Outdoor Recreation Planner

**Duties**:

- Work with and/or under other natural resource specialists and planners to analyze and evaluate services, projects, programs, and/or functions of one or more Outdoor Recreation Programs.
- Coordinate recreation program activities with other BLM District and Field Offices, as well as private organizations, and the general public.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with academic institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and interest/user groups concerned with public land management.
- Collaborate with others to facilitate partnerships, cooperative agreements, and/or memoranda of understandings with other agencies, institutions, or organizations in order to encourage and facilitate cooperative management strategies.
- Coordinate with managers, planners, and resource specialists to identify recreation program needs on a local scale and develop long and short-term outdoor recreation plans to address needs.
- Participate in the preparation and execution of financial and program work plans.
- Review and implement recreation program policies, standards, methods, controls, and procedures.
- Research and identify opportunities for grants, financial assistance programs, and other funding requests to ensure adequate funding and support.
- Develop content for environmental and project planning documents such as Resource Management Plans, Site Plans, and Environmental Assessments.
- Research and compile data on recreation related topics such as recreational use, commercial use, visitation, recreation values, environmental impacts, funding, and performance.
- Identify training needs and promote an integrated training program to teach basic skills of Outdoor Recreation Planning.
- Prepare planning documents, newsletters, stipulations, alternatives, analyses, mitigating measures, and summaries.

**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.
- An applicant appointed to this position must possess (or obtain within 30 days of entrance on duty) and maintain a valid state driver's license while employed in this position.
- May require a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period depending on appointment type.
- This position is included in a bargaining unit. The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), Local 2052, is the exclusive representative of all employees in this bargaining unit.

**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:

- **Undergraduate and Graduate Education**:Major study - outdoor recreation planning or a related field such as: sociology, forestry, landscape architecture, economics, biological science, park administration, earth science, natural resource management and conservation, civil engineering, urban planning, or recreation. Applicants who qualify on the basis of graduate work in related disciplines must have one or more courses in outdoor recreation.
- **OR**

**Specialized Experience**:Experience that demonstrated the ability to plan and coordinate the use of land, water, and related resources for recreation and conservation purposes. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include:

- Ability to deal with people of differing backgrounds and behavioral patterns.
- Analysis and evaluation of outdoor recreation interests, habits, and needs of diversified groups, and the means for meeting those needs.
- Evaluation of land or water areas for their recreation and related potential use, such as wildlife reserve.
- Preparation or review of plans and programs for natural resource utilization and recreation area development.
- Solution of administrative, intergovernmental, socioeconomic, and other problems involved in providing adequate recreation opportunities while preserving, restoring, and enhancing the quality of the outdoor environment.

In additional to the above factors and in order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.
- **To qualify for the GS-09**:You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07. Examples of specialized experience may include: researching and/or replying to requests from special interest groups, and questions from the general public re