Superintendent

Superintendent Department of the Interior Nional Park Service Summary Yosemite Nional Park covers 747,956 acres along the central western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in east-central California. Designed a United Nions Educional, Scientific and Cultural Organizion (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internionally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, werfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/04/2025 to 06/18/2025 Salary $161,128 - $225,700 per year Pay scale & grade ES 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Yosemite Nional Park, CA Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Senior Executive Promotion potential 00 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number WO-1614-SESO-25-12743385 Control number 838134200 This job is open to The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Senior executives Individuals looking for an executive-level job and who meet the five Executive Core Qualificions (ECQs). Duties This complex role involves managing the iconic nional park including its infrastructure, employees, and ors. The Superintendent is responsible for carrying out the legislive mande to preserve, protect, restore, and interpret these areas. The Superintendent also exercises direction over Devils Postpile Nional Monument. Responsibilities include: The Superintendent oversees daily operions, planning, management decisions, and implemention of park policy; provides executive leadership of park staff, volunteers, and assessment of park programs; and, manages a multi-million dollar opering budget. Leads stregic planning and establishes short and long-range goals and standards of operions to ensure effective park operions and policy. Represents the Director in interactions with the Secretary of the Interior and members of his/her staff, local/ste/regional leaders of other federal/land management agencies, members of Congress and Congressional staff, ste/county/local leadership, tribal leaders, leadership of partner organizions, and other ste, local and geway communities and authorized concessionaires. Implements cooperive agreements, contracts, special use permits, and instruments th define the parks' relionship with a variety of partners and commercial interests. Manages and directs the parks' partnerships and public awareness programs and a public relions program. This includes concessions, public use management, stewardship, and community outreach. Leads a complex law enforcement and emergency service program, including the Emergency Communicions Center, dispch services for Lassen Volcanic Nional Park and Devils Postpile Nional Monument, and Yosemite's complex fire management program. Develops resource protection and restorion stregies for the parks' historic and cultural resources and preserves the nural feures for future generions and stregies for educion and interpretive programs. Maintains and operes nearly 500 miles of road, over 800 miles of surface and graded trails, over 2,000 buildings and structures with dozens of wer systems and sewer systems, 14 campgrounds with approximely 1500 sites, and five entrance stions. Plans manages, and directs the maintenance, repair, rehabilition, and operion of all facilities. Responsible for the development of project cost, scope, scheduling, and contract management for large-scale projects from multiple fund sources. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. You must be able to obtain/maintain a Tier 5 background investigion. This position sensitivity is Non-Critical Sensitive. Selectees may be required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use. Males must meet Selective Service Registrion Act requirements. To verify registrion SSS.gov. You required to make occasional travel. Selections are subject to Department approval. Initial appointments to the SES must have ECQs certified by an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualificions Review Board before the appointment and required to serve a one-year probionary period. Individuals selected for an SES position are subject to reassignment. Agencies must request OPM approval to appoint current or former (within five years) Executive Branch political appointees to permanent competitive service, non-political excepted service, or career SES position. Please make a note in your applicion package if you have held any of these positions within the last five years. A Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-278, and the supplemental form, Confidential Stement of Employment and Financial Interest is required within 30 days after the selection for this position. Qualificions We are looking for an individual with experience in successfully managing the preservion of a park in a large, geographically dispersed organizion who demonstres experience in cultural and nural resources management, managing recreion and public use programs, working with executive teams, sound judgment; and, possesses strong communicion and interpersonal skills. Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Candides will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or nional origin. To be considered, you must submit a two-page resume (max), and a comprehensive narrive stement th addresses each Technical Qualificion (TQ) and each Executive Core Qualificion (ECQ). Applicants who do not submit a supplemental narrive stement th addresses each of these factors will not be Mandory Technical Qualificions (TQs) *Required Documention* : TQs are designed to assess an applicant's experience relevant to the specific position requirements. Each TQ narrive response should 1) not exceed two pages per TQ for a total of 4 pages; 2) include specific examples of your experience, educion, and/or accomplishments; and 3) address specific challenges, contexts, actions, and results. 1. Describe your knowledge and experience in managing public lands which includes addressing operional issues involving complex programs such as or services, law enforcement, nural/cultural resource management and protection, interpretion, a fire management program, safety, concessions management, maintenance management, partnerships, entrepreneurial management, public land management, conservion, and recreion management. 2. Describe your ability to negotie and manage partnerships directly reled to land management operions to include a wide range of stakeholders from a cross-section of organizions; and your understanding of governmental budgets to include congressional appropriions, large donions, concessions management, fee-based funding, and large-scale project funding or equivalent. Executive Core Qualificions: By stute, the Office of Personnel Management prescribes Executive Core Qualificions (ECQs) for the appointment of career SES members. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and not technical expertise. Please prepare one or two examples for each of the five ECQs below. ECQ narrives must not exceed ten pages in total. ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: You must have demonstred an ability to bring about stregic change, both within and outside the organizion, to meet organizional goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizional vision and implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creivity & Innovion, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Stregic Thinking, Vision ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: You must demonstre the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizion's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to the ECQ is the ability to develop others, facilite cooperion and teamwork, and support constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Developing Others, Team Building ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: This core qualificion involves the ability to meet organizional goals and customer expections. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions th produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculing risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: This ECQ involves the ability to manage human, financial, and informion resources stregically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This ECQ involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, Ste and local governments, nonprofit and prive sector organizions, foreign governments, or internional organizions to achieve common goals. