These positions are located on a National Forest and are responsible for planning, managing, coordinating, reviewing, and reporting for several natural resources. For information on locations and contact information, please see the EDUCATION section.

Duties

Duties are listed at the full performance GS-13 level. Serve as a key member of the forest management team to formulate plans, policies, and objectives for the forest. Responsible for the quality, quantity, and coordination of all work performed in the various program areas overseen. Provide recommendations and information to the forest supervisor concerning important natural resource and administrative needs for those programs. Oversee study projects to develop guidelines, standards, and procedures for analyzing public needs, demands, and resource capabilities. Coordinate and promote ecosystem management, ensuring long term productivity and ecologically sustainable goals are implemented, maintained, and achieved. Responsible for programming, planning, budgeting, and management information (PBMI) for identifying work force and organizational needs and forest priorities. Ensure program expenditures are legal, meet charged-as-worked requirements and congressional intent, and remain within budget limits. Coordinate forest management of programs directed to public officials, industry representatives, and citizen groups. Establish and communicate guidelines and performance requirements to employees; conduct formal performance reviews; and identify and provide for the developmental and training needs of employees. Ensure a safe and healthy work environment by promoting safe work practices and providing necessary resources and equipment. Performs supervisory duties 25% or more of the time.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period (unless prior service is creditable). New USDA supervisors must successfully complete the required supervisory training program before the end of their probationary period.

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. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled in any of the job series listed below. For the GS-0101: Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position; OR Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field; OR Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. For the GS-0401: Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience in the amounts listed below. For the GS-12: You must have one-year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include one or more of the following: Planned environmental resources projects, such as construction, production, or reclamation activities, and ensured compliance with environmental plans and stipulations; Reviewed and critiqued natural resource short-range plans and project work plans developed by local work units. Prepared responses to appeals, objections, and/or litigation on environmental project decisions; Monitored project reviews to evaluate compliance with policies, objectives and assess natural resource planning implementation and accomplishments; and/or Assisted senior leaders exchange perspectives about land use and resource planning and Coordinated organization planning efforts with regional, state, city, county, or ad hoc citizen committees' land-use planning efforts. For the GS-13: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include one or more of the following: Authoritative expert providing regional information for formulating policy, standards and technical guidelines for natural resource analysis and documentation, administrative review, and litigation; Directed long-range planning and decision-making in connection with prospective changes in natural resource functions and programs; Reviewed and critiqued long-range plans and environmental analysis documents developed by other government entities or conservation/industry groups; Leader of, or a consultant to, a management team in the preparation of environmental assessments and environmental impact statements that develops alternative land-use strategies and forecasts the benefits, consequences, and costs (opportunity, resource, and socio-economic) in accordance with established goals; Organized, directed, and evaluated program review and assistance trips to evaluate compliance with policies, objectives and assess natural resource planning implementation and accomplishments; and/or Led natural resource planning efforts and activities in concert with regional, state, city, county, or ad hoc citizen committee land-use planning efforts. 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. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.

Location specific contact information:
Lufkin, TX - contact Tammie Mask at [email protected]
Gainesville, GA - contact Danielle Monroe, [email protected]
Pineville, LA - contact Lida Eichenauer at [email protected]
Golden Pond, KY - contact Jared Baker at [email protected]
Roanoke, VA - contact Louis Roy at [email protected]
Cleveland, TN - contact Hutson Vann at [email protected]

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]