The Regional Director, Southeast Region provides leadership to multiple diverse units of the National Park System in nine Southeastern states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands with nationally recognized coastal and marine resources. The selectee will be responsible for the following:

• Managing programs associated with interpretation, use, development, protection, maintenance and environmental quality.
• Managing programs involving the maintenance of standards in regard to engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, history, archeology, forestry and natural and cultural resources.
• Managing a broad spectrum of partnership programs.
• Ensuring best practices in business management to protect park resources and provide visitor and community services.
• Directing, identifying, and correcting visitor and job safety.
• Directing park operations related to administration, including human resource management and equal opportunity; and
• Providing leadership in NPS civic initiatives, promoting public involvement and dialogue in key planning, interpretation, education and preservation issues.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret clearance. Selectees may be required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use.
• Males must meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement.
• You will be required to make occasional travel.
• Selections are subject to Department approval. Initial appointments to the SES must have ECQs certified by an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Review Board prior to appointment and will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Agencies must request OPM approval to appoint the current or former (within five-years) Executive Branch political appointees to permanent competitive service, non-political excepted service, or career SES position. Please make note in your application package if you have held any of these positions within the last five years.
• The applicant selected for this position will be required to file a Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278, and the supplemental form, Confidential Statement of Employment and Financial Interest. All forms must be filed within 30 days after the selection for this position.

Qualifications

The Regional Director, Southeast Region provides leadership with responsibility to oversee more than 66 sites, ranging from community parks that serve as neighborhood gathering places to national monuments and national seashore parks that attract visitors from around the world. The Southeast Region serves more than 60 million visitors annually and encompasses parkland and open space with thousands of historic structures and archeological sites, hundreds of miles of trails, bike paths, riverfront, scenic parkways, and national seashores in nine states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. We are looking for an individual with a proven track record of working with executive teams, who possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, has an understanding of and experience in cultural and natural resources, has successfully managed the preservation of a park in a large, geographically dispersed organization, and has attracted and retained a highly skilled and diverse workforce.

To be considered for this position, applicants must address each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Technical Qualifications (TQs) listed below. Your narrative submittals should be clear and concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, scope and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments with results of your actions, policy initiatives and level of contacts.

If you are currently serving under a career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program (SES CDP) approved by OPM, you only need to submit a narrative statement covering each of the Technical Qualifications listed below. SES CDP graduates must submit a copy their CDP program certification with their package.

This is a traditional method announcement, meaning qualification narratives are required. The narratives addressing ECQs should follow the format provided at http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/guidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf (Adobe Acrobat required). ECQ narratives are limited to 10 pages total; TQs are limited to 4 pages total. If you exceed the page limit for ECQs and/or TQs your application will not be considered. Please give a complete and detailed answer for each mandatory qualification. Each ECQ and TQ are unique qualifications. Therefore, duplicate responses are not sufficient in determining if you meet that specific qualification. Do not enter "Refer to Resume" to explain your answer. Applications directing the reader to search within the application or to "See Resume" are considered incomplete and will not be considered. Failure to submit a narrative statement or address any of the mandatory ECQs and/or TQs clearly is also considered incomplete and will not be considered. As a result, you will be rated as "INCOMPLETE".

Executive Core Qualifications:

ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: You must have demonstrated an ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision

ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: You must demonstrate the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building

ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility

ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This ECQ involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management

ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This ECQ involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES: The following competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communication, Continual Learning, Public Service Motivation

Technical Qualifications:
1. Ability to manage complex programs that typically extend and apply to an entire organization or major components of an organization. This includes strategic planning, policy and standards development, project management, public land management, human resources management, diversity recruitment, natural/cultural resource management, conservation and recreation, architecture, budget and infrastructure planning and management.

2. Knowledge of budget-related issues that affect a major organization, such as a Federal government agency.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Applicants who meet the mandatory executive and technical qualifications, and have submitted all the correct required information for this vacancy announcement will be evaluated by a panel of executives to determine the degree to which they possess each of the listed qualifications. This evaluation will determine which applicants are best qualified and will potentially move forward for an interview with the hiring manager(s). Total background, including experience, ECQ and TQ narratives, awards, self-development, and training will be reviewed. This information will be obtained from the application package, including the required narrative statements for the ECQs and TQs described above.

All applicants must submit the following in order to receive consideration for this position:

1. A resume which should include the following information: (not to exceed 10 pages)
- Full name, mailing address, and day and evening telephone numbers
- Information about your paid and non-paid work experience related to this position including:
* Job title (include series, grade and step)
* Duties and accomplishments
* Employer's name and address
* Supervisor's name and phone number
* Starting and ending dates of employment (month and year)
* Salary
* Indicate if we may contact your current supervisor
* Information about honors, awards, and special accomplishments
2. Applicants who are not currently on a career SES appointment, SES reinstatement eligible or SES CDP certified by OPM must submit narrative statements addressing each of the ECQs and TQs. Please refer to the Qualifications Required section of this vacancy announcement for more information on ECQs and TQs.
3. Graduates of approved OPM SES Candidate Development Programs (CDP) must include a copy of their OPM certification of eligibility and narrative statements addressing only the Technical Qualifications.
4. Current or former SES members must submit documentation (SF-50 or equivalent Notification of Personnel Action); Please only address the TQ narrative statements if you have current SES status, are SES reinstatement eligible, or are OPM SES CDP certified.
5. Current Civil Service employees must submit a copy of a recent SF-50, or equivalent Notification of Personnel Action, that indicates Federal status, grade, tenure, and type of service. (please do not submit an SF-50 for an award.)
6. A copy of your most recent annual performance appraisal.