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Park Ranger (Interpretation)
National Park Service · Posted 63 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Bandelier National Monument in the LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, Division of Interpretation. Open to the first 25 applicants or until 07/18/2026 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.
What You'll Do
- →Interpretation and Communication: Develops and presents formal interpretive experiences to engage the public, makes informal visitor contacts, produces a variety of interpretive media, and engages with various audiences through digital content.
- →Visitor Services and Facility Operation: Coordinates day-to-day operation of visitor facility, including developing work schedules, answering visitor questions, demonstrating effective customer service, providing visitor information through interpretive media, assessing facilities, and reporting damage or malfunctions.
- →Training and Education: Develops lesson plans for curriculum based education, delivers education programs in schools and in park, and coaches, mentors, or trains other park staff, interns, volunteers, or partners.
- →Safety: Promote personal, visitor, and co-worker safety by including risk assessments in all operational decisions and actions.
- →Statistical Reporting and Analysis: Tracks, reports, and analyzes visitor use statistics to improve visitor services and recommends changes to procedures, interpretive products, and visitor services in response to suggestions, complaints and evolving visitor use patterns.
- →Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
- →Bandelier National Monument is comprised of over 32,817 acres, including a designated wilderness area of 23,267 acres and an 800-acre detached archeological section.
- →The monument was created to preserve the numerous archeological and natural features that hold ancestral and traditional significance to 23 tribal nations.
- →The monument's natural resources have been extensively surveyed and hold some of the most complete data sets for climate transition that exist in North America.
- →Annual visitation exceeds 200,000.
- →The monument is located 45 miles from Santa Fe, 32 miles from Espanola, and 12 miles from Los Alamos.
- →Elevation ranges from 5,300 to 10,199 feet with headquarters located at 6,000 feet.
- →Medical facilities, schools, and shopping are available in Los Alamos and White Rock.
- →Los Alamos has one of the nation's best public-school systems.
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 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 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 work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
- ✓You may be required to travel overnight away from home occasionally.
- ✓You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
- ✓You may be required to handle money 5% of your duties.
Personality Fit
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