Position Summary:
This position serves as a Deputy District Ranger with responsibility for the management of the resources, personnel, goods, and services of a designated area on a National Forest/Grassland.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as an alter-ego to the District Ranger sharing responsibility for providing technical and administrative direction to all activities of a designated area on a National Forest/Grassland.
- Oversee the inventory, planning, evaluation, and management of each forest/grassland resource including timber, soil, land, water, wildlife and fish habitat, minerals, forage, wilderness and visual areas, and outdoor recreation.
- Plan work to be accomplished, set, and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work.
- Work in collaboration with communities and partners.
- Clearly communicate decisions and take care to explain actions in the larger context of our Forest Service mission and purpose.
- Build community, welcome diverse and new perspectives, remain invested and stay informed of current social, political, and economic issues and concerns within assigned geographical area.
- Oversee the planning, budgeting, and management information for identifying work force and organizational needs, and unit priorities.
- Serve as a steward for a designated Forest Service area and embodies the agency?s core values in service to the Forest Service mission and complete duties in a way that is trustworthy, caring, respectful, responsive, curious, and inclusive.
- Develop and monitor performance standards, provide advice and counsel, hear and resolve minor complaints, address minor grievances, identify and provide training; and recommend appointments, promotions, and reassignment actions.
Required Education & Experience:
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- One year of specialized experience equivalent the GS-11 level in federal service defined as one or more of the following: Represented an organizational unit for the purpose of discussing agency policies and regulations with the general public, representatives from local, county, State, Federal and Tribal governments, permittees, industry, special interest groups, or other partners; Developed annual program of work, prepared project work plans, developed long- and short-term budget needs, set priorities and documented work progress and accountability for assigned programs; Planned, implemented, and administered a natural resources program (e.g., timber management program) for a unit that included developing staffing, budget and equipment needs for program/project accomplishment;
- Provided advice, technical support, and evaluation of proposed and on-going natural resource programs to higher-level officials.
- Selectee is subject to financial disclosure requirements and must submit form OGE-450, Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, within 30 days of appointment and annually thereafter.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
- Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.