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Supervisory Park Ranger (I)
National Park Service · Posted 61 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Park Service - Southeast, Division of Interpretation & Visitor Services located in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. Salary: GS-9: $61,722 - $80,2436 per annum First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.
What You'll Do
- →At the full performance level GS-9, the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Supervising a large interpretative staff that will be researching, developing, and presenting interpretive programs including evening programs both on and off-site, crawling tours through rugged off-trail cave environments.
- →Scheduling, planning daily operations, organizing special events, supervising interns, and volunteers, overseeing development of interpretive media, and training new employees.
- →Provide visitor orientation to park resources.
- →Deals with visitors from various socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds resolving visitor comments and issues.
- →Crawling, climbing, and squeezing through small cave passages may be required at times.
- →Must be able to deal with emergency situations.
- →Position requires night, weekend, and holiday work.
- →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
- ✓Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
- ✓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 be able to possess and maintain a valid driver's license.
- ✓You are required to wear a uniform and comply with uniform standards.
- ✓A uniform allowance will be provided.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
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