This position is located in Interior Region 3, 4 and 5, in the Park Operations and Education Division. A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled to the lowest step of the grade selected. Display of a salary range is not an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. Open to the first 101 applicants or until 06/18/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

The incumbent provides leadership and support to regional program chiefs, park superintendents, park program managers, network safety staff, and park collateral duty safety officers to assist them in planning and executing their programs in a manner consistent with regional safety, health, and wellness objectives and requirements. The incumbent develops a variety of policies, programs, and actions, utilizing expert skills-in leadership, communication, and culture change. This position will require frequent travel within the region and occasionally outside the region for training, meetings, and assistance responsibilities. The placement of this position as part of the Regional Director's senior staff requires that the incumbent be well versed in overall National Park Service mission, strategic objectives, and management systems, and ensures that high level strategic decisions within the region are reviewed at the earliest stages for their potential impact on employee safety, health, and wellness. Work units affected by this program include approximately 2,500 employees, thousands of volunteers, construction and service contractors, concessioners and job corps centers and enrollees. The 64 MWR units are located throughout thirteen Midwestern United States including Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The NPS safety, health, and wellness programs are complex and involve many specialized and often diverse and hazardous activities occurring in varied and sometimes extreme work environments. Operations include wildland and structural fire prevention and suppression, law enforcement, construction, blasting, aviation, railroad operations, black powder programs, diving and boating, technical search and rescue, heavy equipment and vehicle fleet, solid and hazardous waste handling, hazard tree management, confined space operations, exposure to environmental diseases, handling and working around dangerous wildlife, exposure to blood-borne pathogens, and numerous other hazards associated with park work environments. Work environments consist of indoor and outdoor locations including lakes, rivers, mountains, deserts, laboratories, maintenance and automotive shops, public facilities, roadways and parking lots, curatorial facilities, livestock facilities, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and office buildings. Area Information: The office is located near the Old Market District in downtown Omaha. Housing in the Omaha metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, is plentiful and moderately priced for rental or purchase. Public, private and parochial education opportunities abound. Colleges, universities, technical and business schools, hospitals, churches, and most other amenities are readily available. The mean temperature is 50 degrees, with 87 degrees being the average summer high and 16 degrees the average winter low. Various recreational opportunities are abundant in the area.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-06/18/2024-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-14 grade level, you must possess 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-13 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: 1) coordinating and leading Safety, Occupational Health and Wellness Programs; program initiatives for a resource conservation organization that connects people to the outdoors; 2) managing and leading a Safety, Occupational Health and Wellness program for a resource conservation organization and promoting effective engagement and management practices; 3) advising interdisciplinary staff, facilitating work groups, and supporting partnerships to achieve strategic goals to implement a robust sustained loss control program, promote healthy workplace practices and programs; 4) managing project fund sources using a project-based documentation tool to justify, approve, and prioritize projects for a park, unit, or region - e.g. skill in using the Project Management Information System (PMIS); and 5) serving as a point of contact and providing technical assistance for Park Superintendents, Collateral duty safety officers and staff and individual staff; including communicating program information, best practices, processes, and policy to multiple levels of an organization. You must include start/end dates and 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.

Education

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

Contacts

• Address Interior Region 3, 4 and 5 601 Riverfront Drive Omaha, NE 68102 US
• Name: Abigail Minnick
• Email: [email protected]