National Fire Danger Rating System Program Manager

About this role

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education.

Provide course descriptions as necessary. Basic Requirement: Degree: Biological Sciences, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major course of study in biological sciences, agriculture or natural resources management, chemistry or at least 24 semester hours in biological sciences, natural resources, wildland fire management, forestry, or agriculture equivalent to a major field of study, plus appropriate experience or additional education that is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in the biological sciences, agriculture, or natural resources.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Specialized Experience Requirement: GW-12: Applicant must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GW-11 level. Examples of specialized experience may include: Assisted with developing fire management plans with diverse and/or unprecedented elements for ecological soundness and technical adequacy; Assisted with extensive field inspections before and after prescribed or wildland fires to determine if resource objectives were achieved and/or to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken; Developed complex and difficult analyses on the ecological role of fire and its use and/or exclusion, and smoke management; Assisted with complex prescribed fire/fuels management activities requiring coordination with cooperating agencies, such as using professional forest or range inventory methods, (e.g., Brown's planar intercept for dead and down fuels or live loading assessments; analysis of fuel loadings and determining fuel treatment methods and programming; land use planning and environmental coordination; evaluation of prescribed burn plans or fire management plans for fire containment and identification of suppression contingencies if containment is not obtained).