| Salary Range: | 34,300.00 - 44,589.00 USD /year |
|---|---|
| Series & Grade: | GS-0303-06 |
| Promotion Potential: | none |
| Open Period: | Friday, November 06, 2009 to Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| Position Information: | Full-Time Permanent |
| Duty Locations: | 1 vacancy - Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA |
| Who May Be Considered: | Applications will be accepted from current and former competitive service Federal employees, and people eligible under special hiring authorities. |
Experience your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service. Become a part of our mission to unite our past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations.
This vacancy announcement has been amended to extend the closing date.
This permanent full-time position is located in the Administration Division. For more details about this position please refer to the major duties section of this vacancy announcement.
Death Valley
Key Requirements:
- Applications must be postmarked by the closing date
- Faxed, emailed or electronic applications will not be accepted
- U.S. Citizenship
- Background and/or Security Investigation required.
Major Duties:
Incumbent supports a variety of fiscal activities for all of
Incumbent serves as the primary park Third Party Draft (TPD) agent and complies with all regulations, procedures, instructions, and policies governing the TPD program. Processes a variety of utility and miscellaneous accounts payable. Reconciles and reports monthly motorpool estimates in Excel.
Incumbent serves as a park Collection Officer. Prepares and processes deposits in Access for administrative/miscellaneous receipts, bills of collection, concessions fees, special park use fees, reimbursables, and donations. Enters deposits into the Federal Finance System (FFS) or TGAnet, a web-based deposit system. Processes a variety of utility, housing, and miscellaneous accounts receivables. Tracks outstanding bills owed to the park for follow up.
Incumbent serves as park Travel Coordinator. Provides guidance on Federal Travel Regulations (FTR). Serves as the point of contact for GovTrip web-based computer program and travel reservation questions. Reviews travel vouchers parkwide for compliance with Federal Travel Regulations and NPS policy after acquiring appropriate documentation. Prepares Permanent Change of Station (PCS) authorizations/vouchers for approval. Responds to travel voucher audit requests.
Incumbent utilizes FFS to modify TPD accounts, record deposits and bills of collection, and enter motorpool and PCS obligations for the park. Enters expense transfers, income transfers, obligations, and accruals in FFS for the park as directed.
Incumbent utilizes Administrative Financial System 3 (AFS3) to track, reconcile, and research account data. Enters and updates budget plans in AFS3 as per management guidance. Provides periodic status of funds to program managers. Downloads and prints budget reports from AFS3 and Document Direct reporting system for FFS. Utilizes Excel to organize and/or track and/or reconcile travel, TPDs, utilities, motorpool, deposits, bills of collection, invoices for payment, holding account and other program authorization balances, and other miscellaneous budget data.
Qualifications:
You must have one year of specialized experience at a level close to the work of this job that has given you the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform. Typically we would find this experience in work within this field or a field that is closely related.
GS-06: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-05) that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position. Experience must have been in or related to the work.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience regardless of whether compensation was received or whether the experience was gained in a part-time or full-time occupation. Full-time work is generally considered to be 35 to 40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must clearly indicate the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position, the number of hours a week spent in such employment and the starting and ending date of past work experience.
As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.
Education: Successfully completed education 4 years above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite is creditable at GS-05 grade level. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school.
Combining Education and Experience: Equivalent combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total experience requirements at GS-05 grade level. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience.
To qualify, in whole or in part based on education, submit a copy of transcript or list of courses with credit hours, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Application materials will not be returned. You can receive credit for education received outside the
You must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for this position.
You will need to successfully complete a background security investigation before you can be appointed into this position.
How You Will Be Evaluated:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required; and on the extent to which your application shows that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) associated with this position as defined below. It is very important that the applicant address the KSA section of this vacancy announcement. When describing your KSAs, please be sure to give examples and explain how often you used these skills, the complexity of the knowledge you possessed, the level of the people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled, etc.
To receive fullest consideration, the applicant must address each of the following KSA's. Please use no more than 1-1/2 sheets of paper (minimum font 11 or 12) for each statement.
KSA 1: Knowledge, skill, and ability to use a variety of software programs and web-based programs to accomplish a variety of tasks in budget and finance. This includes the use of word processing, spreadsheet, and database programs (i.e. Word, Excel, and Access) as well as budget, finance, and payment-related systems.
Examples of agency budget, finance, and payment-related systems accessed are AFS3 for budget formulation, execution, and reports, FFS for processing transactions, Document Direct for reports, GovTrip for travel payments, and TGAnet for deposits.
KSA 2: Skill and ability to interpret and implement laws, regulations, policies, and other decisions and directives to provide advice and assistance to staff, recommend action, make consistent, proper payments, and to ensure fiscal compliance.
Examples of guidance are Federal Travel Regulations and agency travel policies (41CFR, NPS-31) to review travel payments, agency Third Party Draft Manual for check payments, agency Purchase Card guidance to make micropurchases, and agency Accounts Receivable, Debt Management, and Collections Procedures to collect, safeguard, and deposit Government funds.
