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Park Ranger (P) - Law Enforcement Instructor
National Park Service · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
This position, within the Law Enforcement, Security & Emergency Services Division serves as an instructor and course developer in the assigned course areas of law enforcement and/or criminal investigation. This is a not-to-exceed one (1) year temporary promotion/detail assignment. This temporary promotion/detail may be extended without further competition; however, it may not exceed a total of five (5) years. This temporary promotion/detail may be made permanent without further competition.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties of the Park Ranger (Protection) - Law Enforcement Instructor position include, but are not limited to the following: Serves as a senior commissioned law enforcement officer responsible for patrol, investigations, arrests, search and seizure activities, maintaining firearms proficiency, and applying advanced investigative and enforcement techniques.
- →Creates, updates, and evaluates operating plans, standard operating procedures, action plans, and long and shortrange operational strategies to include improvements to program quality and efficiency.
- →Analyzes diverse operational challenges, determines resource requirements, revises program activities to align with funding and leadership priorities, and leads investigations of major incidents or complaints.
- →Conduct research on training topics, develop best practices, write instructional content, and contribute to agency-wide training policies and standards.
- →Promotion Potential: Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.
- →Temporary Promotion Requirements - Career or career-conditional candidates applying for a temporary promotion, must meet all qualification requirements, including time-in-grade qualification requirements.
- →Detail Requirements - Career or career-conditional candidates must meet qualification requirements, however, candidates are not required to meet the time-in-grade qualification requirements of this position.
- →Details also apply to current employees who hold the full performance level of the position (GS-11) or higher grade level on a permanent basis.
- →While on detail, the employee continues to hold their official position from which detailed and keeps the same status and grade.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Must possess a Type I Law Enforcement Commission.
- ✓Direct Deposit: New employees of the Department of the Interior must identify a financial institution for direct deposit of net pay within 30 days of entrance on duty.
- ✓Drug Testing: You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment.
- ✓In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
- ✓Uniform: 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 complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.
- ✓Probationary Period: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year 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.
Benefits
- ★This is a secondary-administrative law enforcement position under the special retirement provisions of 5 U.S.
- ★C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.
- ★C. 8412 (d) (FERS).
- ★PLEASE NOTE: Applicants may meet qualification requirements, but may not be eligible for special retirement coverage.
- ★If such an applicant is selected, they will be placed in the regular retirement system.
- ★To be eligible for Secondary retirement coverage under CSRS, an employee must transfer directly (without a break in service exceeding 3 days) from a primary position to a secondary position.
- ★It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure this office has enough information to determine your special retirement status to ensure you do not lose benefits (normally through submission of your work history or other documentation that demonstrates work history of approved covered positions).
- ★You must let this office know if you are in a Primary position.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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