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Fire Program Assistant (OA) - Direct Hire Authority
Office of the Secretary of the Interior · Posted 75 days ago
On-site Tupelo, MS $50K – $66K Apply by Jul 16, 2026 Miscellaneous Clerk And Assistant ESFJESTJISFJISTJ
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One position is being filled at Natchez Trace Parkway; duty location Tupelo, MS. The incumbent of this position provides administrative assistance to the USWFS Southern Area Unit 3. For additional questions regarding the duties or location of this position, please contact Doug Sprouse at James_Sprouse@nps.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Provides administrative, operational, and technical support for fire management activities.
- →Manages budget programming for multiple fund sources contributing to the fire program, understands and interprets interagency and agency policy as well as national and regional financial business rules for appropriate charging of funds.
- →Serves as the primary user of automated financial systems and processes procurement actions for the fire program.
- →Assists Fire Management Officers in preparation of annual fire budget requests using automated/electronic systems.
- →Serves as the subject matter expert in emergency incident administrative procedures, providing correct interpretation and application of incident time, travel, procurement, and cost tracking procedures.
- →Manages the Incident Qualification and Certification System database for assigned local stations and assists with all Department of Interior responders located in the Unit.
- →Creates and updates qualification records, inputs annual training, instructor, and incident experience.
- →Manages and tracks current agency medical clearance determinations for qualified employees.
- →Regularly coordinates with local, state, and interagency partners.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Must be 18 years of age at time of close date of announcement.
- ✓Willing to live/work in remote locations (volatile/unpredictable).
- ✓You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
- ✓You will be required to operate a government motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.
- ✓Incumbent will be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.
- ✓If new to the federal government, and this is your first appointment, as a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
- ✓This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3b1fa3c4-f7ab-4ffd-aa6a-7c3ed2d97324
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