This position is located in Visitor and Resource Protection, in the Office of Risk Management Division. The National Park Service's Office of Risk Management (ORM) provides management direction, policy, oversight, and technical assistance for a variety of national programs relating to employee and visitor safety. The Chief, Office of Risk Management, under the general direction of the Deputy Associate Director, Visitor and Resource Protection, serves as the senior manager for the ORM.

Duties

The duties of this position include but are not limited to: Sets/recommends the strategic direction for the Office of Risk Management, which provides oversight and guidance for Public Risk Management, Wellness and Resilience, and Occupational Safety and Health branches. Provides programmatic leadership of the Services' Industrial Hygiene, Operational Leadership, Occupational Safety, Serious Accident Investigations, Dive Safety, Employee Wellness, Mental Health and Resilience, Injury Prevention, and Transportation Safety programs. Develops, interprets, and implements Servicewide policies, standards and procedures, and provides effective and timely communications and oversight of their implementation. This includes Reference Manuals, Directors Orders, and Field Guides. Performs crucial assignments tasked to the Directorate by Departmental and Agency career and political leadership. Assuring consistency with policy objectives and goals involving the most fundamental issues in support of the mission of the Directorate and the NPS, which are highly important and diversified in scope. Provides advice/counsel to NPS leadership on Occupational Safety and Health, Public Risk, and Wellness and Resilience issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/26/2024-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. EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is experience that equips the applicant with particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of this position. Experience at this level must include all of the following: (1) knowledge of analytical and/or evaluative methods, principles, and practices sufficient to develop new approaches to improve accountability and effectiveness of Service wide operations, policies, and functions; (2) skill to plan, organize, and direct work and to negotiate effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations; and (3) mastery of or expert analyst in the application of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of program effectiveness.. You must include hours per week worked. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week. 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 Visitor and Resource Protection 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 US
• Name: Washington Office
• Email: [email protected]