This position is located in Glacier National Park, in the Science and Resources Management Division. 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 end of December to mid-December, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

Duties

Conducts natural resource management activities in both front country and backcountry areas related to one or more of the physical sciences. Incumbent will install, operate, and maintain complex sampling, and laboratory equipment and instruments. Inventories equipment, evaluates quality assurance compliance, and calibrates equipment as necessary. Incumbent must be able to carry loads up to 40 lbs over rough country in extreme weather as well as operate non-motorized watercraft (such as a canoe or raft) in a large river. The incumbent of this position organizes, schedules, and conducts various technical duties in such fields as water quality, air quality, use of trails and roadways, and related sciences. Primary duties include safely operating and maintaining air quality monitoring equipment, operating and maintaining water quality monitoring and sampling equipment, collecting and organizing field data using standardized data collecting procedures and equipment, using GIS technology to draft professional quality maps, collecting geospatial data with a GPS and surveying equipment (such as total stations), downloading and manipulating trail, traffic, and geospatial data, data gathering to document project phases and results; and writing a project report. Provides guidance to volunteers and other technicians. Incumbent collects qualitative and quantitative data to monitor outstandingly remarkable values for the Flathead Wild and Scenic River, including but not limited to water quality, recreation experience, wildlife, geologic, and bontanic outstandingly remarkable river values. Incumbent operates vehicles, watercraft, pulling/backing trailers. Incumbent will also assist in operation of the park's air quality program and night sky program. Duties will include operation and maintenance of multiple instruments for a variety of national air quality monitoring programs. The incumbent will also assist in scheduled verification and calibration of instruments. Data management responsibilities include maintaining detailed field notes, completing field data sheets, using computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, operating global positioning system (GPS) equipment, and entering data into databases and/or park geographic information systems (GIS) using ESRI ArcGIS software. Incumbent delivers written and verbal progress and task completion reports. Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments here: https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Reasonable_Accommodations_for_USA_Hire

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/08/2024-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 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized 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. 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. EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: work in the fields of astronomy, physics, geophysics, chemistry, hydrology, health physics, engineering, electronics, geology, oceanography, and metallurgy; assisting with natural resources research projects; compiling and evaluating scientific data for physical science research or natural resource-based studies or reports; operating sampling, monitoring, and laboratory equipment; collecting and organizing environmental data such as water quality and quantity, atmospheric chemistry or air quality; setting-up and managing remote environmental monitoring equipment such as weather stations and water-quality instruments; or using computer programs such as databases to compile, store, retrieve, analyze, and report resource management data. You must include 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 Glacier National Park PO Box 128 West Glacier, MT 59936 US
• Name: Britni Johnson
• Email: [email protected]