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Park Ranger (PSAR)
National Park Service · Posted 60 days ago
About the Role
This is a permanent Park Ranger (PSAR), GS-0025-11 position located at Missouri National Recreational River, duty stationed in Yankton, South Dakota.
What You'll Do
- →In the field, provide visitors with information and education to ensure their safety, obtain their cooperation, and facilitate safe visitor use of park resources.
- →Provide administrative, operational, and logistic support to PSAR-related educational activities conducted by the organization in accordance with established practices and precedents.
- →Serve as a member of a Search and Rescue (SAR) Team on events that may require trail response, ground/hasty searches, helicopter evacuations, river rescues, body recoveries, and/or litter carries.
- →Administer first aid and provide out-of-hospital emergency medical care for critical and emergent patients.
- →Respond to and return safely from Emergency Medical Service (EMS) assistance/calls.
- →Physical Demands: The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as climbing, hiking, and lifting heavy objects.
- →Work may be performed on uneven, steep, rough, slippery, and/or rugged terrain.
- →EMS and search and rescue involve walking long distances over rough terrain, carrying heavy loads, and using technical rescue equipment.
- →Going without sleep for long periods of time is a common occurrence.
- →Work Environment: Work is performed in an office setting, classroom, in the field, on trails, and in remote backcountry or wilderness settings.
- →Search and Rescue and EMS work involves frequent exposure to potentially dangerous situations and/or hazardous environments to include hazardous flight landings and takeoffs, extreme outdoor weather conditions, and/or exposure to communicable diseases.
- →Various levels of personal protective clothing are required to perform functions safely.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
- ✓Complete the initial online assessment and USAHire Assessment, if required.
- ✓Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- ✓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.
- ✓Additional Requirements located under Qualifications - As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
- ✓This probationary or trial 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.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking.
Personality Fit
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