This position is located in Russell Cave National Monument, in the Interpretation and Resource Mangement Division supporting Russell Cave NM and Little River Canyon National Preserve. Open to the first 100 applicants or until 11/03/2023 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

As a Supervisory Park Range (I), you will perform the following duties: Plans, budgets, develops and executes multi-faceted interpretive, education and visitor services programs. Directly supervises a team consisting of multiple park rangers, park guides, resource management, and interns. Defines objectives, develops methodologies, establishes priorities, and prepares schedules for the performance of assigned work for subordinates. Ensures effective scheduling of operational hours for Visitor Centers, programs, and tours and special interpretive events. Manages an educational, interpretive and visitor services program creatively using a wide variety of traditional and contemporary educational media, strategically delivering messages to diverse audiences. Manages the Volunteers in Parks program for the site. Carries out program management responsibilities by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and proposals and/or grants to justify funding requests and to accomplish goals.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/03/2023-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-11 grade level, you must possess one of the following Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: Experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled. This 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 qualifying specialized experience include, but are not limited to, the following: Park guide or tour leader; 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 EDUCATION: Successful completion of three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in an accredited educational institution, related to the occupation. Major study - natural resource management, natural sciences, earth sciences, history, archeology, 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. Course work in fields other than those specified may be accepted if it clearly provides applicants with the background of knowledge and skills necessary for successful job performance in the position to be filled. You must include transcripts. OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first 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.

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

Contacts

• Address Russell Cave National Monument 3729 County Road Bridgeport, AL 35740 US
• Name: Bridget Cheely
• Phone: (000) 000-0000
• Email: [email protected]