These positions are located in North Cascades National Park, in the Visitor and Resource Protection Division. The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period for North Cascades National Park is April-May, but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: May 2025.

Duties

GS-0025-05: Patrol climbing approaches and technical climbing routes, as well as trailed areas and rugged off-trail travel, by foot and in a wide range of weather conditions. Make educational and safety contacts with visitors, especially mountaineering parties. Initial response and serves on a team for Search and Rescue and emergency response in the wilderness and in technical terrain. Perform some campsite maintenance, trail work, and other tasks relating to wilderness management, including maintenance of composting toilets in climbing areas. Backcountry patrols vary in length from 1 to 10 days per pay period, but average 3-6. The remainder of the time is spent staffing a wilderness information center, SAR and gear cache maintenance, conducting training, and office project work. GS-0025-07: This is a team leader mountaineering ranger position. You are expected to be skilled and experienced to: Provide leadership and guidance to other employees and/or volunteer partners in Search and Rescue operations. Lead climbing and mountaineering patrols. Assist the supervisor in leading and mentoring new rangers. May be responsible for the direction and coordination of volunteers, Student Conservation Association employees, interns, and community work crews doing park projects. May train volunteers, interns, and other employees.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/24/2024-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 resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. SELECTIVE FACTORS: 1. This position performs Mountaineering, and experience in ascending to the summit of peaks on Grade IV, Class 5.6 routes with navigation over glaciered terrain, and the ability to lead climbs on glaciered terrain up to 9,000' in elevation is required. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position. This experience MUST be documented in application materials. 2. You must possess a current National Registry Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT), or higher level, certification to be prepared to provide pre-hospital care for medical emergencies by your first day of work. Candidates who do not meet this requirement will receive no further consideration for this position. Certification or documentation of enrollment in course MUST be submitted in application materials. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-05 grade level, you must possess at least one 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-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience may have been in technical, administrative, or scientific work, fish and wildlife management, recreation management, law enforcement, or other park-related work. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include, but are not limited to, the following: park guide or tour leader; law enforcement or investigative work; archeological or historical preservation research work; forestry or fire management work in a park, recreation, or conservation area; management, assistant, or program specialist work involving the development and implementation of policy related to protection, conservation, or management of park areas or similar operations. You must include hours per week worked on your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least four years of progressively higher level undergraduate education leading to a bachelor's degree with major study, at least 24 semester hours of related course work, in natural resource management, natural sciences, earth sciences, history, archeology, anthropology, park and recreation management, law enforcement/police science, social sciences, museum sciences, business administration, public administration, behavioral sciences, sociology, or other closely related subjects pertinent to the management and protection of natural and cultural resources. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a COMBINATION of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take the number of semester hours (or equivalent) earned towards a bachelor's degree, in excess of 60 semester hours, and divide by 60 semester hours (or equivalent). Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours per week worked and transcripts. To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: 1) conduct patrols that include mountaineering routes of technical terrain on glaciers or steep rock; 2) staff a visitor center or information desk providing information and orientation to visitors; and 3) respond to all-risk incidents (e.g., medicals, search and rescue, wildland or structural fire, etc.). You must include hours per week worked on your resume. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least one year of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree with major study in natural resource management, natural sciences, marine biology/sciences, earth sciences, history, archeology, anthropology, park and recreation management, law enforcement/police science, social sciences, wetlands ecology, or other closely related subjects pertinent to the management and protection of natural and cultural resources or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a COMBINATION of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take the number of semester hours (or equivalent) earned towards a graduate degree and divide by 18 semester hours (or equivalent). Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours per week worked and transcripts. 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. ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior­ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.

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 North Cascades National Park 810 State Route 20 Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 US
• Name: Kelley Kennec
• Email: [email protected]