This position is located in Timpanogos Cave National Monument, in the Resource Stewardship and Science Division. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions that include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately mid-January through the end of December, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

Duties

Serve as a technical advisor in the physical sciences for Timpanogos Cave National Monument. Responsible for program development and implementation related to geology, caves and karst formations, soils, hydrology, hydrogeology, air quality, acoustics, paleontology, and related fields and activities. Prepare management and scientific reports regarding the results of protection, mitigation, restoration, inventory, monitoring, and research activities. Following established procedures and within a defined scope, conduct scientifically credible protection, mitigation, and restoration projects needed to prevent resource damage and to minimize human impacts. Work closely with park education staff to incorporate new information into park and partner education programs. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. Physical Demands: The position may require strenuous physical activity including periods of standing, walking, climbing, and lifting and carrying heavy objects. Some activities will occur in physically dangerous areas or settings. Documentary research and report writing work is sedentary, entails the ability to concentrate and write for long periods of time. Working Conditions: Work is performed both indoors and outdoors in all types of weather. Assignments may be performed in potentially hazardous areas including steep slopes, rocky terrain, volcanoes, caves, firelines, arctic environments, swamps, deserts, and forests. Flying in fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters is possible. Area/Housing Information: Timpanogos Cave National Monument is located on Utah State Hwy 92 in American Fork Canyon, 10 miles east of exit 284, I-15. The monument is surrounded by the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, which includes several wilderness areas. It is located 10 minutes away from nearby cities of Cedar Hills, Highland, Lehi, Pleasant Grove, and American Fork. There are plenty of premier outdoor activities that can be experienced near the monument such as camping, hunting, fishing, snow skiing, boating, rock-climbing, mountaineering, caving, and hiking. Schools with grades kindergarten through 12 are in all of the nearby cities. A wide selection of housing options, shopping facilities, hospitals, movie theaters, banks, churches, and universities are available all along the Wasatch Front. The State's main metropolitan population cities including Provo, Salt Lake City, and Ogden are all within a 1-hour drive radius. The Headquarters office elevation is 5,600 feet. Temperatures can range from below 0 in the winter to above 100 degrees F in the summer. Government housing is not available.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-12/30/2024-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. SELECTIVE FACTOR: This position performs Vertical Caving. Applicants must have demonstrated experience safely and efficiently traveling in the vertical environment negotiating Alpine Single Rope Technique (SRT) rigging components including rebelays, redirects, and traverses. Your resume must describe your vertical rope experience. Candidates who do not meet this requirement by close of this announcement will receive no further consideration for this position. - AND - Meet the Basic Requirements for General Physical Science Series, 1301: A. You must have a degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- B. You must have a combination of education and experience. Education equivalent to one of the majors shown above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include a copy of your transcripts. -AND- Meet the Qualification Standards for the grade(s) you are applying to: To qualify for this position at the GS-07 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 equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service. Specialized experience is experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) Researches technical reports; 2) Assists in preparation of graphs, charts and tables, and drafts reports; 3) Takes measurements and collects information; 4) Applies basic formulas to routine calculations, plotting and checking numerical data and completes routine analyses; and/or 5) Facilitates resource protection, mitigation, restoration activities. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of one (1) year (18 semester hours) of graduate-level education in a related field. The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of related graduate level education and specialized experience as described above. For example, six months of the specialized experience as described above (50% of experience), and at least one semester (9 semester hours) of college graduate study in a directly related field from an accredited institution (50% of education), meet 100% of the qualification requirements. You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- Superior Academic Achievement (SAA) with a bachelor's degree in a field that is qualifying for this position and one of the following: graduated in the upper third of the college graduating class; OR have a 3.0 GPA or higher out of a possible 4.0 as recorded on official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education or courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or had 3.5 GPA or higher out of a possible 4.0 on the average of all required courses completed in the major or courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum (GPA will be rounded to one decimal place, i.e., 2.95 rounds to 3.0 and 2.94 rounds to 2.9); OR member of a national honor society (excluding freshman honor society). You must include a copy of your transcripts. To qualify for this position at the GS-09 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 equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the federal service. Specialized experience is experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) Collects field data contributing to a basic natural resources inventory or monitoring program; 2) Performs a variety of technical tasks, such as selecting samples, interpolating missing data, uncovering clear discrepancies, solving minor problems and performing scientific analyses; 3) Drafts workplans and implementation strategies; and/or 4) Investigates cultural sites, natural resources, historic scenes, and subjects to identify, protect or interpret them. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of two (2) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree in a related field. The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. (Two years of graduate education is 36 semester hours.) You must include a copy of your transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of graduate level education and specialized experience that together meets the requirements of the position. Only graduate education in excess of 18 semester hours may be used to qualify applicants for this grade level. For example, 6 months of the specialized experience (50% of experience), and 27 semester hours of directly-related graduate level college study in an accredited institution (50% of education), meet 100% of the qualification requirements. You must include a copy of your 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.

Education

College transcripts are required to meet basic requirements and if qualifying 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 Timpanogos Cave National Monument R.R. 3, Box 200 American Fork, UT 84003 US
• Name: Christina Mizelle
• Email: [email protected]