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Public Safety Dispatcher
National Park Service · Posted 4 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $52K – $83K Apply by Jun 15, 2026 Dispatching ENFJENFPENTPESFP MarketingTransportation
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This position is part of the United States Park Police Services Division, Technical Services Branch. This position ensures effective telecommunications to the Force, other law enforcement and public safety agencies, operational personnel and the public. The incumbent will be responsible for answering 911 - Emergency and Non Emergency calls for service and providing Law Enforcement communications services which operate 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
What You'll Do
- →The major duties of the Public Safety Dispatcher position include, but are not limited to, the following: Serves as a dispatcher for the US Park Police, applying in-depth knowledge of dispatch operating systems, databases, and equipment, as well as knowledge of dispatch policies and past practices to isolate and solve unusual and difficult technical problems.
- →Performs dispatch and call taking services for a wide variety of complex public safety related incidents and operations.
- →Coordinates rescue, ambulance, and helicopter operations, etc., of various agencies.
- →Receives and evaluates emergency calls for service.
- →Provides dispatch support to law enforcement activities.
- →Queries & relays wants, warrants, driver and vehicle status, Be on the Lookout (BOLO), and Attempt to Locate (ATL) information for law enforcement contacts and investigations.
- →Serves as a certified operator of National Criminal Information Network (NCIC), National Law Enforcement Communications System (NLETS), and state criminal information networks (i.e., ACCESS, TLETS, VCIN, etc).
- →Accesses, analyzes, and utilizes information from a variety of national, state, and local databases, Monitors a variety of alarm systems including intrusion, fire, robbery, panic, and maintenance related systems.
- →Analyzes alarms.
- →Ensures appropriate response.
- →Reports on alarm systems troubles.
- →Assists law enforcement officers with investigations.
- →Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
- →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.
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 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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 year probationary period 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.
- ✓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. *Additional Requirements located under qualifications* There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 6d78b72c-ad55-4373-8e42-bfa56fc657b5
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