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Logistics Management Specialist

Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Wildland Fire and Aviation Management
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Summary

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.

Overview

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Open & closing dates
05/15/2025 to 05/22/2025
Salary
$72,894 to - $108,817 per year

The salary shown is for GW. See "position information" for additional information on pay rates.

Pay scale & grade
GS 9 - 11
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Albuquerque, NM
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for fire related incidences.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—Employer paid and reimbursed relocation expenses are considered taxable income. The NPS does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. Employees should consult professional tax, legal and accounting advisors regarding concerns about the financial implications of a Permanent Change of Station (PCS).
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
11
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determination process
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit status
No
Announcement number
25-12736542-NPSFIRE-MP
Control number
837047700

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Duties

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  • Coordinate the overall execution of activities of the Fire Intelligence Section of the geographic area coordination center (GACC) which involves interpreting fire incidents, weather, and occurrences patterns for the area.
  • Work closely with dispatch and fire management staff to track and monitor commitment and availability of resources and maintain a system to status and prioritize incidents and resource allocation.
  • Utilize and maintain various computer programs and files in agency specific computer systems and provide appropriate information and assistance to other users.
  • Provide user training and oversite of the incident reporting system (ICS-209), Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), and other reporting programs.
  • Provide operational oversite, guidance, and work planning for up to six intelligence support personnel during emergency 24-hour/7-day-per-week sustained operations.
  • Disseminate reports to federal and state agencies and maintain continual provisions of intelligence through verbal and written communications.
  • Create, utilize, and maintain various computer programs and files in agency specific computer systems that support assistance to users in the Geographical Area.
  • Duties listed are at the full performance level of the position (GS-11).

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Subject to frequent extended travel up to 14 nights a month particularly during fire season, and you must obtain a government charge card for travel.
  • U.S. Citizenship required.
  • Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
  • Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
  • Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
  • Must be 18 years of age at time of close date of announcement.
  • You will be required to operate a government motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required.
  • This is a Drug Test Designated Position. You will be required to submit to a drug test and receive a negative drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use.
  • Prior primary/rigorous structure firefighting experience is required.
  • Willing to live/work in remote locations (volatile/unpredictable).
  • You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service fire uniform standards.
  • You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
  • If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
  • Incumbent will be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.

Qualifications

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;
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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.
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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);
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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.

Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience.

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.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

POSITION INFORMATION:

**PLEASE NOTE - these positions are covered under the new GW pay table specific to Wildland Firefighters. Please see this link for the pay tables: Wildland Firefighter.

This position is at the Interagency Southwest Coordination Center (SWCC); Fire and Aviation Management Division; located in Albuquerque, NM. This position is covered by the Albuquerque locality pay table: Albuquerque Pay Table. For questions regarding the duties of this position, please contact Paul Cerda at paul_cerda@nps.gov.

Additional information

This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.

A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay.

A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR §575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive.

A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another.

Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.

Physical Demands: Work is primarily performed in an office setting. Long hours of sitting, intense concentration, and working at peak proficiency level with irregular breaks/mealtimes are frequent, prolonged demands of the job. Incumbent is subject to work shifts of 12-14 hours per day for extensive periods. Vehicle and aircraft travel associated with field visits and other administrative travels is required.

Working Conditions: The work is normally performed in an office but trips to field offices, wildland fire sites, prescribed bum sites, and airports or remote aircraft landing sites are common. These field trips are required for optimal coordination of resources, onsite evaluation of mission, and Incident Management Team assignment closeouts. Field trips may result in exposure to temperatures in excess of 120 degrees, as well as dusty and smoky conditions. There is regular and recurring exposure to moderate risk and discomforts such as high temperatures and adverse fire weather conditions. Flying in small aircraft is common.

How you will be evaluated

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

You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide on the application questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position. A review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If your resume is incomplete or does not support the responses provided in the Assessment Questionnaire, or if you fail to submit all required documentation, you will be rated 'ineligible', 'not qualified', or your score will be adjusted accordingly. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications or experience, you can lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully; errors or omissions can affect your rating.

Candidates who apply under Competitive Merit Promotion procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are highly qualified based on the content of their resume and their responses to the questionnaire. Best qualified candidates will be referred if all required supporting documentation has been provided.

Candidates who apply under Noncompetitive Merit Promotion procedures will undergo a quality review to determine if they are minimally qualified based on the content of their resume and their responses to the questionnaire. Qualified candidates will be referred if all required supporting documentation has been provided.

You will be evaluated on the following competencies:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Customer Service
  • Data Management
  • Decision Making
  • Fire Management
  • Flexibility
  • Integrity/Honesty
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Learning
  • Planning and Evaluating
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Reasoning
  • Self-Management
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Teamwork
  • Technical Competence


In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of additional assessments, including a Subject Matter Expert (SME) resume review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed above that are required to successfully perform the job.

Please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluation and award documentation you provide will be forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documentation and give it due weight consideration during the overall selection process.

If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation, please submit a statement as to why it is not available. Please indicate if any prior performance appraisals/evaluations were at an acceptable level.

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