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Park Ranger (I)
National Park Service · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas
What You'll Do
- →As a Park Ranger (I) your duties will include but are not limited to the following: At the GS-07 grade level, your work is designed to prepare you for higher level assignments and as such you will receive detail instructions on approach, specific deadlines, will have examples to follow and your work is subject to review while in progress.
- →Prepare interpretive and educational media such as video, flyers, digital bulletin boards and maintains park's website, social media sites, and app.
- →Use software programs such as PowerPoint, Publisher, Adobe Creative Suite2, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Adobe Premier Pro and Illustrator, about park resources and the rules for park usage, employing appropriate interpretive techniques and devices geared to the characteristics and interests of audiences.
- →Suggest new topics, revisions, and other changes or improvements in the overall interpretive program.
- →Educate visitors regarding activities that impact upon the preservation of natural and cultural resources, including issues dealing with visitor safety.
- →Perform various administrative duties, e.g., scheduling, gathering routine information for reports, compilation of statistical data, etc.
- →Train, provide guidance, and direct the work of seasonal and volunteer staff members in tasks that support visitor services and interpretive/education programs of an organization.
- →Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
- →Physical Demands: Requires some physical exertion and can involve extensive periods of standing and walking, in some cases over rough surfaces or inclines outdoors or in caves, and carrying backpacks, tools, rescue equipment, or other loads.
- →Some employees may engage in firefighting, search and rescue, and other strenuous activities; these employees may be required to lift or carry equipment weighing more than 50 pounds over long distances.
- →Employees who participate in all-risk operations will be required to meet fitness requirements on a continuing basis.
- →Working Conditions: Can include moderate risks or discomforts that require safety precautions (e.g., exposure to extreme temperatures, climates, rough terrain, wild animals, pests, and/or insects).
- →The incumbent may be required to use protective clothing or gear, such as masks, boots, gloves, etc.
- →Some employees may be engaged in all-risk operations and be exposed to high risk and potentially dangerous situations which require a range of safety and other precautions.
Requirements
- ✓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 may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties.
- ✓You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists.
- ✓Lastly, you may be required to 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 discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
- ✓Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license.
- ✓Government quarters may be available for occupancy.
- ✓You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
- ✓A uniform allowance will be provided.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 56578b12-08b2-4eee-8cd0-6f59d78b097b
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