Fire Program Assistant - Direct Hire Authority

Full Job Description

One position being filled at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, duty location Sequoia NP, CA, servicing wildland fire and aviation management personnel.

The incumbent provides a variety of administrative, operations and technical functions in support of fire management activities.

For additional questions about this position, or duty location, please contact Cinnamon Gully at Cinnamon_Gulley@nps.gov.

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.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience.

To receive credit for experience, your 2 page resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time or part-time, hours must be included).

If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.

Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. You may only submit one resume.

Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section will be used to determine your qualifications/eligibility and for rating purposes.

In the event you submit more than one resume, only the latest submission will be reviewed.

If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualifications or specialized experience a rating of "ineligible" or "not qualified" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: For the GS-05 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-04 level in the Federal service or equivalent.

Examples of specialized experience include: Performing a wide range of clerical and administrative support functions for fire management operations within an organization.

Preparing reports using spreadsheet software and drafting, proofreading, and formatting correspondence, memoranda, and reports with attention to grammatical and punctuation accuracy.

Coordinating travel arrangements for fire management personnel and prepared travel authorizations and vouchers in support of fire operations.

Maintaining time and attendance records and coordinated tour of duty schedules for fire management staff.

Tracking, processing, and filing fire management qualification records, documents, and correspondence in accordance with established standards.

Ordering and maintaining office supplies and fire-related equipment, managed property inventory records, and performed other comparable administrative tasks, including receiving and routing mail.

-OR- Successful completion of at least four years of education above high school.

One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school.

Transcripts must be attached to application package. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above.

NOTE: Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements.

Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to l year of specialized experience. Transcripts must be attached to application package.

Volunteer Experience: 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. Major Duties:

Performs accounting, budget, or financial management support duties related to recurring or standardized fire program transactions. Monitors accounts and sub-account balances for fire activities.

Maintains and/or updates logs, spreadsheets, and/or databases that track fire program information. Submits micro-purchase requests for the fire program office.

Receives acquisition requests from employees, reviews them for accurate account numbers, object codes, justification etc. before sending them to the Contracting Officer.

Prepares required personnel forms for hiring and terminating fire management temporary employees.

Maintains fire qualification records and issues red card certificates to qualifying employees upon approval by the Fire Management Officer. Prepares payroll for fire program employees.

Prepares travel documents in the automated travel system for fire program employees, including authorizations and vouchers (from traveler's receipts).

Operates dispatch function radio communication equipment.