This position is located in Glacier National Park, in the Visitor and Resource Protection Division. Duty Location: Location Negotiable After Selection, United States, restricted to the following locations: West Glacier, Montana St. Mary, Montana Open to the first 30 applicants or until 06/10/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

Coordinate the work of non-law enforcement wilderness park rangers, volunteers, interns, youth groups, community work crews, and other nonfederal employees whose assignments are seasonal or project-based. Monitor the work performed by others, provide feedback on these activities, and recommend individual or program improvements. As a program supervisor, the incumbent is responsible for distributing and balancing the workload among volunteers, student interns and other wilderness staff and assures timely accomplishment of tasks. Additionally, they will report the status and progress of work, track and make adjustments to the workflow to accomplish priorities and projects. Hires, performs/conducts performance evaluations, to include recognition for exceptional work and potential disciplinary action, counseling and career planning, position description review, goal, and objective setting, and reviewing and updating of performance standards. Serve as an authority on wilderness and backcountry resources for Glacier National Park. Explain, teach, and interpret the specific values, components, and compliance of wilderness as it relates to the Park's mission and goals to others. Also serves as an authority for the Park's wild and scenic river resources and the outstandingly remarkable values of the system. Develop training programs and prepares new or revised guidelines and operating procedures that deal with topics such as wilderness stewardship, permitting, and resource protection. Independently perform a full range of non-commissioned visitor and resource protection activities throughout the parks in a front-county, wilderness, and backcountry settings. Conduct patrols of remote wilderness and backcountry areas by foot, mountain bike, climbing, flatwater and whitewater boats for enforcement, protection, and inspection purposes. Education and patrol efforts are focused on interpreting and informing visitors about the significance of wilderness character and stewardship, park resources, resource conservation, ecologically sound park use practices, and the provisions of law and regulations necessary to protect park resources. Serve as a member of all-risk operations including search and rescue, swiftwater, wildlife management, and EMS. Performs emergency medical treatment at the First Responder (FR) or Wilderness First Responder (WFR) or higher level of training and responsibility. Coordinate training, update emergency services plans, and communicate and coordinate with outside and community agencies that provide assistance in an emergency response.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-06/10/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. 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: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: (1) training, mentoring, and providing leadership to wilderness park rangers; (2) promoting visitor safety through education and outreach; (3) educating visitors on laws, rules, and policy for use of park resources, wilderness and backcountry, and wilderness stewardship and character preservation; (4) assisting with implementation of hazard operations, emergency response, bear, and other wildlife management. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Master's degree related to the occupation in 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. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of specialized experience as described in A and graduate education as described in B that, when combined, equals 100% of the total requirement. Please note that only education in excess of the first 18 semester hours may be used in this calculation. You must include 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 Glacier National Park PO Box 128 West Glacier, MT 59936 US
• Name: Victoria Barela
• Phone: (505) 988-6808
• Email: [email protected]