Provide guide services to visitors. The work involves giving talks, interpreting natural and historic features, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing miscellaneous services to visitors. 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 11.5 months, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

Duties

Primarily provides pre-established programs normally following a prescribed outline and requiring application of broad subject-matter knowledge of the features of interest peculiar to the site. Such programs include detailed and specific interpretation and explanation of the outstanding features of the site from the standpoint of scientific or historical interest, the background of events leading up to the natural feature or phenomenon, the facts, events, personalities and circumstances. Answers a wide variety of visitor questions for groups (of up to 50 people) in situations where: the physical limitations of the area or facility being explained make it difficult to accommodate the party on trips of two or more hours duration; the work situation is such that there is potential danger of serious accidents or injury or other emergency situations; or the trips are of several hours duration, and teams of guides are utilized. Operates the park visitor center, remits donation box monies, tracks park statistics, and ensures visitor safety. Uses a variety of audio-visual equipment and computer software programs. Additional duties at FOSC: Opens and secures the site and performs basic resource protection tasks including exotic plant control and routine cleaning of museum objects and exhibit spaces. Is a lead member of the park's historic weapons team. Inventories, cleans, and maintains the parks accountable property in the Living History clothing program. The season is expected to last approximately 11.5 months, beginning late January to early January. The employee is expected to be in non-duty/non-pay status the middle of January. FORT SCOTT AREA: Fort Scott, population 8000, is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas. The town offers basic shopping and groceries, several medical and dental clinics, public and private primary and secondary schools and a community college. A four-year university is located in Pittsburg, Kansas, less than 30 miles away. Kansas City is 90 miles north with an abundance of shopping, entertainment and cultural activity opportunities. Climate is considered moderate, with high temperatures in the summer ranging from 80 to 100 (F), lows in the winter from 10 to 30 (F). There is a variety of housing available in Fort Scott and the surrounding communities for rent or purchase. Government housing is not available. BUFFALO AREA: Buffalo National River was established in 1972 as the country's first national river. The park protects 135 miles of river from near its origin in the Boston Mountains to the confluence with the White River in Northwest Arkansas. Nearly 100,000 acres in size, roughly one third of the park's land base is designated wilderness. Heavily wooded and extremely rugged terrain is found throughout the park along with numerous hidden caves and waterfalls. There are over 100 miles of maintained trails for hiking and horseback use. There are two developed campgrounds and eight primitive campgrounds throughout the entire park. Of the two developed campgrounds, only one offers amenities such as water and electricity hook ups for visitors. There is one visitor center in each of the three districts, two of which are staffed and open to the public year round. The duty station is located Yellville, Arkansas. Yellville is a town of approximately 2,000 people located in north central Arkansas, about 30 miles south of the Arkansas-Missouri state line. Government rental housing is not available in Yellville. Mountain Home is located 25 miles to the east with a population of approximately 11,000 people. Harrison is located 35 miles west and has a population of approximately 14,000 people. Both Mountain Home and Harrison offers K-12 schools, a community college, restaurants, shopping, groceries, movie theatres, hospitals, and specialized clinics. There are several rental properties, as well as homes to purchase within Mountain Home, Harrison and Yellville areas.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-06/17/2024-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-05 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-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes oral presentation of historical, scientific, or program information to groups; or developing and/or revising technical, historical, or scientific information for oral presentation to groups. Examples of specialized experience could include Park Guide or tour leader; museum or observatory guide, docent, naturalist; environmental educator or teacher; teaching assistant; or other similar work. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a four-year course of study above high school leading to a bachelor's degree with courses related to American history, science and/or public speaking. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to one year of specialized experience. Specialized experience (50% of the experience requirements for this position and grade level) combined with one year of education as outlined above (50% of the education required to qualify), which included at least 6 semester hours of related courses such as American history, science, or public speaking (50% of the directly related courses required). 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 Midwest-West Regional Human Resources Office 246 S Chicago Street Hot Springs, SD 57747 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Phone: 402 661 1986
• Email: [email protected]