Director, National Fire Training Centers

Forest Service•Redding, CA

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About The Position

This position is within the National Office Fire and Safety organization of Fire and Aviation Management (FAM). The incumbent serves as a national leader and technical expert in technology transfer and the development and delivery of advanced training, ensuring fire training programs meet the needs of the Forest Service and other agencies. At the full-performance GW-14 level, the role leads national employee-development programs from apprenticeship through advanced technical fire management training. The position develops program objectives and performance standards, evaluates innovative projects, analyzes and develops policy for national educational programs, and serves as a national authority in education and career-development program planning. It also evaluates organizational functions and complex program processes, advises on nationally significant learning and education programs, and recommends long-range plans, goals, objectives, and milestones that may result in substantive organizational or administrative changes. This is a permanent, full-time federal position. It may include weekend work. The position requires prior wildland firefighting experience and willingness to live or work in remote, volatile, or unpredictable locations. A one-year probationary period is required. Recruitment or relocation incentives may be authorized, subject to a hiring official’s determination.

Requirements

Be a U.S. Citizen or National.
Be at least 18 years of age.
Meet the specialized-experience requirement for the applicable grade: one year equivalent to GW-13 for GW-14, including experience overseeing, coordinating, and evaluating educational program activities and national guidelines for the interagency wildland fire community, providing guidance on program or policy issues involving major uncertainty, or conducting long-range planning and analysis of new interagency programs where precedents are scarce or nonexistent.
Have prior wildland firefighting experience.
Be willing to live or work in remote, volatile, or unpredictable locations.
If a current GS employee applying for promotion, meet the time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at the next lower grade by the announcement closing date.
Pass the required background investigation and/or fingerprint check, E-Verify employment verification, and pre-employment drug test; the position is subject to random drug testing and continuous vetting.
Meet applicable Selective Service registration or exemption requirements for males born after December 31, 1959.
Serve a one-year probationary period; new Forest Service supervisors must complete the required training program before the end of the probationary period.

Responsibilities

Develop program objectives, set performance standards, assess the potential of innovative projects, and promote promising approaches.
Develop, design, and deliver employee-development programs from apprenticeship through advanced technical fire management programs.
Analyze and develop policy for national educational programs.
Serve as the national authority in education and career-development program and project planning and development.
Conduct comprehensive evaluations of ongoing functions to determine whether organizational goals are being met and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
Assess the effectiveness of programs and improvements to complex program and management processes and systems involving difficult and diverse functions or issues.
Provide expert advice and guidance on broad learning and education projects and programs with national impact.
Recommend long-range program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones that may drive substantive changes to program organization and administration.