This position located in Grand Canyon National Park, in the Division of Planning, Environment, and Projects. Please visit find a park for additional park information.

Duties

Lead the park in its efforts to prepare, coordinate and manage community and transportation planning efforts, as well as recreation, visitor use management, resource and backcountry management planning efforts, as needed. This also includes implementation of the South Rim Visitor Transportation Plan, Transportation System Needs Assessment, South Rim/Tusayan Multimodal Transportation Action Plan, and other associated planning or policy documents. Coordinate efforts and acts as the NPS liaison with local city/county/state governments, Native American tribes, among other entities and stakeholders. Build coalitions and lead teams to improve recreational travel access, community asset strategies, visitor use/recreation management, and resource management in the Grand Canyon region as it relates to the visiting public, various stakeholders, and area residents. Implement and manage community, transportation, and other planning projects on the North and South Rims of Grand Canyon National Park. This will include housing and asset utilization planning, visitor use management planning, development concept planning, and transportation systems, including multimodal systems; parking and traffic/congestion management; emerging fuel and fleet technologies; and emerging bicycling trends, including e-bikes and bike sharing, among other planning needs. Coordinate work with other divisions and seeks ways to improve productivity and quality. Provide professional planning support and program management oversight for one or more projects from inception through completion. Those services include draft and technical consultations; completion of planning documents, identifying and obtaining appropriate funding for planning efforts, technical review of documents produced by others, and project monitoring. Perform the full range of supervisory duties for a staff of five or more professional employees. Assign work based on park priorities and in consideration of the difficulty of the work and capabilities of employees. Prioritize work, develops performances standards, and evaluates performance. Approve leave; provide necessary training (or ensures it's provided by others); interview applicants and recommend selections for vacancies. Recommend promotions and awards; effects minor disciplinary measures and deals substantively with performance concerns. Physical Demands: Most of the work is performed in an office setting. The work is primarily office based and sedentary, although some walking or hiking in outdoor settings and walking along roads, trails, bridges and on occasionally, extreme environmental conditions and bending is required when engaged in planning field activities. Carrying of light items and driving an automobile are required. Mentally stressful and taxing situations are occasionally present, due to the sometimes sensitive and controversial nature of the work. Working Conditions: The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions, typical of such places as offices, park sites and facilities and vehicles. Work is normally performed in an office setting and may require regular and recurring meetings with other organizations, which will involve travel throughout the city, region, and state and, at times, out of state. Work outdoors may involve different types of terrain, climate, altitudes, and exposure other hazards requiring caution. Attendance at meetings will be required at various times of day and may require attendance at evening meetings, particularly when dealing with local agencies, organizations and neighborhood groups. The incumbent must be capable of extensive writing, review, and drafting of documents and graphics within a compressed period of time.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the Basic Requirement and additional specialized experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. A copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application. BASIC REQUIREMENT: 1. Bachelor's degree (or higher) in community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, and urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance. (NOTE: You must provide a copy of your transcripts.) Note: Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have 12 semester hours of specified course work must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner. (NOTE: You must provide a copy of your transcripts and your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience.) OR 2. A combination of education and experience - courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning; plus, appropriate experience or additional education. (NOTE: You must provide a copy of your transcripts and your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience.) -AND- ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required specialized experience for the respective grade level(s) in which you are applying: Specialized Experience GS-12: Applicants must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained either in the private or public sectors) performing the following: (1) supervising or leading a staff of three or more professional employees in park planning, policy, and program management/development; (2) serving as a planning team Lead or supervising multidisciplinary teams of professionals and/or responsible for a variety of comprehensive planning projects and studies (e.g., general management plans, development plans, transportation plans, community plans, foundation statements, special resource studies, wilderness studies and regional plans) and related environmental documents (e.g., environmental impact statements or environmental assessments); (3) preparing planning documents, including scoping newsletters, foundation statements, project planning reports, analysis and summary of public comments, and summary and completion plans; (4) maintaining relationship between an organization, state, local, and other federal agencies. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-11 is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-12 level. (Must submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. No award SF-50 will be accepted). Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement. IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). 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. 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".

Education

Basic Requirement:
To meet the basic requirement of 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.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.


There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level of this announcement.

Contacts

• Address Grand Canyon National Park PO Box 129 20 South Entrance Road Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 US
• Name: San Antonio Services Branch
• Phone: 816-541-8101
• Email: [email protected]