This career/career-conditional permanent full-time position is located in Shenandoah National Park, and serves as the Natural and Cultural Resources Division Chief.

Duties

This position serves as the Chief, Natural and Cultural Resources Division for Shenandoah National Park and is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive integrated natural and cultural resource program in all aspects including inventory and monitoring, restoration, rehabilitation, research, and maintenance of natural ecosystem processes and cultural resources. Participates as a key member of the Park's Senior Leadership Team serving as principal advisor on all matters related to management and preservation of the natural and cultural resources. Provides professional support to include responsibility and direction for supervision, planning, implementation, and coordination of activities. The Resources Division takes the lead in protecting significant cultural resources throughout the park including a National Historic Landmark District (all of Skyline Drive) listed on the National Register of Historic Places; a structure individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places; 500 historic structures; including 360 buildings and structures listed on the List of Classified Structures; 577 significant, recorded archeological sites, 11 of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places; more than 100 historic cemeteries; and over 420,000 items in archival and museum storage. Duties include: Perform natural and cultural resources project planning, design, and/or management in keeping with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policies and guidelines. (Please specify this experience in your resume.) Establish and maintain effective working relationships that foster open communication upward, downward, and at peer levels with staff, regional office staff, partner agencies, and other groups and organizations to ensure that program objectives are well understood and achieved as efficiently and effectively as possible. Manage through subordinate supervisors a complex resource management portfolio which consists of multiple program areas, including cultural and natural resources, museums, environmental compliance, permitting, and land use planning. Develops and implements a comprehensive integrated natural and cultural resource program in all aspects including inventory and monitoring, restoration, rehabilitation, research, and maintenance of natural ecosystem processes and cultural resources. Participates as a key member of the Park's Senior Leadership Team; serving as principal science advisor to park managers on all matters related to management and preservation of the park's natural and cultural resources; providing professional support to include responsibility and direction for supervision, planning, implementation, and coordination of activities. POSITION LOCATION: Shenandoah National Park is located approximately 90 miles southwest of Washington, DC. It consists of approximately 200,000 acres of land including 80,000 acres of congressionally designated wilderness, the 105-mile-long historic Skyline Drive, and 101 miles of Appalachian Trail. Annual visitation fluctuates near 1 .6 million, which has direct and extensive impacts on the surrounding area (8 counties and 9 municipalities). The park's natural, cultural, and recreational resources are of vital interest to local and regional businesses, political leaders, conservation and outdoor recreation organizations and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/31/2023. 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. In order to qualify for this Interdisciplinary Supervisor position you must meet at least one of the basic series requirements described below. YOU MUST INCLUDE A COPY OF YOUR TRANSCRIPTS TO DOCUMENT HOW YOU MEET THE BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT. Basic Requirement (Biologist) GS-0401: Degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. -OR- Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major, as shown in basic requirements for 0401 series above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirement (Ecologist) GS-0408: Degree in biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences. There hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences. -AND- To qualify for this position at the GS-13 grade level, you must also possess the following specialized experience by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 level in the Federal service which is in or related to the position to be filled and which provided the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Interdisciplinary Supervisor (Chief of Natural and Cultural Resources). Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: extensive knowledge of planning and management requirements and guidelines to provide adequate long-term protection for resources and exhibits, working familiarity with the theories, principles, techniques and practice of park and land use planning, cultural and natural resources management; understanding of cultural resource disciplines as it relates to resource management; expertise in applying professional knowledge of the park natural and cultural resource management, including, as appropriate but not limited to history, archeology, historic structures, ethnography, cultural landscapes, natural and cultural museum collections, archives, botany, wildlife biology, ecology, hydrology, land management physical sciences; extensive knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations relating to the preservation and protection of the natural and cultural resources, including NEPA and NHPA; and experience in applying concepts, principles, and practices of preservation (as laid out in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties). 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.

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the grade level of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Shenandoah National Park 3655 Hwy 211 East Luray, VA 22835 US
• Name: Debbie Truax
• Phone: 540-999-3500 (3479)
• Email: [email protected]