- Position Title
- Financial Specialist
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Announcement Number
- NPS-24-AI-002(MP) Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Tuesday, January 2, 2024 to Tuesday, January 9, 2024
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Do you wish to be considered under CTAP?
To be eligible for Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), a person must:
Be a current or former permanent competitive status DOI federal employee displaced from a position in the same local commuting area of the vacancy with a current (or last) performance rating of record of at least fully successful or the equivalent.
To claim eligibility under CTAP, you must submit the following documentation with your application:
Copies of the appropriate documentation which includes:
- Reduction in force (RIF) separation notice;
- SF-50 reflecting your RIF separation, or a notice of proposed removal for declining a directed reassignment or transfer of function to another commuting area;
- You MUST also submit documentation to reflect your current (or last) performance rating of record.
2.
Are you a current career/career-conditional Department of the Interior Federal employee and meet the following Competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Department of the Interior Federal employee with a career or career- conditional appointment in the competitive service that holds, or have held a career or career-conditional position at a lower grade level as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Department of the Interior Federal employee, you must provide a copy of your current Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Department of The Interior employee. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
Current Department of the Interior Federal employee with a career or career- conditional appointment in the competitive service that holds, or have held a career or career-conditional position at a lower grade level as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a current Department of the Interior Federal employee, you must provide a copy of your current Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Department of The Interior employee. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
3.
Do you wish to be considered under Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA)?
If you're a current or former Land Management employee (Land management agencies include The Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Reclamation), who worked in a term or temporary job, you may be eligible to apply to merit promotion jobs at any federal agency.
Two groups of individuals are potentially eligible for appointment, including current and/or former employees serving or served under time-limited competitive appointments at land management agencies (as defined above). Land Management Eligibles (LME's) must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Current land management agency appointees:
- must have initially been hired under competitive examining procedures to the time-limited appointment,
- must have served under one (1) or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two (2) or more years, and
- must have performed at an acceptable level during each period of service.
• Former land management agency appointees:
- must have initially been hired under competitive examining procedures to the time-limited appointment,
- must have served under one (1) or more time-limited appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two (2) or more years,
- must have performed at an acceptable level throughout the service period(s),
- must apply for a position covered by these provisions within two (2) years after their most recent date of separation, and
- must have been separated, with respect to their most recent separation, for reasons other than misconduct or performance.
Note: A former employee, who otherwise meets the requirements for eligibility, shall be deemed an employee of the agency from which the former employee was most recently separated.
To claim eligibility under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA), you must submit the following documentation with your application:
- SF-50(s) showing the above criteria
- Employee Performance Appraisal (Employee Performance Ratings or equivalent)
For more information the LMWFA, please click here
4.
Are you a current career/career-conditional Department of the Interior Federal employee and meet the following Non-competitive Merit Promotion Eligibility:
Current Department of the Interior Federal employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service that hold, or have previously held a career or career-conditional position at the same or higher grade level with the same or higher promotion potential as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a Department of the Interior Federal employee, you must provide a copy of your current Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Department of the Interior employee. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
Current Department of the Interior Federal employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service that hold, or have previously held a career or career-conditional position at the same or higher grade level with the same or higher promotion potential as the position being announced.
To verify your eligibility as a Department of the Interior Federal employee, you must provide a copy of your current Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) reflecting your competitive status showing that you are a current Department of the Interior employee. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
5.
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.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your resume and correct documents are uploaded and received. Please, verify during the application process on the "application review page" that you have uploaded the appropriate documentation as stated in the required documents section of the vacancy announcement. No documentation will be accepted after the closing date of the announcement. I understand that it is my responsibility that I must submit a resume and all required supporting documentation prior to the closing date of the announcement.
3.
What attracted you to this position?
4.
If you have ever held a Federal position please indicate your pay plan, highest grade held, and dates held below (e.g. GS-13; 08/15/11 - 08/15/12). If applying based on noncompetitive eligibility and if you do not have prior Federal service, please type "N/A" in the text box below.
(limit 100 characters)
5.
Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement have the option to have their application, associated documents and applicable personal information shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) that have vacancies within the same occupational series, grade, promotion potential and in the same geographic location(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive consideration. If you select "yes", your information could potentially be shared with other bureaus if there is a need to fill another position. If you select "no", your information will NOT be shared with other bureaus. Do you agree to have your information shared with other bureaus?
6.
My performance is at an acceptable level and I am not serving under a formal Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).
Assessment 1
Please note that you will only be considered for the eligibility option(s) for which you select. You may select more than one option of consideration, if applicable. If the required documentation is not received by the closing date of the announcement, you will be found ineligible for the position and will be removed from further review. A resume is required for ALL consideration options.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
I certify that I have read each of the referral eligibilities identified in this announcement and I have selected the eligibility or eligibilities that I wish to be considered. I understand that failure to identify an eligibility or eligibilities will result in loss of consideration for this announcement. I understand that I must submit all required documentation to verify my eligibility by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
Thank you for your interest in this vacancy. Please select the response that best reflects how you meet the qualification requirements for this position.
2.
Select the statement that most closely matches your experience as defined in the vacancy announcement for the GS-07 grade level.
3.
Select the statement that most closely matches your experience as defined in the vacancy announcement for the GS-09 grade level.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
4.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level reviewing, entering, analyzing and reconciling financial information and/or accounting data for validity, completeness and accuracy on work assignments encompassed in accounts receivable and/or accounts payable functions?
5.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level performing a full range of financial and accounting duties in accordance with legal and statutory requirements?
6.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level responding to internal and external customers regarding financial operations and/or accounting-related issues and/or inquiries?
7.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level reviewing, entering, analyzing and reconciling financial information and/or accounting data for validity, completeness and accuracy on work assignments encompassed in accounts receivable and/or accounts payable functions?
8.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level performing a full range of financial and accounting duties in accordance with legal and statutory requirements?
9.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level responding to internal and external customers regarding financial operations and/or accounting-related issues and/or inquiries?
10.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level providing technical support and advice to the team leads and supervisors on abnormal accounts and/or transactions for corrective actions?
11.
Do you have at least one year of experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level generating and/or downloading financial system reports and/or files for reconciliation to support month-end, year-end closing, customer and management needs?