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Permits Specialist
National Park Service · Posted today
Hybrid Grand Canyon, AZ $62K – $80K Apply by Oct 9, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
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You will serve as a Permits Specialist with National Park Service. This announcement is open to career transition eligibles (Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) and Reemployment Priority List (RPL)) ONLY.
What You'll Do
- →Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Serve as primary contact for Grand Canyon National Park's large and complex Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) and secondarily for the Special Park Uses (SPU) Programs.
- →Recommend and/or provide CUA program guidance; strategy and annual work plans.
- →Collaborates, supports, and implements regional and service-wide changes to Programs.
- →Responsible for the issuance of over 700 Commercial Use Authorizations, including permits for in-park tours, equipment rental, day hiking, bicycling, and overnight backpacking.
- →Supports issuance of Special Park Uses Permits, including permits for special events, weddings, burials in the park's Pioneer Cemetery, and First Amendment activities in throughout the park.
- →Grand Canyon National Park's commercial services program is one of the most complex programs in the National Park Service (NPS) and one of the largest in terms of concessioners' annual gross receipts.
- →The Division is responsible for the following programs: Concession Contracts (22), Commercial Use Authorizations (700+), Special Park Uses, Rights-of-Way and procurement contracts associated with the park transportation (shuttle) system.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
- ✓Must obtain and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓You are required to wear a uniform intermittently and comply with the 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 up to 5-10 nights per year.
- ✓You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.
- ✓You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority.
Personality Fit
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