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Summary Position is located in Boise, ID, at the National Interagency Fire Center. Incumbent coordinates at a highly skilled level with state, regional, national and international levels with other federal agencies which includes senior staff officials from USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Tribal governments, and coordination with state agencies, local governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGO). Responsibilities Provides strategic and operational direction, fire management advice, and leadership for the Center by implementing the LLC strategic mission, core values, vision, and goals. Provides direction and maintains effective processes for gathering, verifying, and analyzing observations and information from a variety of sources, and producing accurate and valid knowledge products, containing lessons and effective practices as they relate to wildland fire operations and other emergency management fields, in a variety of media formats. Identifies opportunities to apply lessons at key upstream points to influence organizational learning on an enterprise scale. Works with partner organizations to orchestrate programmatic change based on identified lessons. Provides leadership and direction in implementing and overseeing all effective collections processes. Ensures data and information is valid and applicable to fire management needs. Coordinates the strategic publicity and communication plan for the LLC through a wide variety of methods and in numerous venues. Ensures applicable lessons and effective practices are well communicated to the wildland fire community, from field firefighters to incident management teams and fire managers at multiple levels. Identifying relevant lessons and effective practices and formatting them in a consumable manner for appropriate levels of the fire workforce. Provides the full range of supervisory responsibilities (administrative and technical) for at least one position. Incumbent provides technical oversight to the LLC staff consisting of: Center Operations Manager (USFS) Technical Writer/Editor (USFS) Field Operations Specialist (USFS) Provides leadership and technical oversight for personnel detailed to LLC and project teams working on specific LLC activities. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males. Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. Prior primary/rigorous wildland firefighting experience is required. You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. Subject to travel up to 7 nights a month, particularly during fire season, and you must obtain a government charge card for travel. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. Qualifications 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. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year - month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount qualified specialized experience. 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. Basic Qualification Requirements: Candidates must possess Primary/Rigorous wildland firefighting experience, gained through fire line work in containment, control, suppression or use of wildland fire. You must clearly demonstrate this experience in your resume, including the months, days and hours per week at which the work was performed in order to be considered. AND In addition to the requirements described above, the following additional experience are required for the grade specified. .For the GS-13 level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level, or higher in the Federal service, or equivalent; Examples of specialized experience include: providing strategic leadership ensuring implementation mission, values, and goals. Has knowledge of the collection and analysis of wildland fire and emergency management data, producing actionable lessons and best practices. Facilitating the integration of these insights across the organization and with partners, while overseeing communication efforts to share key information with the fire community. Providing supervisory responsibilities for staff and project teams, while providing technical oversight and guidance. Secondary Firefighter Retirement Coverage - Applicants for this secondary administrative fire fighter position under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.S.C. 8412 (d), must possess knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of wildland firefighting as demonstrated by direct wildland firefighting experience. In order to receive credit, you must provide a written description of your experience in wildland firefighting. Education without hands-on wildland firefighting experience does not meet this requirement. Periods of wildland firefighting experience, gained through militia and rural fire departments, can also be credited. Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fires as follows: Wildfire: Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires. Prescribed Fires: Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting 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. Education There are no educational qualifications/substitutions for the GW-0456 Wildland Firefighter occupational series at the GS-13 grade level. *PLEASE NOTE - these positions are covered under the new GW pay table specific to Wildland Firefighters. Please see this link for the pay tables: Wildland Firefighter. Additional Information This notice is being issued to recruit personnel to occupations for which a critical hiring need has been identified. To assist in filling these positions, OPM has granted the Department of the Interior "Direct Hire Authority". A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR §575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive. A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. Physical Demands: The work is primarily office oriented but requires periodic outdoor work at field locations. Working Conditions: Work is performed primarily in an office setting, but travel is required throughout the United States for meetings, training, conferences, workshops, and incident management operations. The latter frequently involves exposure to adverse weather conditions, falling tree limbs, heavy smoke and dust, steep terrain, and hazardous aircraft flight operations. The National Park Service has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) OR Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): CTAP/ICTAP provides placement assistance to permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separated. Applicants claiming CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit a copy of their most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF50 noting position, grade level, duty location with their application. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, applicants must be qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors; education, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For Information on CTAP and ICTAP visit: Career Transition (opm.gov)