This position serves as the North District Supervisory Park Ranger (Protection) located in Denali National Park and Preserve in the Visitor and Resource Protection Division.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Serves as the supervisor of the park's north district visitor and resource protection division and performs a wide range of supervisory functions including work planning, scheduling, assigning priorities, assigning, and reviewing work, training, awards and recognition, conducting performance appraisals, safety, and recruiting. Develops and implements a district-level visitor and resource protection program, including law enforcement, emergency medical services, and search and rescue. Liaises with local communities, visitors, federal, state, and local agencies, concessionaires, inholders, permitees, park managers and staff. Maintains a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the district's natural and cultural resources and of the specific laws and regulations pertaining to the protection and use of these resources. Responsible for leading, planning, analyzing, directing, and coordinating a variety of diverse programs that require professional and in-depth technical knowledge, experience, and skills in the specific fields of law enforcement and emergency services (emergency medical services, search and rescue, structural and wildland fire management, incident management and planning), special park uses, and fiscal management. The National Park Service (NPS) has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for situational telework or during an emergency or natural disaster with prior supervisor approval. Physical Demands: The incumbent will be required to perform regular office work with moderate physical exertion, though the incumbent is frequently required to exert strenuous physical effort in high-risk activities. These situations involve fire control, search and rescue, law enforcement, wildlife management, backcountry patrol, hiking and climbing in steep terrain, carrying heavy loads, running, and other emergency response. Incumbent may be called upon to work long hours in adverse environmental conditions, in all seasons, both day and night. Work involves periodic travel including by small planes, helicopters, watercraft or specialized vehicles. Work Environment: The incumbent is regularly required to work outside in all types of extreme weather and terrain including temperatures of -50° F, snow and glaciers, rugged mountainous areas, high altitudes, glacial streams and rivers, and with wildlife including grizzly bears. Will be involved with helicopter and fixed-wing operations, sometimes at low level in mountainous terrain, and with other hazardous equipment and situations. Please visit find a park for additional park information.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/23/2024-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 number of hours worked per week, full-time, or part-time. If you indicate part-time, you MUST indicate the number of hours worked per week so that your qualifying experience can be prorated for credit. 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 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 being used towards experience, 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 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, you must possess the following qualifications: Law Enforcement Commission (Selective Factor): Must currently hold, previously held within the past three years, or be able to obtain before entering on duty, a Type I National Park Service Law Enforcement Commission. Applicants must document how they meet this requirement in their application package, such as listing the commission number, expiration date or date obtained, or the expected completion date, in the resume. AND Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors) that is directly related to the position to be filled. Examples of specialized experience include law enforcement or investigative work involving the protection, conservation, or management of park areas; management, assistant, or program specialist work involving the development and implementation of policy related to protection, conservation, or management of park areas; leading or supervising a park law enforcement program. You must include the number of hours worked per week in your resume. Volunteer 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. Additional "requirements" continued: Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade in the Federal service) with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current employees applying under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA). Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments and must be met by the closing date of this announcement. New employees and/or supervisors in the Federal Government will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. Position designated essential; selectee may be required to work during emergencies. Occupancy of government quarters is required. Required to wear a uniform and comply with the NPS uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. May be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays and overtime. May be required to travel overnight away from home up to 3 nights per month. May be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. Subject to annual financial disclosure reporting and required to complete a new entrant Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days appointment.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Denali National Park and Preserve P O Box 9 Denali Park, AK 99755 US
• Name: Cherilyn Alexander
• Phone: (907) 644-3345
• Email: [email protected]