KSA 3: Knowledge of budget formulation, budget execution, and budget analysis. Ability to track and reconcile a budget for multiple accounts to enter, update, extract, summarize, analyze, troubleshoot, and present budget data for a status of funds.
KSA 4: Ability to manage multiple priorities while working under pressure. Ability to effectively plan and organize work, to identify and solve problems, to apply sound judgment, and to adapt to changing conditions or requirements.
KSA 5: Ability to accomplish work assignments through effective oral and written communication with vendors, managers, and co-workers. Ability to participate as an active, contributing member of an administrative work team, which exists to provide high quality customer service and support.
WARNING - Your responses are subject to verification. Any untrue claims or withholding relevant information can result in barring you from seeking Federal employment in the future and/or in removal from a Federal job.
Applications must meet minimum qualification requirements and time-in-grade to qualify for this position.
Basis of Rating:
Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Transition Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well-qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. For CTAP and ICTAP, well-qualified means that the applicant is eligible, qualified, and clearly exceeds qualification requirements for the position as demonstrated by either: (1) meeting selective and quality ranking factor levels as specified by the agency; or (2) being rated above minimally qualified under the agency's specific rating and ranking process.
Federal employees seeking CTAP/eligibility must submit proof that they meet the requirements of 5CFR 330.605(a) for CTAP and 5 CFR 550.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent performance rating, a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location. Please annotate your application to reflect that you are applying as a CTAP or ICTAP eligible.
Status applicants with career or career-conditional status or reinstatement eligibility must submit a copy of their most recent Notification of Personnel Action (Standard Form 50) showing tenure group and promotion potential (if any). To ensure full consideration, status applicants should submit a copy of current performance appraisal report.
Benefits:
You may participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, with costs shared with your employer. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#FEHB.
Life insurance coverage is provided. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#life
Long-Term Care Insurance is offered and carries into your retirement. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#ltci
New employees are automatically covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). If you are transferring from another agency and covered by CSRS, you may continue in this program. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#retr
You will earn annual vacation leave. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#VACA
You will earn sick leave. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#SKLV
You will be paid for federal holidays that fall within your regularly scheduled tour of duty. More info: http://www.usajobs.gov/jobextrainfo.asp#HOLI
Permanent Change of Station (PCS) will be paid as allowed by law.
Other Information:
All required information must be received by the closing date of the vacancy announcement. If all required information is not received, your application will be evaluated solely on the information available and you may not receive full consideration or may not be considered eligible.
APPLICATION MATERIAL
Applications mailed using government postage or through an internal federal government mail system will not be considered.
If you fax, email or electronically submit your application, it will not be considered.
Send only those materials needed to evaluate your application. Please do not place your application in a notebook or binder. Do not submit photographs: photographs will be removed before forwarding applications to selecting officials.
It is the applicant's responsibility to provide documentation/proof of claimed qualifications, education, veteran's preference, Federal employment status (SF-50) and/or verification of eligibility for non-competitive appointment. Applicants will not be solicited for further data if applicant information is found to be inadequate or incomplete. Any prior application(s) submitted to Death Valley National Park CANNOT be used for this announcement. Your application under this notice will be considered only for the vacancy described above.
By submitting your application for this position, you are granting permission to the National Park Service to check references and verify information regarding your employment history, competence, performance, and suitability.
The application you submit for this position contains information subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-579, 5 U.S.C. 552a).
Conditions of Employment:
You must be a U.S. Citizen at least 18 years of age to qualify for this position.
In accordance with Executive Order 10450, any employee of the Federal Government shall be subject to a background investigation including fingerprinting. A favorable adjudication of a background investigation prior to appointment is a condition of employment and failure of a favorable adjudication or refusal to complete the background process will result in withdrawal of the employment offer or termination of the appointment.
Incumbent will be required to operate a government vehicle and may be required to possess and maintain a valid state driver's license.
Physical Demands: Work is mostly sedentary. There may be some walking, or other practicable means of ambulation, standing, stooping, and bending, and carrying records, mail, packages, or light weight equipment up to 20 lbs. The incumbent may occasionally operate or travel in a motor vehicle.
Occasional travel may be required.
All Federal employees are required by PL-104-134 to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.
You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
For more information pertaining to
How To Apply:
Applications submitted by mail must be postmarked on or before the closing date of the vacancy announcement and must be received in the human resources office no later than five calendar days after the closing date to be considered. Hand-delivered applications must be received in the Death Valley National Park Human Resources Office by 4:30 p.m. on the closing date of the announcement.
Each application MUST include the following:
1. A resume, Optional Application for Federal Employment (OF-612), or other written application format of your choice. Be sure you provide all of the information requested below:
Job Announcement Information
- Job Announcement number, title, and grade(s) for which you are applying.
Personal Information
- Full name, mailing address (with zip code), day/evening telephone numbers (with area code).
- Social Security number (giving your Social Security number is voluntary, however, we cannot process your application without it).
- Country of Citizenship.
