District Ranger

Company: Department Of Agriculture
Location: Prineville
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

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Duties

Summary

These positions are located in the Pacific Northwest Region, Region 6 and are located on a Forest Service Ranger District.

The primary purpose of these positions are to serve as a District Ranger with responsibility for the management of resources, goods and services of a designated area on a National Forest.

Information on specific locations where jobs are being filled and the dates when applications are due for these locations may be found at Forest Service website.

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Responsibilities

• Duties listed are at the full performance level.
• Prepare program of work for the management, protection, and development of resources on the assigned unit.
• Establish and implement the development, production, conservation, and utilization of the natural resources of associated lands of the unit.
• Formulate the plans, programs, and objectives for the assigned unit based on overall unit objectives.
• Analyze long-range and short-range action plans to ensure consistency with strategies and program emphasis in the approved forest plan.
• Develop, edit, revise, or review written material about agency programs, environmental analysis, policies, or proposals.
• Provide recommendations and resource information to higher organizational levels concerning programs within the unit.
• Promote unit program objectives and policies to gain support for their implementation.
• Plan and direct the overall work of the unit performed through subordinate supervisors, team leaders, committee chairs or comparable similar personnel.
• Provide leadership, allocate resources, and implement activities to accomplish agency multicultural organization direction and Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights requirement, goals, policies, and objectives.

Travel Required

25% or less - You may be expected to travel for meetings, incidents and/or training.

Supervisory status

Yes

Promotion Potential

13

• Job family (Series)

0340 Program Management

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• 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.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the date certificates are issued. 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.

Specialized Experience Requirement:

For the GS-12 level: Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level. Specialized experience must demonstrate at least two of the following: Represented an organizational unit for the purpose of discussing agency policies and regulations with local, county, and State representatives, civic groups, cooperators, permittees, general public, and/or industry representatives; 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 program for a unit that included developing staffing, budget and equipment needs for program/project accomplishment; and/or provided advice, technical support, and evaluation of proposed and on-going programs to higher-level officials.

For the GS-13 level: Applicant must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level. One year of specialized experience equivalent the GS-12 level: Specialized experience must demonstrate all of the following: Provided counsel to higher organizational levels concerning program issues and their current and anticipated effects; Exercised program responsibilities that included two or more of the following: program development, planning, budgeting, or identifying workforce and organizational needs to establish and meet priorities; Interacted with local, county, and State representatives, civic groups, cooperators, permittees, members of the general public, and industry to discuss, explain, or defend management policies and regulations.

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.

Work Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position.

TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.

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