This position reports directly to the Superintendent of the park, serving as the principal assistant and advisor for a wide variety of highly complex issues, special projects, and programs. The incumbent has broad responsibility for performing work and coordinating with senior park staff on issues that cross divisional boundaries, are politically sensitive or complex, and significantly affect the long-term management of the park operations and administration.

Duties

Serves as the principal project manager to the superintendent for a broad array of key management issues, particularly those associated with requirements of the park enabling legislation, NPS or park policies, other special mandates, or issues which are otherwise highly visible, politically sensitive, or unusually complex. Represents the Superintendent and serves as a core member of multi-disciplinary teams involved in major park-planning and/or project efforts, typically those that are politically sensitive, high profile, controversial or involve multi-divisional coordination and tracking. Serves as the principal staff action officer for technical and program management actions. Coordinates the senior staff in preparing the Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent for high level conferences, meetings, and Congressional briefings/hearings; serves as the lead and point of contact for organizing, facilitating logistics and IT needs, coordinating agendas, and any necessary preparation of meeting materials. Researches and develops position and strategy papers on a variety of program subject matters that require knowledge of park operations for use by the Superintendent and/or Deputy Superintendent in planning meetings, events, and conferences, developing strategic plans, resolving operational conflicts, and assessing program operations. Supervises the Revenue & Fee Business Manager, Community Engagement & VIP Coordinator, Administrative Support Assistant, and a Project Manager. Assigns work to staff and provides policy direction to their efforts. Evaluates the work performance of subordinate staff members and recommends/approves appropriate awards to enhance effective performance or takes action to deal with inadequate performance, through counseling, training, coaching and other means.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/11/2024-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 grade level, you must possess all 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-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: managing or performing substantial specialized work in a park or similar park and land unit program, in natural and/or cultural resource management, concessions and land management, recreation management, interpretation, law enforcement involving the protection of natural and/or cultural resources, all aspects of administration, construction and maintenance, or other related work. 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 Colonial National Historical Park 1000 Colonial Parkway Yorktown, VA 23690 US
• Name: Lisa Cupp
• Phone: 717-673-5505
• Email: [email protected]