Job Type: Full-time, on-site
Location: Boise, ID
Salary: $111,707-$145,220/year
Application Due Date: July 9, 2025
Responsibilities:
Oversees a complex fire ecology and fire effects monitoring program that address a wide range of complicated ecosystem and wildland fire management issues.
Coordinates and supports national, regional, and park strategies and procedures to help managers and leadership understand the ecological effects of wildland fire, fire suppression, and fuels management treatments at the landscape scale, and the unit and project level.
Provides or arranges for technical assistance to regions and parks.
Prepares requests for research proposals or statements of work, reviews research proposals, and provides oversight for research projects.
Coordinates with Federal, state, and private research stations, regional fire science and research networks, and universities to obtain assistance and exchange information.
Serves as technical representative for projects conducted through contracts, and interagency and cooperative agreements.
Provides oversight and guidance for NPS units and the use of these protocols and methods.
Serves as an instructor for nationally and locally sponsored courses in fire effects monitoring.
Works with the NPS education staff, including national and regional Fire Communication and Education staff, to incorporate information on fire ecology into park and partner education programs.
Attends fire and resource management meetings, professional conferences, and other events for the purposes of exchanging information and presenting technical and policy information.
Requirements:
Must be able to drive four-wheel drive vehicles.
Must be able to fly as a passenger in helicopters and fixed wing aircraft.
U.S. Citizenship required.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
Must be 18 years of age at time of close date of announcement.
This is a Drug Test Designated Position. You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
Prior primary/rigorous wildland firefighting experience is required.
Willing to live/work in remote locations (volatile/unpredictable).
You will be required to operate a government motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.
You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service fire uniform standards.
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.
Incumbent will be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.
Subject to frequent extended travel up to 14 nights a month particularly during fire season, and you must obtain a government charge card for travel.
Qualifications:
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
Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study in biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences. These hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences.
**NOTE - Transcripts MUST be attached to application package in order to be considered.
In addition to the requirements described above, the following additional experience are required for the grade specified.
For the GW-13 level:
One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS/GW-12 level, or higher in the Federal service, or equivalent; Examples of specialized experience include: Serving in a leadership capacity within a fire management program, such as a Fire Ecologist, Fire Planner, Fuels Program Manager, or Fire Management Officer at the regional level (or equivalent position); Performing program management duties, including the development of work plans and priorities and the formulation and execution of program budgets; Providing guidance on fire management policy and overseeing its implementation; Offering senior-level technical or scientific expertise and consultation; Supporting the integration of the best available science into fire management strategies, plans, and activities; Conducting reviews of fire ecology programs; Evaluating protocols for data collection and monitoring related to fire and ecological management.
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