Serve as elk reduction team leader of skilled volunteers in lethal removal of elk herd. Use of GPS units, ranger finders, spotting scopes, rifles, hand-held radios, and data loggers is required to efficiently locate and remove elk, collect biological samples, record accurate data. and lead volunteers. Extensive experience using firearms to harvest large animals and spot, stalk hunting techniques. Hiking up to ten miles per day, with backpacks exceeding 70 pounds in weight will be required.

Duties

Works closely with supervisors, volunteer coordinators, and team leaders, daily, to ensure the safety of the team and maximize reduction success in the field. Provides direct oversight and leadership to a team comprised of two to four volunteers engaged in elk reduction activities (i.e., locating, shooting, field dressing, recording data, collecting samples, quartering, and packing out elk). Interpreting GPS location data of elk, to determine the safest method and route for removal activities. Maintains field equipment assigned to the team to include packs, firearms, knives, electronics, vehicles, and optics. Promotes safe operations and ensures standard elk reduction protocols are closely followed. Routinely operates field radios and navigational equipment. Ensures that salvageable meat is being recovered efficiently, safely, and quickly. Routinely navigates and leads pack crew teams into rugged back-country terrain (approximately eight to ten miles) to remove elk and pack out meat. Records field data and collects biological and morphological samples/measurements at each kill site in addition to assisting in record-keeping and shipping samples to appropriate labs. Carries sixty to eighty pounds of meat in a pack across rugged and slippery terrain, in various weather conditions, daily.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT)Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specifications, etc. (other than blueprints)Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and EquipmentDexterity and SafetyKnowledge of materialsTechnical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic)Use of Measuring Instructions SCREEN OUT: Able to perform the most difficult and complex elk removal and reduction worker tasks associated with a reduction/removal program. Act as a team lead for more than four other workers in the performance of such tasks as a regular part of my duties. Have extensive experience in locating elk using "sign" (e.g., tracks and feces and other indicators of presence); field dressing large game animals to include gutting, skinning, quartering, and packaging of meat for packing; navigating with a compass, map, and/or GPS unit. Have operated, maintained, and repaired a high-powered rifle associated with the duties of this position as a regular part of my duties. If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors. 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 for Wage Grade (WG) positions.

Contacts

• Address Theodore Roosevelt National Park PO Box 7, 315 2nd Ave Medora, ND 58645 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Phone: 402 661 1986
• Email: [email protected]