Position is located in Boise, ID, at the National Interagency Fire Center. Incumbent coordinates at a highly skilled level with state, regional, national and international levels with other federal agencies which includes senior staff officials from USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Tribal governments, and coordination with state agencies, local governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGO).
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. 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 - 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. If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualifications or specialized experience a rating of "ineligible" or "not qualified" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted. Basic Qualification Requirements: Candidates must possess Primary/Rigorous wildland firefighting experience, gained through fire line work in containment, control, suppression or use of wildland fire. 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. AND In addition to the requirements described above, the following additional experience are required for the grade specified. .For the GS-13 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level, or higher in the Federal service, or equivalent; Examples of specialized experience include: providing strategic leadership ensuring implementation mission, values, and goals. Has knowledge of the collection and analysis of wildland fire and emergency management data, producing actionable lessons and best practices. Facilitating the integration of these insights across the organization and with partners, while overseeing communication efforts to share key information with the fire community. Providing supervisory responsibilities for staff and project teams, while providing technical oversight and guidance. Secondary Firefighter Retirement Coverage - Applicants for this secondary administrative fire fighter position under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.S.C. 8412 (d), must possess knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of wildland firefighting as demonstrated by direct wildland firefighting experience. In order to receive credit, you must provide a written description of your experience in wildland firefighting. Education without hands-on wildland firefighting experience does not meet this requirement. Periods of wildland firefighting experience, gained through militia and rural fire departments, can also be credited. 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. 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.
Provides strategic and operational direction, fire management advice, and leadership for the Center by implementing the LLC strategic mission, core values, vision, and goals. Provides direction and maintains effective processes for gathering, verifying, and analyzing observations and information from a variety of sources, and producing accurate and valid knowledge products, containing lessons and effective practices as they relate to wildland fire operations and other emergency management fields, in a variety of media formats. Identifies opportunities to apply lessons at key upstream points to influence organizational learning on an enterprise scale. Works with partner organizations to orchestrate programmatic change based on identified lessons. Provides leadership and direction in implementing and overseeing all effective collections processes. Ensures data and information is valid and applicable to fire management needs. Coordinates the strategic publicity and communication plan for the LLC through a wide variety of methods and in numerous venues. Ensures applicable lessons and effective practices are well communicated to the wildland fire community, from field firefighters to incident management teams and fire managers at multiple levels. Identifying relevant lessons and effective practices and formatting them in a consumable manner for appropriate levels of the fire workforce. Provides the full range of supervisory responsibilities (administrative and technical) for at least one position. Incumbent provides technical oversight to the LLC staff consisting of: Center Operations Manager (USFS) Technical Writer/Editor (USFS) Field Operations Specialist (USFS) Provides leadership and technical oversight for personnel detailed to LLC and project teams working on specific LLC activities.