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiing FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES: The following competencies are the foundion for success in each of the Executive Core Qualificions: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communicion, Integrity/Honesty, Written Communicion, Continual Learning, Public Service Motivion Your ECQ responses should address your Challenge, Context, Actions, and Results for each example. Please give a complete and detailed answer for each specific mandory qualificion demonstring your experience. Qualificions evalued based on how clearly and concisely you emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of your programs; services managed; program accomplishments; policy initiives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues addressed; and the results of your actions taken. Typically experience will have been gained the GS-15 grade level in the federal service or equivalent in the prive sector or non-governmental organizions. Each ECQ and TQ have unique qualificions. Therefore, duplice responses are not sufficient in determining if you meet th specific qualificion. Do not refer to your resume to explain your experience or your applicion package considered incomplete and will not be Failure to submit a narrive stement, specifically address the mandory ECQs and/or TQs clearly, or if you exceed the page limits, you will not be Already SES Certified? If you are currently serving under a career Senior Executive Service appointment, are eligible for reinstement into the Senior Executive Service, or have completed a Senior Executive Service Candide Development Program (SES CDP) approved by OPM, you only need to submit a narrive stement covering each of the Technical Qualificions. You do not need to submit ECQs. SES CDP gradues must submit a copy of their CDP program certificion with their package. Educion No mandory educion requirement. Additional informion --A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the Nional Park Service from another Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR 575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive. --A Relocion Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the Nional Park Service (NPS), to a different locion least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record is currently loced, due to a need of the NPS. A relocion incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another. --SES does not have Veteran's Preference and time in grade restrictions. Competitive stus is not required. --Individuals selected for Senior Executive Service positions may be subject to reassignment across geographical, organizional, and functional lines. --The Department of the Interior structures its SES positions into cegories to determine the minimum pay for each position. Pay is set based on considerion of the selectee's current salary and other factors. --Effective January 1, 2010, OPM must authorize any employment offers we make to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employees in the executive branch. lf you are currently or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you must disclose th to the Human Resources Office. --If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document th you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for informion regarding an Alterne Applicion. Click the following link for more informion, . Benefits How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Applicants who meet the mandory executive and technical qualificions evalued by a panel of SES members to determine the degree to which they possess each of the listed qualificions. Total background, including experience, ECQ, and TQ narrives, awards, and training reviewed. This informion obtained from your uploaded documents. Benefits Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies. Please upload the following documents: Resume (not to exceed two pages) Narrive responses to the Technical Qualificions not to exceed 4 pages total. (mandory for all applicants) Narrives for the Executive Core Qualificions not to exceed 10 pages total. (not required by current SES, SES reinstement eligible or SES CDP OPM certified gradue) If current or former Federal employee, submit SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action (or equivalent ); please do not send an SF-50 for an award. Strongly Recommended: Performance Evaluion (not more than 2 years old) How to Apply You must submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES. Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you prompted to log in or . Prompted to Start the Applicion Process by selecting "Start Applicion." To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: Add your two-page resume. Select the documents you want to be included in this applicion. Review the package to acknowledge th your documents were reviewed. After reading and certifying the applicion is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site." Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your applicion. Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown. Upload any missing required documents or optional documents. Review and Submit Applicion. While logged in, you can check the stus of your applicion by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position. You can review or revise your applicion any point during the open period of the announcement. To upde an applicion, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Upde Applicion" for this job. Note: When you click Upde Applicion , you prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first applicion will no longer be associed with the applicant record. So you must select all documents you want to use in the re-applicion. Agency contact informion Sharon Benitez Phone Address Senior Executive Service Office 1849 C Street N.W. Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps The NPS will conduct a qualificions evaluion of applicants who supply all of the required merial. Qualified applicants red and ranked by an executive-level ring panel. Best-qualified candides referred to the selecting official for further considerion and possible interview. You notified of the outcome after the completion of the selection process. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents Please upload the following documents: Resume (not to exceed two pages) Narrive responses to the Technical Qualificions not to exceed 4 pages total. (mandory for all applicants) Narrives for the Executive Core Qualificions not to exceed 10 pages total. (not required by current SES, SES reinstement eligible or SES CDP OPM certified gradue) If current or former Federal employee, submit SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action (or equivalent ); please do not send an SF-50 for an award. Strongly Recommended: Performance Evaluion (not more than 2 years old) How to Apply You must submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive considerion, the complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES. Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you prompted to log in or . Prompted to Start the Applicion Process by selecting "Start Applicion." To PREVIEW the applicion questionnaire, select the following link: Add your two-page resume. Select the documents you want to be included in this applicion. Review the package to acknowledge th your documents were reviewed. After reading and certifying the applicion is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site." Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your applicion. Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown. Upload any missing required documents or optional documents. Review and Submit Applicion. While logged in, you can check the stus of your applicion by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position. You can review or revise your applicion any point during the open period of the announcement. To upde an applicion, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Upde Applicion" for this job. Note: When you click Upde Applicion , you prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first applicion will no longer be associed with the applicant record. So you must select all documents you want to use in the re-applicion. Agency contact informion Sharon Benitez Phone Address Senior Executive Service Office 1849 C Street N.W. Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps The NPS will conduct a qualificions evaluion of applicants who supply all of the required merial. Qualified applicants red and ranked by an executive-level ring panel. Best-qualified candides referred to the selecting official for further considerion and possible interview. You notified of the outcome after the completion of the selection process. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/04/2025 to 06/18/2025 Salary $161,128 - $225,700 per year Pay scale & grade ES 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Yosemite Nional Park, CA Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed YesYou may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Senior Executive Promotion potential 00 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number WO-1614-SESO-25-12743385 Control number 838134200 .,

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