Description:
The incumbent of this position serves as an Interagency Intelligence Dispatcher providing fire intelligence updates to local dispatch centers, to inform and assist with decision making for the planning and ordering of resources to meet anticipated and ongoing fire needs.
See "Position Information" for additional information regarding this position.
Requirements:
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.
All qualifications and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year - month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount qualified specialized experience. If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualifications or specialized experience a rating of "ineligible" or "not qualified" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted.
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
In addition to the requirements described above, the following additional experience are required for the grade specified.
For the GW-09 level:
Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS/GW-07 grade level. Examples of specialized experience are: Assist in interpreting of fire indices, weather and occurrence patterns and incident history data; Disseminate reports to cooperating agencies and maintained continual provision of intelligence through verbal and written communications; Assist in identifying shortages of critical resources and provided information for determining allocation and priority setting for these critical resources relating to personnel, aircraft, crews, equipment, and supplies; Utilize fire communication and computer systems;
OR
A master's or equivalent graduate degree in a field such as forestry, range management, agriculture;
OR
2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's or equivalent graduate degree, if related (such as forestry, range management, agriculture);
OR
An appropriate combination of specialized experience and education (only graduate education in excess of 18 semester hours may be used to qualify applicants for this grade level). The education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.
For the GW-11 level:
One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS/GW-09 level. Examples of specialized experience are: Identify, analyze, and solve a wide variety of complex operational fire management program problems, such as establish and maintain area incident history data; Interpret fire indices, weather, and occurrence patterns; Prepare and conducted written and verbal briefings for agency administrators, fire management staff, multi-agency coordination groups, and political representatives as well as media, and other specific interest groups; Track and monitor commitment and availability of resources; Institute and maintain a system to status and prioritize incidents and resource allocation; Utilize fire computer programs such as Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN), Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (SIT209), Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), FAMWEB, Weather Information Management System (WIMS), Interagency Resource Ordering Capability (IROC) or equivalent, and Twitter.
OR
3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree (coursework directly related to position being filled such as forestry, range management, agriculture);
OR
An appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D.in a field such as forestry, range management, agriculture).
Secondary Firefighter Retirement Coverage - Applicants for this secondary administrative fire fighter position under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8336 (c) (CSRS) and 5 U.S.C. 8412 (d), must possess knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of wildland firefighting as demonstrated by direct wildland firefighting experience. In order to receive credit, you must provide a written description of your experience in wildland firefighting. Education without hands-on wildland firefighting experience does not meet this requirement. Periods of wildland firefighting experience, gained through militia and rural fire departments, can also be credited. Wildland fire is defined as any non-structure fire that occurs in the wildland. Two distinct types of wildland fire have been defined and include wildfire and prescribed fires as follows: Wildfire : Unplanned ignitions or prescribed fires that are declared wildfires. Prescribed Fires: Planned ignitions. This description includes only fireline experience on a Prescribed Fire; it does not include experience in the planning stages. Prescribed fire experience must be supplemented by fire suppression experience in order to be creditable as previous wildland firefighting experience.
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.
For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.
Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.