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Wildland Firefighter (Fire Management Planning)
Forest Service · Posted 49 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within a Forest Service unit in the Eastern Geographic Area (formally Region 9). The Incumbent is a technical expert developing fire planning policies and procedures for the Geographic Area Fire Director or Deputy, and provides oversight and coordination to national forests and grasslands within the Geographic Area. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Joe Alyea at Joseph.Alyea@usda.gov or Brian Hicks at brian.a.hicks@usda.gov.
What You'll Do
- →Duties listed are at full performance grade GW-13 level.
- →Provides program leadership and consultation for strategic fire management planning, assessments (e.g., wildland fire risk, prevention, etc.), and interagency and/or unit Fire Management Plan (FMP) development.
- →Develops, plans, and provides fire management alternatives in coordination with Washington Office and Geographic Area staff.
- →Provide program management direction and expertise for interagency and/or national forest and grasslands fire planning efforts.
- →Provides guidance to the field units on collection and evaluation of fire hazard risk, fuels, historic fire occurrence, fire effects, climatology and weather.
- →Coordinates the Geographic Area annual fire management program budget, integrates the budget with other program budgets to meet unit operation goals, and ensures that the fire management program budget is distributed.
- →Performs supervisory duties less than 20% of the time.
Requirements
- ✓There is no education substitution for this position.
Personality Fit
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