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**Duties**:

- Directs all aspects of the Central California District prescribed fire and fuels management program including planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation.
- Develops and implements mid and long-range programs that include budgeting, managing wildfire suppression, fuels management, and prescribed fire programs.
- Analyzes, evaluates, and make recommendations on all sections of the Fire Management Plan pertaining to prescribed fire and fuels treatments.
- Serves as a key member of an interdisciplinary team that advises and provides technical guidance to fire management staff addressing unique fuels and fire management problems.
- Plans, develops, conducts, analyzes, and evaluates data to develop prescriptions for prescribed wildland fire monitoring.
- Leads the development and coordination of cooperative agreements to facilitate multi-agency projects.
- Evaluates prescription treatments, monitoring methods, and new technologies and, as appropriate, makes refinements to improve the organization's effectiveness.
- Plans and administers the technical and administrative aspects of prescribed fire/fuels plan, ensuring that preparation, ignition, holding, mop-up, and rehabilitation comply with standards, regulations, policies, and guidelines.
- Monitors fire behavior, evaluates fire effects, identifies potential problems and utilizes this information to prioritize prescribed fire and fuels management projects.
- Conducts field reconnaissance of prescribed fire/fuels treatment units, summarizes field findings and makes recommendations on appropriate prescriptive criteria for meeting land management objectives.
- Participates in preparedness reviews, proficiency checks and drills, safety sessions, and after action reviews.
- Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules for complete of work.
- Evaluates work performance of subordinates.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- You cannot hold an active real estate license: nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
- Direct Deposit Required.
- Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the qualification requirements as defined in the announcement. In addition, your responses to the questions must adequately reflect in your resume.
- This position requires regular and recurring overtime and shift work.
- This position requires you to wear an officially-approved uniform while in a duty status.
- You must be 18 years of age or older to be assigned to a hazardous position.
- You must pass a pre-employment physical.
- You must meet specified levels on annual physical fitness tests, and pass periodic medical exams for wild land fire personnel, commensurate with current incident management qualifications.
- You must also pass the work capacity test for arduous positions.
- An applicant appointed to this position must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license while employed in this position.
- May require a one year probationary period.
- This is a Bargaining Unit position.

**Qualifications**:
**Selective Placement Factors**: This position requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. Those who do not provide evidence they possess the following selective factor(s) will be rated not qualified.
- This position has been identified as one of the key fire management positions under the Interagency Fire Program Management (IFPM) Standard. This position has been categorized as a **Prescribed Fire and Fuels Specialist - HIGH Complexity** and requires selectee to meet the minimum qualification standards for IFPM prior to being placed into the position unless stated otherwise.
- To meet IFPM requirements, you must have possessed all of the following National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) incident management qualifications and training requirements to be considered eligible for this position (**currency required at time of referral)**:

- A.) Prescribed Fire Burn Boss, Type 2 (RXB2); AND
- B.) Incident Commander, Type 3 (ICT3), OR Task Force Leader (TFLD), OR Helibase Manager (HEBM)
- You must meet all qualification and selective placement factor requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
- This is an administrative position in an organization having a firefighting mission, and is in an established career path. Prior firefighting experience, as gained by substantial service in a primary firefighter position or equivalent experience outside the Federal government is a **MANDATORY PREREQUISITE **of this position.
- 90 Day Prior Firefighting Experience Requirement (resume must show to and from dates and a description of work performed). The Department of the Interior defines wild land firefighting experience as on-the-line wildland firefighting experience gained through contain