Supervisory Inventory and Monitoring Regional Program Manager

Clarification from the agency

This announcement is also open to those under special authorities such as Former Public Land Corps (PLC) members, and OPM Interchange Agreement and Other Miscellaneous Authorities.

Duties

The major duties of the Supervisory Inventory and Monitoring Regional Program Manager position include, but are not limited to, the following :

• Exercise the full range of technical and administrative supervisory responsibilities for a staff that includes permanent and temporary personnel.
• Serves as principal scientific advisor for the inventory and monitoring of natural resources, where most parks in the region lack sufficient scientific staff to collect, manage, and synthesize scientific information needed to manage park ecosystems.
• Leads the development, implementation, and management of an interdisciplinary and complex program within the region to address a wide variety of sensitive park resource management issues of national significance, accomplishing the national goals and objectives for the Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) Program.
• Identifies l&M needs and develops work plans and schedules, cost estimates, and funding proposals to accomplish program goals.
• Collects, organizes, and makes available natural resource data to produce useful program information through analysis, synthesis, and modeling and summarizes information for use by scientists, managers, planners, park staff, cooperators, and partners.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
• Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service);

with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments.

Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments and must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.

You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.

• You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift 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 2 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
• You may be required to complete training and obtain / maintain a government charge card with travel and / or purchase authority.
• 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.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10 / 17 / 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.

To qualify for the position at the Supervisory Inventory and Monitoring Regional Program Manager GS-13 grade, you must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement :

Basic Requirements

General Resources Management and Biological Science Series, 0401 (You must include transcripts) :

• Degree : biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. Or
• Combination of education and experience : Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Ecology Series, 0408 (You must include transcripts) :

Degree : biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences.

These hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences.

General Physical Science, 1301 (You must include transcripts) :

• Degree : 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 OR
• Combination of education and experience education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and / or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In addition to the basic requirements listed above, to qualify for this position at the GS-13 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-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

Experience at this level must include all of the following : (1) Coordination of interdisciplinary programs of natural resource management and ecosystem science.

2) Establishes quality assurance and quality control standards and procedures for Inventory and Monitoring Programs. (3) Planning, developing, and implementing major agency natural resources and / or ecosystem programs and projects.

You must include hours per week worked.

Y ou 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 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 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.

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.