This position may be filled for a six-month seasonal period, but can vary due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: April- May 2024. For more information about this position, please contact [email protected]. For more park(s) information, select "Learn more about this agency" below:

Duties

Be a successful applicant. Watch this 5 minute video to learn how to create a federal resume. Identify, evaluate, monitor, and manage ethnographic resources that are significant to Rocky Mountain National Park and the Southern Rocky Mountains. Implement applied ethnographic projects involving documentary, archival, and collections research; ethnographic overviews and assessments, ethnohistories, and ethnographic and traditional use studies of all types, field studies involving contemporary peoples and communities and their recent past, evaluation of collected data, and professional report writing. Updates and maintains records in Cultural Resources Inventory Systems Ethnographic Resource Inventory (CRIS-ER) for the park. Collaborates with park staff to develop interpretive and educational materials about anthropological/ethnographic resources that is appropriate, accurate, and professional. Develop and maintain liaisons and effective working relationships with park associated groups (such as American Indians and other Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Euro-Americans, Pacific Islanders, Caribbean, and others), individuals, agencies, and the public. Area Information: Established on January 29, 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park is a living showcase of the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. The park embraces 415 square miles of pristine, uninhabited mountains in north-central Colorado and, as such, is one of the most spectacular, yet easily accessible high mountain areas in North America. With elevations ranging from 7,800 feet at park headquarters to 14,259 feet at the summit of Longs Peak, the park has glacier-sculptured valleys, rugged gorges, alpine lakes, and vast areas of alpine tundra. Trail Ridge Road, the highest paved continuous road in the United States, stays above tree line for 11 miles and reaches 12,183 feet in elevation. Elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose, coyotes, and smaller animals are found throughout the park, as well as threatened and endangered species, such as the Greenback Cutthroat Trout and Boreal Toad. Due to the park's easy accessibility to the Front Range communities of Colorado, Rocky experiences over 4 million visitors annually. This position will be filled on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The nearest community is Estes Park, CO, which has K-12 schools, a post office, restaurants, medical facilities, and grocery stores. Denver, CO which has a major airport, cultural events, and several professional sports teams is a two-hour drive away.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/29/2023-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-09 grade level, you must meet both the basic requirements and minimum qualifications by close of the announcement. Basic Requirements: Possess a 4-year degree in anthropology. Please provide all transcripts. -OR- Have a combination of education and experience with courses equivalent to a major, or a combination of courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in anthropology, or related course work, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Please provide all transcripts. -OR- Four years of appropriate experience in anthropology performing research, museum work, or similar professional-level work. You must provide hours per week worked on your resume. Minimum Qualifications: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Receiving advanced formal and on-the-job training in cultural anthropology/ethnography techniques and concepts. Participating in consultations with Native Americans and/or other culturally associated groups on projects. Attending training/education activities that increase the participants understanding of resources in the context of the natural environment or the historical and cultural setting. Writing ethnographic text and letters for higher graded professionals. Identifying cultural and natural resources in the field and understanding their ethnographic importance. Accomplishing more complex oral history/ethnographic projects as a member of a team. Investigating cultural sites, and natural resources to a level adequate to identify, protect, and interpret them properly. Experience equivalent to the GS-07 may be professional work at the developmental or trainee level. Lower graded technician/assistant work alone is not qualifying for this series You must provide hours per week worked on your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least at least 2 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree anthropology or a related field. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that number cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered an academic year of graduate study. Please provide all transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. Only graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. For example, an applicant with 6 months of appropriate experience equivalent to GS-7 (50 percent of the experience requirement for GS-9) and 27 semester hours of appropriate graduate education (50 percent of the education requirement for GS-9, in excess of that required for GS-7) would be qualified for a GS-9 position (assuming that there is no evidence that the attended college or university requires more than 18 semester hours as equivalent to a year of graduate study). Please provide all 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. ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior­ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.

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 Rocky Mountain National Park 1000 Highway 36 Estes Park, CO 80517 US
• Name: Heather Quint
• Email: [email protected]