- Position Title
- Fire Management Officer
- Agency
- Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service
- Announcement Number
- R2-19-10437040-CL-MP Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, March 1, 2019 to Monday, March 25, 2019
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Eligibilities
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Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Assessment 1
Basic Education Requirement
All applicants must meet the following Basic Education Requirements. For each question, choose the response that best describes your education. NOTE: Copies of your transcripts MUST be submitted to document educational accomplishments and MUST list your coursework taken as well as the degree you were awarded and the date this degree was conferred (if applicable). Your answers will be verified by your transcripts. If your transcripts do not show proof of your response, you will be determined to be not qualified for this position.
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Basic Education Requirement
Additional Qualification Requirement
In addition to the Basic Education Requirements, all applicants must meet the following Additional Qualification Requirements to qualify for this position. Please note that in determining your qualifications, your response will be verified against the information you provide in your resume. Therefore, your responses MUST be supported and clearly show possession of the one year specialized experience in your resume. If your resume does not support your response or show this specialized experience, you will be determined as not qualified for this position.
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Additional Qualification Requirement
Selective Factor 1 - NWCG Qualification Requirements
In addition to meeting the Basic Education and Additional Qualification Requirements, all applicants must meet the following NWCG Qualifications Requirements. NOTE: You must submit your Master Record or other equivalent documentation which verifies you meet the required NWCG qualifications for this IFPM position. Failure to provide this documentation will result in you being rated as not qualified.
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Selective Factor 1 - NWCG Qualification Requirements
Selective Factor 2 - Additional NWCG Qualification Requirement
All applicants must meet the following NWCG Qualification Requirement. NOTE: You must submit your Master Record or other equivalent documentation which verifies you meet the required NWCG qualifications for this IFPM position. Failure to provide this documentation will result in you being rated as not qualified.
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Selective Factor 2 - Additional NWCG Qualification Requirement
Selective Factor 3 - 90 days of Previous Wildland Firefighting Experience
In addition to meeting the Basic Education and Additional Qualification Requirements, all applicants must possess the following Mandatory Selective Placement Factor to be considered eligible: 90 days of prior firefighting experience, as gained by service in a primary firefighting (6c) position or equivalent experience outside the Federal Government. For additional information, please see the Vacancy Announcement
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Selective Factor 3 - 90 days of Previous Wildland Firefighting Experience
Knowledge of the policies, techniques and practices of wildland firefighting
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Engage in fighting range, forest, and other wildland fires using hand crews, bulldozers, fire engines, helicopters, and air tankers
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Manage and apply wildland fire planning processes and procedures using highly specialized analytical and technical tools
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Manage the full range of wildland fire operations (safety, preparedness, training, suppression, prescribed fire, facilities, equipment, and medical standards)
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Prepare decision support documents using systems such as the wildland fire decision support system (wfdss)
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Serve as a unit fire program manager (fmo) or higher for a federal wildland fire agency
Knowledge of accepted wildland fire safety practices and procedures
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Coordinate and initiates all fire management activities based on firefighter and public safety, cost effectiveness, and values to be protected consistent with resource objectives
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Develop and direct field training exercises for firefighters in safety and fire suppression tactics
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Establish and maintain an active presence in wildland fire mitigation/urban interface programs with other cooperating entities at local levels
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Implement a firefighter safety program to ensure that firefighter and public safety are the number one priority of all fire management operations
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Plan and implements firebreaks and hazardous fuels projects to reduce or eliminate wildland fuel sources to contain wildfires or mitigate the threat to communities
Knowledge of natural resource management, fire ecology, fire behavior, and fire management theories, concepts, principles, and standards in a wildland fire environment.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Develop prescribed fire plans to meet program goals and objectives through prescription parameters and operation strategies and tactics.
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Establish priorities for hazardous fuels management treatments based on ecologic and economic effectiveness
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Ensure that the fuels management plan is consistent with ecosystem management principles and land use plans and is applied on a landscape basis
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Ensure the fire management program is in compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and policies
Knowledge of supervisory policies, procedures, and methods in order to manage a diverse workforce.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Organize and direct personnel to meet local, geographic, or national level fire program management needs.
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Coordinate operations with partnering agencies on multi-jurisdictional wildland fires.
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Develop and manage Fire Management Operations including mobilization and dispatch, fire prevention, training and qualifications, logistics, equipment, needs, replacement and deployment, and fire suppression communications.
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Develop employee performance standards and evaluate work performance.
Knowledge of budgeting policy, procedures and techniques sufficient to develop program budgets and annual work plans.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Develop budget estimates and annual work plans for pre-suppression, prevention, fuels management, and prescribed fire
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Evaluate requests for funding using Rural Fire Assistance (RFA) funds, and facilitate movement of funds to local entities
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Develop and administer grants and agreements (e.g., Emergency Equipment Rental Agreements, mutual assistance, and Rural Fire Assistance)
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Develop severity requests and manage staffing levels and assignments based on severity predictions and funding
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Use computer programs, models, and databases such as WIMS, FireBase, BEHAVE, Fire Family Plus, FMIS, and NFPORS to prepare annual budgets
Ability to communicate orally with diverse groups and individuals to achieve fire management goals and objectives
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Negotiate cooperative fire agreements and contracts relating to fire management issues with various state and local fire control agencies
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Communicate appropriate, accurate, and timely fire information to internal and external audiences.
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Deliver formal briefings and presentations to fire manager, incident management teams, and agency staff.
Ability to communicate in writing to prepare fire management plants and reports
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Write fire management plans.
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Prepare written reports on natural resource issues pertaining to fire management.
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Write prescribed burn plans.
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Write wildland fire implementation plans and fire situation analyses for wildland fires.
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Use fire-related computer programs, existing fire research databases and applications to compile historical reports and develop burn prescriptions.