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Park Ranger (I)
National Park Service · Posted 55 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, in the Division of Interpretation.
What You'll Do
- →Develop and present formal and informal audience and learner-centered interpretive experiences using interpretive skills, techniques, and tools delivered in-person and through interpretive media and technology.
- →Conduct straightforward research, develop, and present interpretive programs on a variety of interpretive and educational themes.
- →Enhance in-park experiences by developing and offering a wide variety of fully accessible nonpersonal services and interpretive media.
- →Contribute engaging and quality content that harnesses the power of digital platforms and creates valuable, audience-centered interpretive experiences that are relevant to the message and audience and rooted in existing digital strategies.
- →Review existing park policies, standards, methods, controls, and procedures.
- →Actively engage and interact with local communities through on and off-site representation and interpretive programming.
- →Identify and engage with new audiences and communities.
- →Plan, schedule, prepare and effectively conduct education programs; workshops, seminars, and conferences to promote the parks education program, to include distance learning.
- →Coordinate the park volunteer program.
- →Assess park needs and prepare relevant volunteer job descriptions.
- →Post available volunteer positions where appropriate, including the official online recruitment portal, and schedule and conduct interviews of potential volunteers.
- →Select, train, and schedule new volunteers; supervise, recognize, evaluate, and provide regular feedback to volunteers.
- →Plan, distribute, and monitor work assignments; evaluate work performance and provide feedback to others on their performance.
- →Communicate effectively and apply interpersonal skills.
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 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 complete training and operate a four-wheel drive vehicle.
- ✓You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards.
- ✓A uniform allowance will be provided.
- ✓You may be required to weekends.
- ✓This position has an intermittent work schedule; you will be subject to call and will have no pre-scheduled work schedule.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 6592f648-4d41-42f8-92f2-e3f7ffb7326a
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