Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Summary This position located in Canyon De Chelly National Monument, in the Facilities Division. Open to the first 100 applicants or until 07/16/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration. Responsibilities Facilitate, operate, and oversee the National Park Service (NPS) Facility Management Software System (FMSS) system including but not limited to asset identification and inventory of critical systems, condition assessments, cost estimating, work order generation, life cycle management, and teaching others how to utilize these systems successfully. Utilize the FMSS, as well as other Park Facility Management Program systems, to support park, regional, and departmental goals for reporting accurate and pertinent information about park assets, maintenance and construction requirements, energy reporting, expenditures, and accomplishments. Establish and maintain a Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) program for FMSS programs to review, validate, and correct data. Conduct condition assessments on a variety of facilities and assets, including but not limited to buildings (historic and non-historic), maintained landscapes, maintained archeological sites, trails, utility systems, cultural resources, roads, signs, and interpretive media. Create work orders and maintain the park-wide work request system and provide online access to all authorized users to improve communication between maintenance and other divisions. Collaborate and communicate effectively with park staff to establish the project scope of work, work orders, cost estimates and compliance requirements and utilize the Project Scoping Tool (PST) to develop facility projects in the Project Management Information System (PMIS) for funding requests. Complete the annual review, close out, and setup of numerous complex maintenance work orders such as replacing aging infrastructure, preservation of a historic sites, changes in facility usage and/or modernization for inclusion in the operational budget. Serve as the park's lead for the Facility Investment Plan (FIP) Tool, working with facility staff, park staff, and regional support staff, to keep the FIP up to date as a successful planning tool. Develop and maintain positive working relationships with staff at all levels, including peers, supervisors, management, and regional staff to establish connections that allow for open communication. May serve as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on contracts. Much of this work is sedentary, with regular visits to sites in the monuments or travel to training and/or conferences. Occasional hiking, climbing, or crawling to perform asset inspections may be required. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. 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); with few exceptions as outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement who have had a break in service of less than one year, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointments. Time-in-grade does not apply to new excepted service appointments and must be met by the closing date of this announcement. You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 2 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. The position to which you will be appointed is subject to a financial disclosure reporting requirement and you will be required to complete a new entrant Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) within 30 days of your appointment. Qualifications All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/16/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. 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. EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: inventory and condition assessment of all physical facilities and assets including buildings, campgrounds, trails, equipment, utility systems, fleet, signage, cultural resources, telecommunications, and computer equipment. Facility Management Software Systems(FMSS)are utilized to record and maintain an inventory database of every asset(building, utility, road, trail, sign, monument, etc.), to create work orders for facilities work, estimate work order costs, and to create projects for the NPS Project Management Information System (PMIS).To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least master's or equivalent graduate degree, or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education directly related to the duties of this position such as business management, finance, etc. . You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience. first take 27 semester hours or 41 quarter hours of directly related graduate level education in an accredited educational institution (50% of the qualifying education). (Please note: Only graduate education in excess of the first 18 semester hours may be used in this calculation.) . Then take the number of months of full time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts. 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. Do not submit photographs with your application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - you must remove your image from any badges, licenses, etc. Do not upload Adobe portfolio documents. Adobe portfolio documents are not viewable by our agency's staffing offices. 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. Applicants must be at least (1)18 years old or (2) at least 16 years old and: (a) Have graduated from high school or been awarded a certificate equivalent to graduating from high school; or (b) Have completed a formal vocational training program; or (c) Have received a statement from school authorities agreeing with their preference for employment rather than continuing their education; or (d) Be currently enrolled in a secondary school and either work only during school vacation periods or work part-time during the school year under a formal student employment program. There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement. Additional Information 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. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. 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: The work is primarily sedentary. Visits to job sites or travel to conferences may be required. Occasional hiking, climbing or crawling to perform asset inspections may be required .Working Conditions: The work is normally performed in an office setting. Travel to various site locations within the Network to perform asset inspections may be required. -documentation for the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) eligibility, You must submit ALL SF-50s and performance information for each period of temporary/term employment that qualifies for LMWFA. Performance documentation can be obtained by contacting the supervisors for the positions you served in during your 24 months. If they did not complete performance appraisals ask them to provide a statement of performance for each period of service. The statement must specify the dates for each employment period and your level of performance consistent with your SF_50s.