Supervisory Park Ranger (I) located in Boston National Historical Park, in the Program Director, Interpretation & Visitor Engagement Division. This is a temporary promotion not to exceed 1 year, and can be extended up to 5 years. A temporary promotion may be made permanent without further competition.

Duties

Major Duties: Manage and provide strategic direction for a complex, year-round public engagement and visitor services program across three collectively-administered park units. Create and sustain a work environment that encourages creative thinking and innovation to achieve visitor experience, employee health and wellness and community engagement goals. Strategically manage financial resources to support program areas and foster continuous program improvement and accountability. Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and sustain a comprehensive, accessible and compelling visitor experience program that includes on-site programs and services, digital engagement, community outreach and special events. Serve as lead project manager for research, design and development of interpretive exhibits (e.g., waysides,trip planning kiosks, curated exhbitry) and visitor facilities. Area Information: National Parks of Boston is a constellation of three National Park Service sites - Boston National Historical Park, Boston African American National Historic Site and Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park - collectively managed by a general superintendent. Established by individual legislation and designated purposes, the three units have come together as a unified, relevant and collaborative organizational structure. More commonly, you may know us as the Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown Navy Yard, and Dorchester Heights or our partnerships along Boston's "Trails to Freedom" or our partnership on the Boston Harbor Islands. You may also know us from the Park Ranger uniform, but we also employ a wide variety of employees from across varied career fields. Boston National Historical Park Boston National Historical Park is a unique partnership park that encompasses eight historic sites of national significance associated with the colonial struggle for independence and American ideals of self-determination and civil freedom. The park works collaboratively with federal, municipal and private partners to preserve, protect, and interpret the Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House, Old North Church, Charlestown Navy Yard (including USS Constitution and USS Cassin Young), Bunker Hill Monument and Dorchester Heights. The park also operates two visitor centers and the Bunker Hill Museum. For additional information, please visit www.nps.gov/bost. Boston Area Information Boston, the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is home to more than 600,000 residents. The city encompasses twenty-one diverse neighborhoods and includes exceptional medical facilities, vibrant neighborhood business districts, and a solid network of parks, community centers, and libraries. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, a commuting region that includes the six Massachusetts counties of Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester; all of Rhode Island; and parts of New Hampshire. The City of Boston offers a variety of amenities such as schools, hospitals, restaurants and theaters, museums and shopping facilities. Temperatures range from 90 degrees or more in the summer and from zero to below in winter. Public transportation is available throughout the City of Boston. Experience your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service. Become a part of our mission to unite our past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-04/26/2024-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. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year (52 weeks of full-time work experience) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Experience may have been in technical, administrative, or scientific work, fish and wildlife management, recreation management, law enforcement, or other park related work. Examples of specialized experience include, but are not limited to: 1) Managing a park or museum education program related to a broad range of natural and cultural resources and interpretive or educational themes; 2) Evaluating youth or public engagement operations for quality and adherence to organizational policies, guidelines, and practices, and to determine the effectiveness of current policies and practices; 3) Providing advice, guidance, and coordination to staff for the planning, development, and operation of educational programs, partnerships, facilities and sites used for educational programming; 4) Preparing short and long-range strategic plans and operational work plans; 5) Collaborating with others or working on teams to plan organizational programs and develop budgets and to accomplish mission goals; 6) Developing new procedures and systems to maximize organizational efficiencies to achieve outcomes. 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. The employees of the National Park Service care for special places that are the heritage of all Americans. Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service has been dedicated to the preservation and management of this country's outstanding natural, historical, and recreational resources. Park ranger - interpreters connect people to parks. They play a key role in ensuring that visitors have a meaningful, satisfying, and safe park experience, help visitors decide how to spend their time in the park, and inform them about the wonders that await their discovery. Park ranger - interpreters are specially trained to engage the public so that each park visitor can find a personal connection with the meanings and values found in the places and stories of that park. They help visitors explore the many dimensions of parks by introducing them to a variety of perspectives. By providing the opportunity for visitors to care about the places they visit, they promote stewardship and the opportunity for those visitors to care for park resources. National parks are among the most remarkable places in America for recreation, learning, and inspiration. The work done by park ranger-interpreters through effective interpretive and educational programs encourages the development of a personal stewardship ethic and broadens public support for preserving and protecting park resources, so that they may be enjoyed by present and future generations.

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Boston National Historical Park Charlestown Navy Yard Building I Boston, MA 02129-4543 US
• Name: Carlee Murphy
• Phone: 267-678-3670
• Email: [email protected]