This position is located at Denali National Park and Preserve in the Ranger Division. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately mid-February to mid-October, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year. Government housing is not available.

Duties

This position is located in the South District of Denali National Park and Preserve in Talkeetna, which provides resource and visitor protection throughout back country and mountainous areas of the park. We are seeking energetic employees with diverse skills, a team-oriented approach, and a commitment to practicing the ranger profession in a park with both opportunities and challenges. Responsibilities will include a full range of duties resource protection and education, search and rescue, emergency medical services, backcountry management, visitor use management and special park issues. The incumbent of this position will implement resource management and visitor protection programs involving mountaineering in the Alaska Range, seasonal river use, sport hunting and fishing, subsistence use in the Park additions, and providing assistance in various natural science projects. Duties will include staffing the 7200-foot base camp on the Kahiltna Glacier, leading high altitude rescue operations involving high altitude technical climbing, use of emergency medical techniques, coordination of helicopter and fixed wing aircraft, and coordination of other rescue work from numerous agencies and sources. Between 25-30 day backcountry/mountain patrols may be required.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/29/2024-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. You must meet the following Selective Factors/Screen Outs. Candidates who do not meet these requirements by close of this announcement (unless otherwise stated) will receive no further consideration for this position. Mountaineering and Climbing (screen out): You must have experience in high altitude mountaineering and technical climbing that includes having led or guided a minimum of two (2) mountaineering expeditions that reached 17,200 ft, or higher, one of which must have been on Denali (Mt. McKinley). This experience must have been gained as a guide, assistant guide, trip leader, or search and rescue member and cannot have been obtained by being a trip participant or client on a guided expedition. You must list previous climbs that you have led, and your climbing/mountaineering experience and altitudes reached in your resume, or you will be rated ineligible. -AND- Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Paramedic (EMTP) or higher-level medication certification (screen out): You must have an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Paramedic (EMTP) or higher-level medical certification and training by entrance on duty (EOD) date. Include a copy of your certificate showing the level and expiration date or list your medical certification AND expiration date in your resume, or the date you anticipate completing your course for certification. If you do not include this information, you will be rated ineligible. -AND- Avalanche Certification (screen out): You must have an Avalanche Level 2 or Professional Level 1, or higher level of avalanche certification and training by entrance on duty (EOD) date. Include a copy of your certificate or list your avalanche certification in your resume, or the date you anticipate completing your course for certification. If you do not include this information, you will be rated ineligible. -AND- To qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-7 level in the federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to successfully perform the duties of this position. Examples of specialized experience include high-altitude technical climbing; gathering, compiling and reporting mountaineering and resource management data; and visitor assistance in a park or recreation area. You must include hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: Two full years of graduate study or a master's or equivalent graduate degree in one of the following fields: natural resource management, natural sciences, earth sciences, history, archeology, anthropology, park and recreation management, law enforcement/police science, social sciences, museum sciences, business administration, public administration, behavioral sciences, sociology, or other closely related subjects pertinent to the management and protection of natural and cultural resources. Course work in fields other than those specified may be accepted if it clearly provides applicants with the background of knowledge and skills necessary for successful job performance in the position to be filled. (One year of graduate education is 18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours.) You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION OF SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: A combination of specialized experience and graduate level education. To calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education, divide your number of semester hours in excess of 18 semester hours by 18 or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. To calculate your percentage of experience, divide your months of qualifying specialized experience by 12. Add the two percentages. They must equal at least 100% to qualify using this option. You must include hours worked per week in your resume and a copy of your 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 Denali National Park and Preserve P O Box 9 Denali Park, AK 99755 US
• Name: Christina Sanchez
• Phone: (907) 644-3354
• Email: [email protected]