This permanent, full-time position serves as Program Manager/Director for Communication & Visitor Experience in the NPS Chesapeake Bay Office. The primary focus of this position is the oversight, direction, and management of all communications and outreach, interpretive and educational strategies, programming and materials, and youth programs.

Duties

MAJOR DUTIES MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LINITED TO THE FOLLOWING: Assists in the development and cultivation of a comprehensive communications and public affairs program for NPS Chesapeake Gateways with responsibility for planning, designing, and executing the park's communications and public affairs to keep the public, media, partners, and communities informed of the activities and developments of NPS Chesapeake Gateways Partnerships and financial and technical assistance projects. Collaborates with other agencies and organizations to develop plans and strategies for communicating the goals for advancing land conservation, public access, outdoor recreation development, interpretation, education, youth, volunteer, and community engagement. Establishes and maintains working relationships and collaborative partnerships with youth conservation corps programs at the local, state, and federal level and private sector to support and expand youth involvement in conservation and stewardship work projects advancing NPS Chesapeake Gateways and partner objectives. Performs diversified professional duties involved in a broad and, in many cases, highly technical variety of problems over a broad geographic area (six states and the District of Columbia). Exercises full range of supervisory responsibilities for interpretation, education, communications, and youth engagement team, supervising a GS-12 Public Affairs Specialist, GS-11 Visual Information Specialist, GS-9 Training Specialist, and a half dozen seasonal or summer youth employees. Directs and manages a comprehensive interpretation program linking and relying upon hundreds of partner sites and institutions spanning multiple states. Develops overall interpretive strategy, goals, and priorities, and guides interpretive planning, development and delivery; analyzes, distills and presents initiatives for a variety of interpretive media products such as orientation and wayside signage, map and guides, digital media and travel guides. Establishes and maintains collaborative partnerships, networks and working relationships with partner sites, institutions, and private sector guides to implement NPS Chesapeake Gateways interpretive goals; establishes effective working relationships with other interpretive professionals, historians, social scientists, and others, both within and outside the Federal Government, to elicit support for, consult on, and obtain information of significant interpretive value to augment and enhance interpretive program offerings.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/06/2023-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 GRADDE LEVEL, YOU MUST POSSESS THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS BY THE CLOSE OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT: SPECIALIZED 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). This experience includes activities such as: Experience in applying professional concepts, principles and practices of public planning, including those related to community planning, outdoor recreation planning, communication and outreach planning, interpretive and educational planning as applied to natural, cultural, or recreational resource management, programming and materials, and youth programs, outdoor recreation and public access development, and educational programs. Experience managing through subordinates a comprehensive interpretation, education, youth, volunteer and community engagement program related to a broad range of cultural and natural resources and topics, such as history, archaeology, architecture, ethnography, ecology, environmental science, etc.; evaluating interpretive operations for quality and adherence to agency policies, guidelines, and practices, and to determine the effectiveness of current policies and practices; providing advice, guidance, and coordination to staff for the planning, development, and operation of interpretive facilities such as museums, exhibits, and the development of interpretation and education programs; skills in the management and development of innovative solutions for interpretive and visitor services programs, including short-term and long-range planning, interpretive media development, coordinating special emphasis and environmental education programs, collaborating with others or working on teams to plan park programs, develop budgets, and to accomplish mission goals; managing the development of interpretive media including wayside exhibits, publications, graphic identity, park signage, audiovisual, interactive and electronic media, and web pages. (YOU MUST INCLUDE HOURS PER WEEK WORKED). 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 Chesapeake Bay Office 1750 Forest Drive Suite 140 Annapolis, MD 21401 US
• Name: Marcia Mims-Washington
• Phone: 267-638-1570
• Email: [email protected]