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Supervisory Park Ranger (Protection) - Law Enforcement Specialist
National Park Service · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, in the Division of Visitor and Resource Protection. For more information about the position or the park, please contact Alexander_Van_Vechten@nps.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: This position serves as the park Law Enforcement Specialist (LES), supervises several subordinates, and is accountable to the Chief Ranger.
- →Conducts investigations and takes law enforcement actions on cases that represent the entire spectrum of CFR, Federal, and State laws.
- →Cases will be complex, of high magnitude, and frequently involve matters of a sensitive nature.
- →Serves as legal advisor and law enforcement technical expert to the law enforcement patrol staff, park managers, other NPS divisions, and local agencies.
- →Manages the park's physical and digital evidence programs.
- →Serves as division training officer by coordinating all required law enforcement training, scheduling goals and standards, selecting advanced instructorships, and ensuring year end requirements are met.
- →Analyzes law enforcement performance to determine training needs and develops programs to improve performance.
- →Serves as the park's primary liaison with 15 local, state, and Federal law enforcement agencies and with the office of the US Attorney's office, Office of the Solicitor and other state and local courts and District Attorney's offices.
- →Serves as incident commander or command staff for joint operations with other law enforcement agencies during emergency law enforcement incidents, demonstrations, and large-scale special events.
- →Directs NPS Law Enforcement participating on joint task force special operations for a variety of crimes.
- →This is a supervisory law enforcement position.
- →As a Commissioned Ranger, you will be responsible for performing law enforcement duties including detection, investigation, apprehension, and prosecution under applicable laws, rules, and regulations enacted to insure the protection and safe use of National Park resources.
- →You will also educate, interpret, and inform visitors about resources, conservation, laws, and regulations.
- →Collateral duties may include field training, emergency medical services, special response, technical rescue, swift water rescue, and helicopter rescue.
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.
- ✓In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
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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