This position is located in Glacier National Park, in the Science and Resource 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 beginning of March through end of December, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year. This detail/temporary promotion may be made permanent without further competition.

Duties

Leads resource management field crews, with an emphasis on native plant restoration, collection, production and maintenance, and manages the operation of the native plant nursery and greenhouses. Organizes, schedules and executes a wide variety of established natural resource management projects; plans vegetation field projects, including restoration and plant materials collection. Leads a park-wide crew of park employees, conservation corps crews and/or contract crews and various interns, students and volunteers. Propagates native plant species with applied horticultural methods and leads collection of seed and cuttings. Keeps detailed records by documenting native plant production and restoration project completion reports; summarizes data using computers, software packages and GIS. Physical Demands: The work requires regular physical exertion such as walking or climbing over wet, rough, uneven and/or rocky surfaces: bending, crouching, stooping or reaching to observe, collect and/or record field data. Lifting moderately heavy items, bending and stooping for long periods, and strenuous use of hand tools on uneven terrain will be required. Moderately heavy items, such as equipment packs weighing up to 50 pounds, must be lifted and carried on a regular basis. Required to hike several miles in a day. Foot travel may be occasionally off trail through dense brush, forest or rocky slopes. Driving vehicles on mountainous roads in harsh weather conditions will likely be encountered. Working Conditions: Work is performed in harsh and varied weather conditions, out-of-doors, primarily at the Native Plant Nursery, occasionally park-wide, with some office duties. The work performed in the field involves regular and recurring exposure to extreme weather conditions and terrain. Long periods of freezing rain, snow, wind, and fog are common. Assignments may require travel in terrain frequented by grizzly bears and other predatory wildlife. Incumbent will be exposed to herbicides and other chemicals used to control diseases and pests.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/20/2024-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. To qualify for this position at the GS-08 grade level, you must possess some of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: overseeing nursery work that required the growing and maintenance of native plants in a controlled environment; leading a revegetation crew, planning and executing vegetation research or monitoring, including quality control/assessment, data summary and reporting on a project; leading vegetation inventory or monitoring requiring identification to sub-species of native vegetation OR comparable vegetation management experience. 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. 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 or equivalent in the Federal service); with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments. Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

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]