This position is with the Wildland Fire and Aviation Branch of the National Park Service's Fire Management Team. The incumbent will provide technical advice for short- and long-term strategic fire management planning, assessments, and interagency and/or unit fire management plans. For more information regarding this position, please reach out to Cumberland Island National Seashore - Lucas Hunkler @ lucas_hunkler@nps.gov
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement 01/24/2025, 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 qualified specialized experience. You must clearly demonstrate this experience in your resume, including the months, days and hours per week at which the work was performed in order to be considered. NOTE: If your firefighting experience includes both structural and wildland, it is essential that your application materials clearly separate and document your wildland experience. Selective Factor: This is an administrative position in an organization having a firefighting mission and is clearly in an established career path. Prior firefighting experience, as gained by substantial service in a primary firefighter position or equivalent experience outside the Federal government is a MANDATORY PREREQUISITE. Wildland firefighting experience is required to meet qualifications for secondary (administrative) covered positions. The Department of Interior defines wildland firefighting experience as: On-the-line wildland firefighting experience gained through containment, control, suppression, or use of wildland fire. Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fires as follows: Wildfire: Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires. Prescribed Fires: Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting experience. - AND - GS-09 - In addition, to qualify for this position, you must possess the following specialized experience: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-08 level in the Federal service. Special experience will include; executing fire management activities in fire preparedness, fuels management and prevention, fire suppression, monitoring, and/or post-fire and participates on fire management and incident assignments to increase expertise in subject areas, fire preparedness, fuels management, prevention, fire suppression, monitoring, and/or post-fire, and overall wildland fire management planning. 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.
This position develops field/local wildland plans and fire management alternatives in environmental settings that reflect national, regional, state, and local management goals and objectives related to fire management. Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of fire management programs through periodic on-the-ground inspections or visits to field units. Provides skilled decision-making recommendations on short and long-term strategic fire management planning, assessments, and interagency unit fire management plans. Applies advanced knowledge and judgment on wildland fire planning processes and procedures of a difficult level. Applies technical fire planning knowledge to analyze and resolve complex problems relating to the development, execution, and monitoring of field/local fire management issues by developing and implementing alternatives to meet the fire management social or political objectives and monitoring the effects of long-term droughts and changes in climate to analyze long-term fire related impacts on the environment. Provides technical support to fire management officers, land or resource management personnel, and planners throughout the fire program assigned. Provides technical advice in the use of the National Fire Danger Rating System. During wildland fire and fuels management assignments, provides on-the-job training and mentorship opportunities to lower graded firefighters on the use of tools and equipment. Performs administrative leadership responsibilities to include maintaining records such as receipts for supplies, travel, and credit card purchases; ensuring that work is carried out safely; reporting on work accomplishments of the crews being led; and reporting on employee performance concerns. Maintains wildland fire planning records management system and advise fire management officers, land, resources, and other staff specialists to ensure accuracy and timeliness in support of fire post-suppression requirements.