
Website National Park Service
Job Description:
The National Capital Area (NCA) Communications Center provides 24/7 public safety dispatch operation, in a complex environment, servicing all National Park Service units within the NCA, requiring an extensive body of dispatch procedures knowledge.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assists in all management aspects of the operation, including the development and maintenance of interagency mobilization plans, along with complex dispatch operating plans and guides.
- Administers all agency policies and procedures governing the dispatch of law enforcement, fire, aviation, search and rescue, medical and other emergent situations.
- Determines kinds, types and quantities of resources required to meet pre-determined protection objectives.
- Responsible for day to day knowledge of all dispatch operations, primarily focused on law enforcement and Emergency Medical Service (EMS).
- Plans work schedules for yearly 24/7 shift coverage on a bi-weekly basis.
- Assigns work and sets standards of performance.
- Provides day to day supervision,
Job Requirements:
- 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). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
- 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 may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
- If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
Job Details:
Company: National Park Service
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Functions: Management
Job Location: Hagerstown, MD, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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