This position is located in Harpers Ferry Center, in the Office of Business Services. The incumbent is responsible for assisting the Project Manager or Business Services Manager in initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling complex and multiple media, signage, and conservation projects from inception through completion. Open to the first 50 applicants or until 01/10/2025 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

The major duties of the Project Specialist position include, but are not limited to, the following: Responsible for assisting the Project Manager or Manager in initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling complex and multiple media, signage and conservation projects from inception through completion. Uses knowledge of the NPS organization, HFC operations financial and scheduling processes, as well as professional discipline skills to help guide project formulation and development, through to completion of projects, which are within quality, budget, and schedule commitments. Establishes the order of project documentation to ensure overall project administration requirements are met. Oversees simultaneous, multiple, and complex project budgets with multi-year project funding; identifies key requirements per fiscal year that could impact project implementation. Executes budget administration functions: monitors obligations, certifies expenditures, initiates disbursement of funds, prepares reports and periodic updates, prepares purchase request packages in current financial system, researches and processes invoices and undelivered orders (UDOs), and reconciles project accounts.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/10/2025-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-09 grade level, you must possess all 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 the following activities: 1.) Ability to perform multiple administrative tasks simultaneously, and work efficiently under pressure to coordinate details, resolve problems, and meet established deadlines. 2.) Ability to analyze, monitor, and evaluate a variety of project fund sources. 3.) Ability to apply the principles, practices and methods of budget execution and formulation to track and monitor obligations, expenditures, and allotments; to review, edit and consolidate budget estimates for assigned projects. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level, then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. You must include transcripts. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week. 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 Harpers Ferry Center 67 Mather Place Harpers Ferry, WV 25425 US
• Name: Luciano Otano
• Email: [email protected]