This position is located in National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, in the Interpretation Division stationed at Wright Brothers National Memorial. Open to the first 75 applicants or until 01/08/2025 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

This position is duty stationed at Wright Brothers National Memorial and oversees the day-to-day interpretive operations of Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Both sites are approximately a 25-minute drive apart. This position reports to the Group Chief of Interpretation and serves as a member of the Interpretation Division Leadership Team. The incumbent supervises three GS-9 Interpretive Park Rangers and up to 4 seasonal GS-5 Park Rangers. Through subordinates, this position supports a career-seasonal GS-6 lead park guide, 1 seasonal GS-5 park ranger, and upwards of 15 volunteers and interns across both parks. The incumbent plans the work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares complex schedules. The incumbent is responsible for the supervision of multiple work shifts; assigns work to subordinates; interviews candidates for staff and volunteer positions; recommends appointment and reassignments; develops performance standards for subordinate staff and volunteers; evaluates work performance, providing advice, counseling, or instruction to employees on work and administrative matters; identifies training and orientation to subordinate employees; listens to and resolves minor complaints from employees; identifies and counsels employees on conduct issues; and implements disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action to the Chief of Interpretation more serious matters. The incumbent manages the social media program for Wright Brothers and Fort Raleigh. The incumbent reviews, edits, and schedules content to post on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The incumbent will evaluate trends and plan accordingly to maintain quality, thematic content, and overall vision of the park's social media presence. In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations, this position is the lead planner for major events at both parks, including the annual December 17th anniversary of flight. This position will take the lead on planning with park partners for the 125th anniversary of flight in 2028. The incumbent serves as the primary advocate for the planning, development, improvement, and adjustment to interpretive programming at Fort Raleigh and Wright Brothers. The incumbent works as an effective member of the parks' Leadership Team in managing cross-divisional issues. Area Information: The Outer Banks are comprised by several towns including Manteo, Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco, Hatteras, and Ocracoke. The area is a beach destination and the beaches, and Albemarle, and Pamlico sounds provide exceptional recreational opportunities, such as fishing, surfing, boating, and many other watersports. There are several highly rated elementary, middle, and high schools and numerous extracurricular activities available for children. These towns all have homes for sale or rent and are within reasonable driving distance. The Outer Banks has many modern conveniences, such as grocery stores, retail shopping, banks, a hospital, and many restaurants. Cost of living on the Outer Banks is somewhat expensive as compared to other eastern North Carolina communities. The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce (www.outerbankschamber.com) and the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau (www.outerbanks.org) websites can provide additional community information. The Outer Banks Group is comprised of the following National Park Service Sites: Wright Brothers National Memorial (www.nps.gov/wrbr): Wright Brother National Memorial is located in Kill Devil Hills, NC. It commemorates the location of the first flight by the Wright Brothers in December of 1903. This park hosts several special events including National Aviation Day and The Outer Banks Marathon. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (www.nps.gov/fora): Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is located just outside the town of Manteo, NC on the North end of Roanoke Island. The Outer Banks Group Headquarters is located within Fort Raleigh NHS. The park was designated as a national historic site to preserve the site of the First English Settlement in the new world. This site also preserves the cultural heritage of the Native Americans, European Americans and African Americans who have lived on Roanoke Island. The Lost Colony play is the longest running symphonic outdoor drama in the country and it runs during the summer months in the park. Cape Hatteras National Seashore (www.nps.gov/caha): Cape Hatteras National Seashore was designated as the first National Seashore in the Park Service, and preserves rich natural and cultural history, including three iconic lighthouses, stories of the United States Life-saving Service, and pristine maritime habitat home to an amazing diversity of birds and aquatic life.

Requirements

Qualifications

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime work. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. The position to which you will be appointed is subject to a financial disclosure reporting requirement and you will be required to complete a new entrant Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days of your appointment. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/08/2025-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. To qualify for this position at the GS-0025-11 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-0025-09 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Supervise, 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 and/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. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least three full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree related to the occupation in one of the following fields: Major study-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 protection of natural and cultural resources. Course work in fields other than those specified may be accepted if it clearly provides applicants with the background of knowledge and skills necessary for successful job performance in the position to be filled. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using education to qualify you must submit a copy of your transcripts. C. I have an equivalent combination of such education and experience. For example, I have 6 months of the specialized experience described in 1A above (50% of the experience requirement), and 45 semester hours or 68 quarter hours of directly related graduate level college study in an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education). You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include 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

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 National Parks of Eastern North Carolina 1401 National Park Drive Manteo, NC 27954 US
• Name: Mary Hearne
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]