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Supervisory Park Ranger (Chief of Interpretation and Resource Management)
National Park Service · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument, in the Division of Interpretation, Education, Volunteers, and Resource Management.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Serves as the chief for interpretation, providing leadership, strategic direction, and oversight for all interpretation, education, outreach, and volunteer programs.
- →Supervises division staff, establishes performance expectations, evaluates work, recommends personnel actions, and ensures employee safety, development, and adherence to National Park Service policies and operational standards.
- →Participates as a key member of the park leadership team, participating in park-wide planning and budget development, setting program priorities, and contributing to short- and long-term operational strategies.
- →Acts as the park's public information officer, managing public communications, media relations, and dissemination of accurate park information.
- →Serves as the park's resource manager, leading cultural and natural resource management activities, ensuring compliance with environmental and historic preservation requirements, and coordinating research, project planning, and resource stewardship actions.
- →For more information about Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument, please visit: Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument (U.S.
- →National Park Service).
- →The employees of the National Park Service care for special places that are the heritage of all Americans.
- →Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service has been dedicated to the preservation and management of this country's outstanding natural, historical, and recreational resources.
- →Park ranger - interpreters connect people to parks.
- →They play a key role in ensuring that visitors have a meaningful, satisfying, and safe park experience, help visitors decide how to spend their time in the park, and inform them about the wonders that await their discovery.
- →Park ranger - interpreters are specially trained to engage the public so that each park visitor can find a personal connection with the meanings and values found in the places and stories of that park.
- →They help visitors explore the many dimensions of parks by introducing them to a variety of perspectives.
- →By providing the opportunity for visitors to care about the places they visit, they promote stewardship and the opportunity for those visitors to care for park resources.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
- ✓Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service); with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).
- ✓Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments.
- ✓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.
- ✓Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 83999d72-713e-4eed-87b8-8653bcf4ee86
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