The incumbent will serve as the Chief of Natural Resources for the South Atlantic-Gulf (Interior Region2) of the National Park Service.

Duties

Plans, organizes, coordinates, implements, and provides regional leadership in the area of natural resource management and geospatial support. Assigns responsibility, delegates authorities, coordinates work planning, makes operating decisions, integrates work plans and programs; and evaluates effectiveness of individual activities and overall team operations. Provides natural resources expertise in the areas of climate change, wildlife ecology and management, vegetation, threatened and endangered species, air resources, and water resources. Represents the National Park Service and the Region on cross-agency task forces or workgroups pertaining to the management and protection of natural resources. Serves as the senior natural resource management advisor for the Region on natural resource policy being formulated at the Service wide level. Exercises delegated managerial authority to develop regional natural resource policy, and one-year and five-year strategic plans for the Region's natural resource management initiatives. Serves as coordinator or directly assists the coordinator for the following Service wide Natural Resource Programs. Employs a full range of supervisory duties over a professional and technical staff. Ensures equal opportunity for all employees supervised, including equal opportunity in selection of employees for training, promotions, awards and recognition, and career development opportunities. Responsible for the on-the-job safety and health of all employees supervised. Provides geographic information systems (GIS) knowledge and leadership for a regionwide program. Ensures that GIS tools and technical support are provided to park units as well as regional office programs. Assists in the preparation, review, and response to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and environmental compliance processes. Provides advice and assistance to field units particularly related to highly controversial or complex natural resource management issues. Develops and maintains partnerships and collaborative working relationships with public and private interdependent agencies or organizations to protect and manage the integrity of ecosystems for interagency planning, providing mutual support, fostering open communication, and providing educational opportunities to the people who visit the parks. Ensures that planning assistance is provided to parks for General Management Plans, Resource Stewardship Strategies, and other park planning efforts. Reviews products for quality and adherence to regulations and NPS policy.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/29/2024-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 for each federal position listed 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 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. 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 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. Basic Qualifications Requirements: You must meet one of the following basic qualification requirements below, for the Supervisory Natural Resource Management Specialist (Chief of Natural Resources), GS-0401-14. If you do not meet these basic qualifications, you will be considered not qualified and will not receive consideration for this position. Basic Requirements for Biologist, GS-0401: Have successfully completed a degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must include academic transcripts with your application package. -OR- Have a combination of education and experience. Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above; PLUS, experience directly related to the position being filled and/or additional related education. The quality of the combination of education and experience must demonstrate that you possess the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the work of the position to be filled and equal 100% of the requirement when combined. You must include academic transcripts to support your answer with your application package. You must include academic transcripts with your application package. To qualify for this position at the GS-14 grade level, you must possess 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-13 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Serving as a technical expert and scientific advisor for natural resources policy and programs, performing a variety of natural resources management duties that require in-depth scientific and technical analysis, developing and implementing programs and in some cases projects that involve interaction of several natural resource management and scientific specialties. 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

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Interior Region 2 100 Alabama Street Building 1924 Atlanta, GA 30303 US
• Name: Christine Jewett
• Email: [email protected]