- Position Title
- Outdoor Recreation Planner
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Announcement Number
- AKDE-24-12215590-JE Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, November 27, 2023 to Friday, December 8, 2023
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Career Transition Assistance Plan: Do you meet ALL of the following eligibilities?
- I am a current or former competitive federal employee displaced or surplused from the Department of the Interior; AND
- I am located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
- I am applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which I have been or will be separated; AND
- My last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
3.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan: Do you meet ALL of the following eligibilities?
- I am a current or former competitive federal employee displaced from a position in a federal agency other than the Department of the Interior; AND
- I am located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
- I am currently in a position at the same grade level or higher than the position being announced; AND
- My last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
4.
Reasonable Accommodations for taking the online assessments are provided on a case-by-case basis only to qualified individuals with a disability covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
Do you have a disability (physical or mental) that you believe will interfere with completing the online assessments and require a Reasonable Accommodation?
Preferences
1.
Select the lowest grade you are willing to accept for this position.
2.
My resume contains the beginning and ending dates (month/year to month/year), hours per week, and grade level (if federal service) for each period of work experience/employment. I understand failure to adequately include this information may affect my qualification determination for this announcement.
Assessment 1
Minimum Qualification
1.
From the descriptions below, select the one response that best describes how your background meets the basic requirements for Outdoor Recreation Planner, GS-0023-09 series.
2.
From the descriptions below, select the one response that best describes how your background meets the basic requirements for Outdoor Recreation Planner, GS-0023-11 series.
Technical Competence. Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on the job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job, advises others on technical issues.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
3.
Compile and interpret scientific, technical and policy information for land use planning efforts.
4.
Develop project mitigation and monitoring techniques to reduce environmental impacts from recreation programs.
5.
Resolve conflicting land use needs or changing requirements using planning techniques such as land use planning or resource allocation.
6.
Evaluate visitor experience, user capacity, and resource protection opportunities to manage visitor recreation experiences on public land.
7.
Identify condition and needs for recreation facilities such as trails, campgrounds, and public use waysides.
INSTRUCTION: Planning and Evaluating. Determines objectives and strategies; coordinates with other parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors and evaluates the progress and outcomes of operational plans. Anticipates potential threats or opportunities.
INSTRUCTION: Planning and Evaluating. Determines objectives and strategies; coordinates with other parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors and evaluates the progress and outcomes of operational plans. Anticipates potential threats or opportunities.
8.
Develop a reasonable range of alternative and optional approaches for addressing recreation and visitor needs, and to address land use planning issues.
9.
Determine information needs critical to informed environmental planning and decision-making.
10.
Participate as a team member on diverse interdisciplinary teams comprised of resource specialists of wide-ranging responsibilities.
11.
Participate as team member in planning and implementation of public recreation facilities such as trails, corrals, campgrounds, waysides, and interpretive sites.
Compliance Inspection. Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with compliance inquiries, including application of compliance rules and criteria and ability to make appropriate decisions and issue citations, fines, and orders.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
12.
Maintain courtesy and rapport with individuals and groups when contacting them to gain their cooperation (e.g., when contacting individuals or groups who are behaving in an unsafe way, or are not in compliance with rules, in order to obtain their compliance.)
13.
Prepare terms and conditions and stipulations for special recreation permits and concessionaires.
14.
Serve as a front-line representative of an organization greeting visitors of public lands; answering questions; and responding to comments, concerns, problems and/or complaints following established guidelines.
Partnering. Develops networks and builds alliances, collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
15.
Build and maintain cooperative working relationships with concessionaires, co-workers and agency partners.
16.
Serve as a team leader with a diverse group of partners to achieve agency goals.
17.
Identify and participate as an agency representative in community and volunteer organizations with interests related to recreation on public land.
18.
Participate and/or hold memberships in professional organizations focused on aspects of recreation on public land.
Public Planning. Knowledge of functions, principles, methods, and techniques of public planning, including those related to community planning, outdoor recreation planning, and natural resource management, such as demand forecasting, environmental impacts analysis, financial forecasting, and land use planning and zoning.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
19.
Develop methodologies to evaluate technical and/or scientific information and predict environmental effects.
20.
Prepare sections of Environmental Assessments (EAs) or Environmental impact Statements (EISs).
21.
Develop and implement public involvement in NEPA processes.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
22.
I am able and willing to walk over rough or mountainous terrain, off-highway vehicle riding, use of small aircraft, recurring bending, crouching, or stooping or similar activities, with possible exposure to inclement weather such as rain, cold, and heat.
23.
Are you able and willing to camp and/or live in remote and primitive conditions, to include sleeping in a tent and preparing your own food, while doing fieldwork for up to 5 days per month?
24.
Your rating is subject to verification based on the application materials that you submit, and through verification of references as appropriate. A deliberate attempt to falsify information on your application materials is grounds for non-selection and for termination. In addition, falsifying information on your application can result in your being barred from Federal Employment. Please choose the appropriate response below.