- Previous Federal Government employment: please show the highest Federal civilian grade held, job series, and dates of employment-in-grade.
Education
- High School name, city, state and zip code, date of diploma or GED.
- College and/or University name(s), city, state and zip code.
- College and/or University major field(s) of study
- Type and year of College and/or University degree(s) received; if no degree received, show total credit hours received in semester or quarter hours.
Work Experience
For each paid or non-paid position held that relates to the job for which you are applying (do not provide copies of job descriptions), include:
- Job title.
- Duties and Accomplishments.
- Number of hours per week.
- Employer's name and address.
- Supervisor's name and phone number.
- Job starting and ending dates (month and year, include day if possible).
- Salary.
- Indicate if your current supervisor may be contacted.
Other Qualifications
- Job-related training courses (title and year).
- Job-related skills (e.g., other languages, computer software/hardware, tools, machinery, typing speed, etc.)
- Job-related certificates and licenses.
- Job-related honors, awards, and special accomplishments (e.g., publications, memberships in professional or honor societies, leadership activities, public speaking, performance awards, etc.). Do not send copies of documents or certificates unless specifically requested.
2. Narrative response to the Knowledge, Skills & Abilities listed in the section, “How You Will Be Evaluatedâ€
3. Copy of college and/or university transcript(s). List courses with credit hours, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking.
4. Copy of Declaration for Federal Employment form (OF-306).
5. Copy of Ability to Drive Form (CSC 665).
6. Copy of Applicant Background Survey form (DI-1935). Completion of this form is voluntary, however, the information you provide will be used to determine if our recruitment efforts are reaching all segments of the country as required by Federal law. This is vital information not available from any other source; we can only get it directly from you. The information you voluntarily provide is maintained in a strictly confidential manner and will not be individually identified in any reports. Neither the form nor the information contained in it is used in the selection process. It is never shown to any official or panel member involved in the selection process. We appreciate your decision to complete the Applicant Background Survey.
7. If you are applying for Veterans' Preference, submit evidence of eligibility, such as: Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD-214) or other proof. Veterans with service-connected disability and others claiming 10-point preference, must submit Application for 10-Point Veterans' Preference (SF-15).
8. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) eligibles, agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) eligibles, and eligibles who lost consideration due to erroneous certification, are given priority consideration. CTAP/ICTAP eligible applicants must be well-qualified and clearly exceed minimum qualifications. To be considered well-qualified, CTAP/ICTAP eligibles must meet the middle-quality level of a three level-quality category system.
Federal employees seeking CTAP /ICTAP eligibility must submit proof that they meet the requirements of 3 CFR 330.605 (a) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes proof of eligibility, a copy of their most recent Performance Rating and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location. Please annotate your application to reflect that you are applying as a CTAP or ICTAP eligible.
9. Tribal Employment: “In employing individuals to perform any construction, maintenance, interpretation, or other service in the park, the Secretary shall, in so far as practical, give first preference to qualified members of the Tribeâ€. (Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act, Nov 2000).
To receive current preference eligibility MEMBERS OF THE TIMBISHA SHOSHONE TRIBE must submit a copy (not the original) of the letter that certifies tribal membership.
Links to forms listed below: Ability to Drive Safely form (CSC-665) link: go to http://inghro.state.id.us/Job_Announcements/CSC_Form%20665.doc
The OF-612, OF-306, DI-1935, and other forms, may be obtained through the USAJOBS website, (click on 'Forms' tab) at www.usajobs.opm.gov
We may hire at any of the grades shown in this announcement. You are encouraged to identify the grade level(s) or salary for which you wish to be considered.
Before being hired, you will be required to sign and certify the accuracy of the information in your application if you have not done this using an application form such as the OF-612. If you make a false statement in any part of your application, you may not be hired, you may be fired after your begin work, or you may be subject to fine, imprisonment, or other disciplinary action.
The Office of Personnel Management and other Federal agencies rate applicants for Federal jobs under authority of sections 1104, 1302, 3301, 3304, 3361, 3393, and 3394 of title 5 of the United States Code. We need the information requested to evaluate your qualifications. Other laws require us to ask about citizenship, military service, etc.
For more information about this position please contact: Kristi Sharpeta, Budget Officer, at (760) 786-3269
Contact Information:
| Human Resources Office - Donna Dean
Phone: 760-786-3273 or 3274 | Or write: Death Valley National Park Attn: HR Office (DEVA 2010-07) P.O. Box 579 Death Valley, CA 92328 |
What To Expect Next:
You will receive acknowledgement of your application when it is received. If you provide a email address you will be notified electronically, all others will receive a postcard through regular surface mail.
Once your complete application is received we will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications and determine your ranking. The most highly qualified candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further consideration and possible interview. We expect to make a selection(s) within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement: however, the selection process may be extended beyond the 45 days. You will be notified of the outcome.
Reasonable Accommodation Policy Statement: http://www.usajobs.gov/raps
Veterans Information: http://www.usajobs.gov/vi
Legal and Regulatory Guidance: http://www.usajobs.gov/lrg
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