These positions are either located in the Maryland district or Virginia district.The primary goals of the lifeguard operation are to prevent drowning within the designated lifeguard area, to provide appropriate medical care to ill and injured visitors and to respond appropriately to incidents outside of the lifeguard area. The position serves as a Surf Lifeguard at one of two protected beach units. The purpose of the position is to provide protection to visitors and to the resources.

Duties

This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants will be referred periodically throughout the announcement period. Final application disposition will be completed once all positions have been filled or the announcement reaches the end of the open period stated in the announcement. The first cut-off date is 11/24/2023 at 11:59 pm In this position, the employee receives a variety of training on the functions and responsibilities of a surf lifeguard related to visitor education, visitor protection and protection of the resources. The incumbent receives over 100 hours of pre-season training which includes EMS training, surf lifeguards skills training and physical fitness training. Additionally, the employee is required to perform in-service training two times daily and completes a broad variety of safety training. The employee learns the skills of surf lifeguard work, learns standard operating procedures, learns how to properly supervise and use safety control measures on an ocean lifeguarded beach, including compliance with rules and regulations, assisting visitors, providing ocean rescue, emergency medical services and search and rescue. The incumbent of the Surf Lifeguard position learns how to supervise park visitors, learns how to apply the principals of lifeguarding in order to manage large beach crowds of people. Once trained, the incumbent performs ocean surf rescues inside and outside the designated lifeguard area and provides appropriate medical care to injured and ill park visitors at the emergency medical responder level or above. Once trained, the employee works as part of a team to conduct search and rescue. The employee has a legal duty to act in emergencies within their scope of training. Employee operates off-road vehicles (ATV's) as one of their means of emergency response. In order to ensure non-degradation of park resources, the incumbent inspects beach areas such as berm, beach face and walkway accesses onto beach. Upon discovery of deficiencies, makes corrections whenever possible. The candidate reports uncorrected deficiencies to appropriate personnel. Once fully trained, the employee provides visitor assistance and emergency response anywhere within the park when called upon. Once trained, employee provides safety contacts and enforcement actions with the visitor. The employee educates, informs and directs visitors on laws, rules, and regulations of the area. Assateague Island's lifeguard operation provides over 7000 visitor safety directions and enforcement actions annually. Once trained, the employee conducts daily assessment of surf zone conditions and weather conditions, collects data, posts data, communicates and interprets information to the public and park staff. The employee provides surf safety interpretive presentations to the public throughout the summer which are presentation designed to educate the visiting public on the various hazards one may encounter in the surf zone or at the beach and educate visitors on how to assess the risks and avoid the dangers. The employee educates and directs visitors on park policies dealing with human / wildlife interaction. Incumbent is responsible for ensuring that all articles found by lifeguard employees are reported on a Form No. 10-166 (Lost-Found Report), are safeguarded and turned in to the responsible person in charge as soon as possible. Lost-Found Reports will be filled out accurately and completely. Responsible for accurate documentation on to daily head lifeguard report, daily stand report, beach information signs and case incident records. Documents all protected beach and first aid incidents on the appropriate forms according to federal and agency guidelines. The employee inspects and maintains assigned equipment and ensures that it is ready for immediate use and stores equipment properly at the end of the day.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-06/28/2024-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. To qualify for this position at the GS-03 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: Have six months of general experience. General experience is (1) any type of work that demonstrates the applicant's ability to perform the work of the position, or (2) experience that provided a familiarity with the subject matter or processes of the broad subject area of the occupation. Examples include working as at the YMCA, counselor at a summer camp, work as a leader with Boy Scout/Girl Scout clubs etc. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Have successfully completed one year above high school. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business or technical school, junior college, college, or university for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite. One year of full-time undergraduate study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business or technical school. IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: If you are using education to qualify you must document your degree in your resume. You must submit a copy of your transcripts, or a complete list of college courses taken that identifies for each course the college or university, semester or quarter hours earned, grade received, and date completed. We cannot determine eligibility without this information. (A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty if you are selected). You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION: Have a combination of work experience and education which added together would equal 100 percent of the needed qualifications for the position. 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.

Contacts

• Address Assateague Island National Seashore 7206 National Seashore Lane Berlin, MD 21811 US
• Name: Mary Dignard
• Phone: 978-895-0319
• Email: [email protected]