Casper, WY

Position Title:
Outdoor Recreation Planner

Organization:
Bureau of Land Management – Casper Field Office

Location: Casper, WY

Organization Overview: The BLM is a Department of the Interior agency responsible for administering federal public lands. The BLM’s Casper Field Office covers 1.4 million surface acres in Natrona, Converse, Platte, and Goshen counties.

Position Overview: Outdoor Recreation Planner – GS 7 – 11

Duties: Serve as the Outdoor Recreation Planner for outdoor recreation programs (e.g. Wilderness, National Conservation Lands, Off-Highway Vehicles, Visitor Services, Visual Resources, Travel, Transportation, Wild and Scenic Rivers, Accessibility). Manage recreation site maintenance, trail development, and trail maintenance. The incumbent would be responsible for implementing recreation planning actions identified in the CFO RMP. The position will ensure consistency with all existing regulations, policies, and directives, as well as with BLM Washington Office (WO) program direction.

Qualifications:

• 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.
• Appointment will be subject to a favorably adjudicated background/suitability investigation/determination.
• Your resume must contain enough information to show that you meet the qualification requirements listed on the job application. In addition, responses to the questions must adequately reflect in your resume.
• May require a one-year trial period.

For GS-07: In addition to meeting the education requirement, you must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following: researching and/or replying to requests from special interest groups, and questions from the general public regarding outdoor recreation programs; performing fact finding, analytical, or interpretive work to support assignments; analyzing data related to existing and potential recreation resources in order to identify prominent trends; preparing data summaries and basic drafts of supporting material for inclusion in resource study reports. You may meet qualifications requirement for this position with an equivalent combination of specialized experience and appropriate graduate education. Graduate level education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position.

Salary/Pay: $46,696 – $89,835 per year

Application Deadline: July 19

How to Apply: For more information, or to apply for this job, please visit the vacancy announcement on USA Jobs at: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/735351100