Department: Department of Agriculture
Location(s): Boise, Idaho, Missoula, Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah
Salary Range: $61722 - $116362 Per Year
Job Summary: These positions are located within the Washington Office Fire and Aviation Management, Information Management (WO-FAM-IM). This position serves as a Project Management Specialist; a technical expert responsible for providing project development including defining scope, goals and deliverables that support the business and improve interagency fire and aviation management processes. This includes coordination with other programs, agencies, states, CIO staff, and contractor representatives.
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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. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Specialized Experience Requirement: GS-09: Applicants must have one-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the (GS-07) grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Supported Program Managers and other staff to coordinate with agencies, states, Chief Information Office (CIO) staff, and contractor representatives; and/or Assisted in plan reviews and guidance for compliance to current policies, monitors outgoing reports and correspondence ensuring correct format and content; and/or Reviewed and analyzed project information and studies quality assurance reviews, project requirements, implementation strategy and action plans; and/or Wrote and edited documents and prepared multimedia presentations to communicate program mission and vision to diverse audiences; and/or Compiled and compared technical data for use by a variety of sources such as supervisors, program managers, or other interagency parties at the national, regional or local level; -OR- Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M. or J.D, -OR- 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. GS-11: Applicants must have one-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the (GS-09) grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Identified, planned, developed, implemented, and maintained information systems that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of interagency fire and aviation management business processes; and/or Assisted Project Managers in establishing program goals, plans, schedules, activities, and milestones; and/or Reviewed and analyzed project information and studies quality assurance reviews, project requirements, implementation strategy and action plans to understand the scope of assigned work; and/or Retrieved data from electronic databases, program files and guidance, and other sources as appropriate to compile and compare information on program accomplishments; -OR- Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., -OR- 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. GS-12: Applicants must have one-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the (GS-11) grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Worked closely with fire and aviation management and information management staff and coordinated with other programs, agencies, states, Chief Information Office (CIO) staff, and contractor representatives; and/or Reviewed plans and guidance for compliance to current policies, monitors outgoing reports and correspondence ensuring correct format and content; and/or Served as project manager and assists higher level project managers and specialists in the overall management, control, coordination and execution of specified projects; and/or Worked with fire and aviation management staff and CIO counterparts to advance projects that support collective strategic plans and long-term vision; and/or Drafted narrative summaries and explanations of fire and aviation program subject matter; and/or Participated in regular information planning sessions, maintains productive interaction with staff. 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. To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
How to Apply: Please view Tips for Applicants - a guide to the Forest Service application process. Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m., Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing date for an alternate method. All hardship application packages must be complete and submitted no later than noon ET on the closing date of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and attach your resume and all required documents. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.
Application Deadline: 2026-04-01