Job Listing
Program Specialist
Forest Service · Posted 59 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $106K – $164K Apply by Aug 10, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
Apply for this job → About the Role
This Research Program Specialist position is located in a Forest Service Research and Development unit that serves as senior advisor for a the Deputy Chief Research and Development program area that involves the formulation, programming and guidance of projects or continuing programs of great difficulty, significance, and critical importance. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Valerie Hipkins at Valerie.Hipkins@usda.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Duties are listed at the GS-14 grade level.
- →Serves as the program authority and principal advisor to Forest Service Leadership for a program or specialty area of great importance and significance to the Agency.
- →Formulates, programs, and provides national policies, objectives, and standards on projects or assigned program.
- →Develops and promulgates long term and annual program budget goals and objectives for assigned program consistent with agency program goals.
- →Actively seeks and builds public and private sector partnerships to promote effective program opportunities.
- →Serves as liaison, maintaining productive working relationships between policy makers of interagency teams and Forest Service counterparts to resolve mutual problems and develop integrated strategic approaches for problem resolution.
- →Supervises 20% or less of the time.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may 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.
- ✓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.
- ✓There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 183c2caa-3c3e-4c35-a8a9-9835dc3651db
Posted via USAJobs