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Supervisory Park Ranger (P)
National Park Service · Posted today
About the Role
This position is located in El Malpais National Monument, in the Visitor and Resource Protection.
What You'll Do
- →All other rocks in America combined do not hold as much history as the cuesta that dominated the 1,200 acres of New Mexico's El Morro National Monument.
- →Rising 200 feet above the valley floor this massive sandstone bluff with its reliable waterhole hidden at its base welcomed weary travelers and the human history inscribed upon the rock and preserved in the ancient ruins, makes El Morro National Monument a handbook of cultural history of the Southwest.
- →At an elevation of 7,219 feet, temperatures range from 90+ degrees in summer to below zero in winter. http://www.nps.gov/elmo/ El Malpais National Monument consists of 114,748 acres of lava fields, cinder cones, lava tubes, ice caves, sculptured sandstone formations, and ponderosa, pinon and juniper forests.
- →Approximately 85% of the park (97,000 acres) is managed as wilderness.
- →Elevation ranges from 6,600 to 8,372 feet, and temperatures range from 90+ degrees in summer to winter extreme lows of below zero.
- →El Malpais National Monument (U.S.
- →National Park Service) The administrative headquarters is located in the town of Grants, New Mexico (pop.10,000) within Cibola County (pop. 25-27,000), and all services are available in the local community including the New Mexico State University-Grants Branch and the Cibola General Hospital.
- →Albuquerque, New Mexico is located 75 miles to the east on I-40, while Gallup, New Mexico is situated 65 miles west along I-40 or the 602 from the El Morro area.
- →For further information about the area visit the Grants Chamber of Commerce at http://www.grants.org/.
- →As a Supervisory Park Ranger (Protection), you will perform the following Major Duties: Serve as Federal Law Enforcement Officer performing duties including detection and investigation of violations of federal criminal laws.
- →Performs short- and long-term management planning including budget formulation and execution and setting division goals and priorities.
- →Supervise and manage law enforcement and resources protection programs and Visitor and Resource Protection employees.
- →Serve as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer, responsible for detecting, investigating, and documenting violations of federal criminal laws.
- →Lead both short- and long-term strategic planning initiatives, including budget development, financial execution, and establishing division-wide goals and priorities.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship required.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
- ✓Subject to pre-employment physical and drug testing.
- ✓Must possess a Type I or higher Law Enforcement Commission.
- ✓New employees of the Department of the Interior must identify a financial institution for direct deposit of net pay within 30 days of entrance on duty.
- ✓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).
- ✓Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
- ✓Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
- ✓Selectee(s) will be required to carry a firearm while performing duties and maintain firearm proficiency.
- ✓Selectee(s) must be free of any domestic violence convictions.
- ✓Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Failure to successfully meet these requirements will be grounds for termination.
- ✓You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment.
Benefits
- ★This is a secondary-administrative law enforcement position under the special retirement provisions of 5 U.S.
- ★C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.
- ★C. 8412 (d) (FERS).
- ★PLEASE NOTE: Applicants may meet qualification requirements, but may not be eligible for special retirement coverage.
- ★If such an applicant is selected, they will be placed in the regular retirement system.
- ★To be eligible for Secondary retirement coverage under CSRS, an employee must transfer directly (without a break in service exceeding 3 days) from a primary position to a secondary position.
- ★It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure this office has enough information to determine your special retirement status to ensure you do not lose benefits (normally through submission of your work history or other documentation that demonstrates work history of approved covered positions).
- ★You must let this office know if you are in a Primary position.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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