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Recreation Management Specialist
Forest Service · Posted 59 days ago
On-site Ketchum, ID $62K – $97K Apply by Aug 10, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ
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This position is located on the Sawtooth National Forest, in either Ketchum or Stanley, ID. This position is responsible for planning, developing, administering and executing work plans and projects for wilderness, recreation, trails, and special uses activities. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Michael Fuller at michael.fuller2@usda.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Duties listed at the full performance level of this position, GS-11.
- →Projects the cost of each program based on staffing, equipment, and supply needs.
- →Collects data, analyzes program needs, and recommends action to maintain a balanced budget for the unit's programs.
- →Strategizes, develops, and reviews proposals for new projects, or proposed revisions of existing plans or activities, and recommends action.
- →Analyzes and determines the effects of proposed recreation activities on natural resources and prepares environmental assessments and reports to document findings.
- →Coordinates with other natural resource disciplines to ensure program requirements are included in the project planning and execution.
- →Develops and advises on the development of annual and long-range management plans in compliance with agency guidelines and direction.
- →Reviews and synthesizes complex permit applications, and background data to prepare and issue draft/final/modified permits, fact sheets, and public notices.
- →Provides expertise and advice in the administration of wilderness, recreation, trails, special uses, and related programs and management activities.
- →Performs supervisory duties less than 20% 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.
- ✓See above for education that may be qualifying for the specific grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 19782354-5c01-42a6-b0f2-ebf304acdf4d
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