Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist (Interagency Dispatch Center Manager)

You will serve as a Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist (Interagency Dispatch Center Manager), GW-0346-12, with the U.S. Wildland Fire Service working in one of the listed locations. In order to be considered for any duty location, ensure desired locations are selected. Applicants will not be considered for locations not selected.

As a Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist (Interagency Dispatch Center Manager) your duties will include but are not limited to the following: Direct and oversee daily dispatch center operations to ensure adequate staffing, balanced workloads, operational readiness. Manage the dispatch center budget, including planning, allocating, monitoring, and reconciling expenditures across multiple funding sources and agency partners. Develop and implement long-range plans for dispatch center operations to support wildland fire management objectives and interagency priorities. Coordinate with partner agencies during multi-jurisdictional incidents to assess resource needs, identify values at risk, support operational planning, and maintain situational awareness. Establish incident priorities and coordinate the mobilization, demobilization, and reassignment of resources to support current and anticipated incident response and logistical operations at the local, geographic, and national levels.

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participation required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. Must possess/maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment. Pre-employment and random drug testing is required. You will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test is received. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. You may be required to travel overnight away from home. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. You are required to complete training, obtain/maintain a government credit card with travel and/or purchase authority. Completion of NWCG course S-491 "Intermediate National Fire Danger Rating System" course within one year of entrance on duty. This is a supervisory position that may require completion of a supervisory probationary period. This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.