may have been in 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: supervisory oversight of employees responsible for protection, administration, facility maintenance and operations, and visitor service duties; administrative program oversight and accountability; law enforcement or investigative work; natural or cultural preservation management; community partnership facilitation; communication and public trust duties; project management and team accountability; forestry and/or fire management; program specialist work involving the development and implementation of policy related to protection, conservation, or management of park areas or similar operations; or similar work. 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

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Interior Region 2 100 Alabama Street Building 1924 Atlanta, GA 30303 US
• Name: Christine Jewett
• Phone: (000) 000-0000
• Email: [email protected]