This position is located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, in the Natural & Cultural Resources Division.

Duties

Major Duties: - This position interprets and applies the laws and policies governing cultural resources within national parks and the State, including the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGRPA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). - The incumbent coordinates NHPA Section 106 compliance for all park projects and prepares and finalizes Planning, Environment, and Public Comment (PEPC) documentation. The incumbent will maintain liaison with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Native American and other traditionally associated groups, and other interested parties. - The incumbent will carry out program management duties by writing agreements and contracts and coordinating and managing complex projects that involve multiple partners with government and non-government funding. They will develop and manage a program budget, annual operations planning, work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and funding requests. They will meet all Regional and NPS Cultural Resource reporting requirements. - The incumbent will lead subordinate staff and volunteers, including providing support for employee development. - The incumbent supervises and manages all aspects of the management of the Park's museum collection. This includes annual reporting, documentation, monitoring, preservation, protection, exhibition, and use of park collections whether housed in the park or at an off-site repository according to NPS guidelines. - This position will develop and manage sustainable partnerships for cultural resources preservation and stewardship and communicate complex resources issues to a variety of stakeholders including SHPO, tribes, other agencies, researchers, and the public. - The incumbent identifies research needs and provides oversight for research projects. This position will coordinate baseline documentation of cultural resources, including historic structures, and archeological monitoring, survey, and inventory within the park. Area Information: Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located 27 miles from the city of Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. The Park, at an elevation of 4400 feet, has a semi-arid climate with hot summers, mild winters, abundant sunshine, low humidity, and approximately 10 inches of rainfall per year. Carlsbad (population 29,000) has all amenities and services including medical and dental facilities, motels, banks, restaurants, churches, grocery stores, department stores, and several recreation facilities. Information about Carlsbad and the Carlsbad area can be found at the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. Schools include K-12, and New Mexico State University - Carlsbad Campus. Other services can be found in Albuquerque (280 miles), El Paso, Texas (170 miles), Lubbock, Texas (180 miles), or Midland/Odessa, Texas (150 miles). Recreation opportunities are plentiful with Guadalupe Mountains National Park located 50 miles from the city of Carlsbad, two state parks (Brantley Lake and Living Desert Zoo), and the Lincoln National Forest within an hour's drive.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/24/2024-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. The position has a basic requirement. You must have the required education or equivalent experience to satisfy the basic requirement for this position. Additionally, applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement for this series and grade to be considered qualified. You must meet one of the following Basic Qualifications to be considered for this position. You must meet this by the close of the announcement. This is an interdisciplinary position; therefore, applicants will be considered for a range of occupational fields (occupational series) based on qualifications and experience. Occupational series in which applications will be accepted are outlined below. General Anthropology Series 0190 (opm.gov) Applicants must have one of the following and submit documentation in their application on how they meet this requirement: Degree: appropriate field of anthropology. or Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major, or a combination of courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in an appropriate field of anthropology, or related course work, plus appropriate experience or additional education. or Experience: four years of appropriate experience in anthropology performing research, museum work, or similar professional-level work. Archeology Series 0193 (opm.gov) Applicants must have one of the following and submit documentation in their application on how they meet this requirement: Education Degree that included 3 semester hours each in the following course areas: History of archeology. Archeology of a major geographical area such as North America or Africa. Regional archeology, archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development. Theory and methods of archeology. Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques. Archeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work. and Six semester hours of related course work in: geography, geology, or cultural geography; history, historiography, or historical archeology; environmental studies; scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or surveying; and Archeological field school. Related Curriculum: degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements in 1 (including archeological field school). or Combination of Education and Experience College-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described in 1 above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education. or Experience Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology. The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school. Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials. Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: (1) surveying archaeological site surveys and excavations; (2) completing site description forms and preparing reports based upon research; (3) planning long range plans of the protection and management of cultural resources; and (4) evaluating projects in accordance to NHPA and Section 106 compliance. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least three years (54 semester hours) of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a field directly related to this position such as history, archeology, anthropology, or museum studies. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. For example, I have six months of the specialized experience described (50% of the experience requirement), and 45 semester hours or 68 quarter hours of directly-related graduate level college study as defined above in an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education). 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.

Contacts

• Address Carlsbad Caverns National Park 3225 National Parks Highway Carlsbad, NM 88220 US
• Name: Cori Stonebridge
• Email: [email protected]