Position is in Alaska's Eastern Area Fire Management Team; Yukon-Charley Rivers Nat'l Preserve Incumbent serves as Assistant Fire Management Officer responsible for directing multiple phases of fire management programs such as fire planning, aviation mgmt, training, preparedness, fuels management/prevention, dispatching, suppression, post-suppression, as well as all hazard and emergency response activities. For more information regarding this position, please contact [email protected].

Duties

Recommends priorities for hazard fuel reduction, prescribed burns and fuels management based on minimizing potential damage and maximizing multiple resource benefit and enhancement. Collaborates with park unit leadership while also serving on and representing the units and NPS on various interagency teams, and work groups dealing with specific local, geographic, or national fire management issues. Works with a variety of complex technical problems relating to fire weather, smoke management, fire behavior, and computer fire modeling. Ensures the fuels management program is consistent with ecosystem management principles and land use plans. Assists in ensuring the fuels management program is consistent with ecosystem management principles and land use plans. Assists in planning and executing some phases of the budget formulation and execution process and initiates changes as appropriate. Assists in directing all phases of the moderate complexity wildland fire program within assigned park unit/zone. Coordinates unit and group programs with various other federal, state, and local agencies. Supervises, directs, and coordinates subordinate staff.

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying 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 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 an applicant's resume is incomplete a rating of "ineligible" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted. Basic Qualification Requirements: Candidates must possess Primary/Rigorous wildland firefighting experience, gained through fire line work in containment, control, suppression or use of wildland fire. You must clearly demonstrate this experience in your resume, including the months, days and hours per week at which the work was performed in order to be considered. In addition to the requirements described above, the following additional experience are required for the grade specified. For the GS-11 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level, or higher in the Federal service; Examples of specialized experience include: Reviewed and evaluated fire management plans for ecological soundness or consistency with land management goals and/or potentially adverse impacts to cultural and natural resources; Conducted field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or evaluating the effectiveness of actions taken; Analyzed the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management; Analyzed and/or applied fire management strategies in mobilization and/or dispatch coordination, fire prevention and education, training, logistics, equipment development and deployment, fire communication systems, suppression and preparedness or aviation; Analyzed fuel loadings and determined appropriate fuel treatment methods (i.e. prescribed fire, mechanical, chemical, or biological treatments); Performed land use planning and environmental compliance; Evaluated prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identifying appropriate suppression contingencies if fire containment is not obtained; Implemented fire management planning, including evaluation of objective in resource management plans to develop strategies to accomplish these objectives; Developed evaluation measures to determine if fire management activities have accomplished objectives and adapted future activities based on findings; Developed agreements to support fire management activities across multiple units including inter- and intra-agency agreements; Participated in fire management review processes including program reviews, incident reviews, and/or fuels treatment reviews. -OR- One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-10 level, or higher, outside of the Federal service; Examples of specialized experience include: Provided direct leadership and supervision for fire management staff and cooperators during preparedness and incident response assignments; Involvement with all phases of the fire management program including planning, program direction, coordination and evaluation; assigning crews and wildland firefighters; Supervised administrative program functions such as planning, budget formulation/execution; Worked closely with partners, cooperators, and single land base area to develop inter- and intra-agency agreements; Coordinated operations on multi-jurisdictional wildland fires addressing risk to human safety and potential for damage to resources and improvements; Developed, reviewed and evaluated fire management plans for ecological soundness or consistency with land management goals and/or potentially adverse impacts to cultural and natural resources; Conducted field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or evaluating the effectiveness of actions taken; Analyzed the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management; Analyzed and/or applied fire management strategies in mobilization and/or dispatch coordination, fire prevention and education, training, logistics, equipment development and deployment, fire communication systems, suppression and preparedness or aviation; Analyzed fuel conditions and determined appropriate fuel treatment methods (i.e. prescribed fire, mechanical, chemical, or biological treatments); Performed land use planning and environmental compliance; Evaluated prescribed burn plans or fire management plans to ensure fire containment is possible and identifying appropriate suppression contingencies if fire containment is not obtained; Implemented fire management planning, including evaluation of objective in resource management plans to develop strategies to accomplish these objectives; Developed evaluation measures to determine if fire management activities have accomplished objectives and adapted future activities based on findings. Secondary Firefighter Retirement Coverage - Applicants for this secondary administrative fire fighter position under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.S.C. 8412 (d), must possess knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of wildland firefighting as demonstrated by direct wildland firefighting experience. In order to receive credit, you must provide a written description of your experience in wildland firefighting. Education without hands-on wildland firefighting experience does not meet this requirement. Periods of wildland firefighting experience, gained through militia and rural fire departments, can also be credited. Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fires as follows: Wildfire: Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires. Prescribed Fires: Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting 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 educational qualifications for the GS-0456 Wildland Firefighter occupational series at the GS-11 grade level.

Additional Information:

Cost of Living Allowance (COLA): COLA pay in Alaska is 3.21% with the exception of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, which is 1.69%. The salary annotated on this announcement includes the locality, however, does not include the cost-of-living allowance. Alaska currently does not have a state income tax.

Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses will be paid if the person selected for the position is from outside the local commuting area and is otherwise eligible for reimbursement of relocation expenses under the Federal Travel Regulations.

This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.

Contacts

• Address Alaska Region Wildland Fire and Aviation 240 W 5th Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 US
• Name: National Staffing Office
• Email: [email protected]