This complex role involves managing the iconic national park including its infrastructure, employees, and visitors. The Superintendent is responsible for carrying out the legislative mandate to preserve, protect, restore, and interpret these areas. The Superintendent also exercises direction over Devils Postpile National Monument. Responsibilities include:

• The Superintendent oversees daily operations, planning, management decisions, and implementation of park policy; provides executive leadership of park staff, volunteers, and assessment of park programs; and, manages a multi-million dollar operating budget.
• Leads strategic planning and establishes short and long-range goals and standards of operations to ensure effective park operations and policy.
• Represents the Director in interactions with the Secretary of the Interior and members of his/her staff, local/state/regional leaders of other federal/land management agencies, members of Congress and Congressional staff, state/county/local leadership, tribal leaders, leadership of partner organizations, and other state, local and gateway communities and authorized concessionaires.
• Implements cooperative agreements, contracts, special use permits, and instruments that define the parks' relationship with a variety of partners and commercial interests.
• Manages and directs the parks' partnerships and public awareness programs and a public relations program. This includes concessions, public use management, stewardship, and community outreach.
• Leads a complex law enforcement and emergency service program, including the Emergency Communications Center, dispatch services for Lassen Volcanic National Park and Devils Postpile National Monument, and Yosemite's complex fire management program.
• Develops resource protection and restoration strategies for the parks' historic and cultural resources and preserves the natural features for future generations and strategies for education and interpretative programs.
• Maintains and operates nearly 500 miles of road, over 800 miles of surface and graded trails, over 2,000 buildings and structures with dozens of water systems and sewer systems, 14 campgrounds with approximately 1500 sites, and five entrance stations. Plans manages, and directs the maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and operation of all facilities. Responsible for the development of project cost, scope, scheduling, and contract management for large-scale projects from multiple fund sources.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Tier 5 background investigation. This position sensitivity is Non-Critical Sensitive. Selectees may be required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use.
• Males must meet Selective Service Registration Act requirements. To verify registration visit SSS.gov.
• 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 before the appointment and will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Individuals selected for an SES position are subject to reassignment.
• Agencies must request OPM approval to appoint current or former (within five years) Executive Branch political appointees to permanent competitive service, non-political excepted service, or career SES position. Please make a note in your application package if you have held any of these positions within the last five years.
• A Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278, and the supplemental form, Confidential Statement of Employment and Financial Interest is required within 30 days after the selection for this position.

Qualifications

We are looking for an individual with experience in successfully managing the preservation of a park in a large, geographically dispersed organization who demonstrates experience in cultural and natural resources management, managing recreation and public use programs, working with executive teams, sound judgment; and, possesses strong communication and interpersonal skills. Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution. Candidates will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.

To be considered, you must submit a two-page resume (max), and a comprehensive narrative statement that addresses each Technical Qualification (TQ) and each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ). Applicants who do not submit a supplemental narrative statement that addresses each of these factors will not be considered.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications (TQs) *Required Documentation*: TQs are designed to assess an applicant's experience relevant to the specific position requirements. Each TQ narrative response should 1) not exceed two pages per TQ for a total of 4 pages; 2) include specific examples of your experience, education, and/or accomplishments; and 3) address specific challenges, contexts, actions, and results.

1. Describe your knowledge and experience in managing public lands which includes addressing operational issues involving complex programs such as visitor services, law enforcement, natural/cultural resource management and protection, interpretation, a fire management program, safety, concessions management, maintenance management, partnerships, entrepreneurial management, public land management, conservation, and recreation management.

2. Describe your ability to negotiate and manage partnerships directly related to land management operations to include a wide range of stakeholders from a cross-section of organizations; and your understanding of governmental budgets to include congressional appropriations, large donations, concessions management, fee-based funding, and large-scale project funding or equivalent.

Executive Core Qualifications: By statute, the Office of Personnel Management prescribes Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) for the appointment of career SES members. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and not technical expertise. Please prepare one or two examples for each of the five ECQs below. ECQ narratives must not exceed ten pages in total.

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 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 the ECQ is the ability to develop others, facilitate cooperation and teamwork, and support constructive resolution of conflicts.
Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, 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

Your ECQ responses should address your Challenge, Context, Actions, and Results for each example. Please give a complete and detailed answer for each specific mandatory qualification demonstrating your experience. Qualifications will be evaluated based on how clearly and concisely you emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of your programs; services managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues addressed; and the results of your actions taken. Typically experience will have been gained at the GS-15 grade level in the federal service or equivalent in the private sector or non-governmental organizations.

Each ECQ and TQ have unique qualifications. Therefore, duplicate responses are not sufficient in determining if you meet that specific qualification. Do not refer to your resume to explain your experience or your application package will be considered incomplete and will not be considered. Failure to submit a narrative statement, specifically address the mandatory ECQs and/or TQs clearly, or if you exceed the page limits, you will not be considered.

Already SES Certified? If you are currently serving under a career Senior Executive Service appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the Senior Executive Service, or have completed a Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SES CDP) approved by OPM, you only need to submit a narrative statement covering each of the Technical Qualifications. You do not need to submit ECQs. SES CDP graduates must submit a copy of their CDP program certification with their package.

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 will be evaluated by a panel of SES members to determine the degree to which they possess each of the listed qualifications. Total background, including experience, ECQ, and TQ narratives, awards, and training will be reviewed. This information will be obtained from your uploaded documents.