Clarification from the agency

This is a Merit Promotion announcement open to current career and career conditional National Park Service (NPS) employees, Career Transition (CTAP) eligibles, and current or former time-limited employees eligible under Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA). Please refer to Required Documents section for more information.

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Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

• Directs an intricate program of resources management activities that involve sensitive and complex issues that may impact a wide variety of park issues.
• Carries out program management duties by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates for funding requests and accomplish goals.
• Prepares and coordinates the efforts of others in the preparation of resources management plan and specific actions plans pertaining to the management and protection of cultural and natural resources.
• Develops and implements long range plans for the inventory, evaluation, documentation, preservation, research, and interpretation of the resources within the appropriate mission, objectives, and resources contexts.
• Develops and maintains effective working relations with Alaska Native Tribes /Consortia, other traditional associations, and related groups, agencies, and the public.
• Represents the park on NPS regional task groups or similar organizations. Makes presentations in the parks, in public gatherings, and at professional meetings.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit participation required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/
• You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority.
• A financial disclosure report will be required within 30 days of appointment.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.

This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probtionary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

This is a supervisory position that may require completion of a supervisory probationary period.

*Additional Requirements located under qualifications*

Qualifications

Qualifications:

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 10/07/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.

For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized 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 periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. 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.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess at least one of the basic requirements for the Anthropology, 0190 series, General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences 0401 series, or Archeologist, 0193 series as follows:

Anthropology, 0190 series:
degree in an appropriate field of anthropology. You must include transcripts.
OR
combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major, or a combination of courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in an appropriate field of anthropology, or related course work, plus appropriate experience, or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week.
OR
four years of appropriate experience in anthropology performing research, museum work, or similar professional-level work. You must include hours worked per week.

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General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences, 0401 series:
Degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must include transcripts.
OR
combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week.

-OR-

Archeologist, 0193 series:
Degree that included semester hours as described in Parts A, B, and C as follows:
(Part A) Bachelor or higher degree that includes 3 semester hours each in the following 5 course areas:
1) History of archaeology;
2) Archaeology of a major geographical area such as North America or Africa;
3) Regional archaeology, archaeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development;
4) Theory and methods of archaeology. Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating and analytical techniques;
5) Archaeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work, AND
(Part B) I have taken six semester hours of related course work in: geography, geology, or cultural geography; history, historiography, or historical archaeology; environmental studies; scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or surveying; AND
(Part C) I have completed archaeological field school. You must include transcripts.
OR
Degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements above (including archeological field school). You must include transcripts.
OR
Combination college-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education. You must include transcripts and hours worked per week.
OR
Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology. The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school. Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials. Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher-grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project. You must include hours worked per week in your resume.

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In addition to meeting at least one of the basic requirements listed above, to qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement.

Experience: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: planning and managing programs that provide long-term protection for resources; Experience with an organization or park's natural and cultural resources, including, but not limited to history, archeology, historic structures, ethnology, cultural landscapes, natural and cultural museum collections, archives, botany, wildlife biology, ecology, hydrology, and physical sciences; Reflect organizational priorities and policies by adhering to regulations, policies, guidelines and federal and state laws that relate to the preservation and protection of natural and cultural resources to assure program goals and objectives meet legal requirements; Manage programs and administer budgets, contracts and personnel; Evaluate resource conditions to develop new techniques and methods when existing techniques are not satisfactory; Manage the collection and summation of data and accomplish data analysis through using data acquisition, analysis standards, methods and recording techniques; Follows guidelines, procedures and techniques required for the preservation, protection, exhibition, storage, cataloging, and research of natural and cultural specimens. You must include hours per week worked.

Volunteer 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

How you will be evaluated

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

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 assessment(s) required for this position. To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.

Your resume must not exceed 2 pages. Only the document submitted as the "Resume" under the Documents section will be used to determine your qualifications/eligibility and for rating purposes. In the event you submit more than one resume, only the latest submission will be reviewed.

You will be assessed in the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics):

• History and Archaeology
• Information Management
• Oral Communication
• Planning and Evaluating
• Project Management

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 assessment(s), including a Subjected Matter Expert (SME) structured resume review.These assessments measure the critical competencies listed above that are required to successfully perform the job.

All qualified non-competitive applicants and the best-qualified Merit Promotion applicants will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration.

Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration or your score may be lowered. Cheating on an assessment may also result in your removal from consideration. Applicants who include vulgar, offensive, or inappropriate language or information in their application package will be ineligible for further consideration for this position.

Current or former displaced Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separated have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP). To be considered under CTAP, you must be well-qualified, score at least 85 (i.e., meet the minimum qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors; education, and experience requirements), and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry.