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Current Job Opportunities

Applications for jobs with the National Park Service are accepted via USAJOBS.gov, the federal government's official source for job listings and employment information. The jobs listed below are drawn from USAJOBS.gov; clicking on any of them will take you to the detailed job announcement on that site, including a contact person if you have questions. Learn more about working for the National Park Service. Please see link above for all lifeguard positions.

Biologist/Physical Scientist- Direct Hire Authority
Open Period: 3/12/24 to 3/18/24 or once 50 applications have been received
Series and Grade: GS 0401/1301 12
Salary: $95,694 - $132,807 per year
Location(s): Staten Island Unit/Jamaica Bay Unit/Northeast Region Office - find out more about the location in the announcement.
Who Can Apply: Applications will be accepted from any U.S. Citizen. DIRECT HIRING AUTHORITY will be used to fill this position.
Job Description:

  • Serves as senior advisor regarding impacts of climate change and sea level rest to infrastructure and facilities, cultural resources, natural resources and other planning concerns in coastal and riverine environments.
  • Reviews storm risk management projects, plans and specification to evaluate technical sufficiency and identify potential impacts to park natural, cultural and recreational resources.
  • Serves as technical expert in geomorphology, hydrology and hydrodynamics of riverine, estuarine and coastal systems.
  • Represents Park management on interdisciplinary and interagency teams relating to climate change and storm risk management.
  • Carries out program management duties by developing work plans and schedules, scopes of work, cost estimates, and proposals and/or grants to justify funding requests and accomplish goals.

Term Appointment
This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years, or more based on any changes to regulations governing the number of years term appointments may last, without further competition. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service.

Seasonal Tractor Operator
Open Period:
3/07/24 to 3/21/24
Series and Grade: WG 5705 6
Salary: $26.20 - $30.57 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Incumbents responsible for operating various types of equipment including, but not limited to tractors, skid steers, forklifts (including steer forklifts), snowplows, grass cutters, and carts.

  • Incumbent's duties include operating wheel mounted tractors and towed or attached equipment to perform tasks, including transporting materials and equipment, towing, digging, loading, planting, clearing or mowing

  • Operators maintain grounds and roads under various conditions including mud, wet ground, and sand.

  • Incumbent responsible for determining the appropriate attachments and / or apparatus needed to perform assigned tasks in a safe manner.

  • Responsible for performing routine maintenance on various motorized equipment in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations and supervisor's request ensuring equipment is kept in working condition.

  • Please note that this is a temporary position, and will last approximately six months.

Laborer (MVO)
Open Period:
3/08/24 to 3/18/24
Series and Grade: WG 3502 4
Salary: $23.14 - $27 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description: The selectee of these Laborer (Motor Vehicle Operator) positions will work for Gateway National Recreation Area, Division of Facility Management, with a duty station in the Jamaica Bay Maintenance Operation. The selectee operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, chain saws, brush cutters, brush chippers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand and light power tools (such as shovels, pulaskis, picks, digging bars, rakes, lawn edging equipment, electric drills, etc.), to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, trails, etc. Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes and sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, cleans and repairs fire pits. Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads. Moves heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; uses heavy type power mowers including adjusting blades, cleaning and oiling. Cuts trees and heavy vegetation with axe, chainsaw, or powered brush cutters; stacks heavy logs, lumber, and sacks of cement, etc., or performs other duties requiring similar judgment and comparable physical effort. Performs janitorial duties for buildings and grounds when required.

Motor Vehicle Operation Operates and performs minor operator maintenance on light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, carryalls, sedans, crew cab pickup trucks, which typically have an approximate gross vehicle weight of up to 4500 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules and standard routes to transport personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools throughout the park under limited traffic conditions at low speeds.

Facilities Service Assistant
Open Period:
3/08/24 to 3/25/24 or once 50 applications have been received
Series and Grade: GS 1603 6/7
Salary: $51,829 - $74,874 per year
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Staten Island Units
Who Can Apply: All current government employees with competitive eligibility; and CTAP/ICTAP eligibles; current or former time-limited employees eligibles under PL-114-47, Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA); Public Land Corp eligibles; Peace Corp/VISTA; VEOA; reinstatement and reassignment eligibles
Job Description:

This position is located in the Facility Management Division of a National Park Service unit characterized by a diversified infrastructure consisting of several visitor/resource venues, standard utility systems, and multiple asset types. Buildings vary in structural makeup and grounds may involve extensive landscaping. Maintenance responsibility includes buildings and utilities, roads and trails, campgrounds, and interpretive media throughout the park.

  • Familiar with work practices and terminology related to repair, rehabilitation, construction, and maintenance of structures including but not limited to roads, trails, landscapes, buildings, water and wastewater system.
  • Perform operational functions associated with facility management programs including asset inventories, condition assessments, and interpreting blueprints/drawings.
  • Establish work orders for standard park operations, with estimates for personnel, supplies, materials, and equipment needed to complete identified work.
  • Perform a variety of administrative work for a division or work group, including timekeeping, filing, responding to phone calls and mail.
  • Prepare memorandums, reports, requests for information, and other correspondence for approval and signature.
  • Establish priorities for clerical work to ensure the efficiency of the organization.
  • Conducts and tracks purchasing of supplies, services, and equipment for a division or work group.
  • Accurately inputs specific data information for locations, assets, personnel, equipment inventory, vendors, budget, and account information into a program database.
  • Tracks purchase card charges, budget cost projections, and status of funds reports utilizing an accounting software system.
  • Input various utility data (fleet, energy, water usage, Direct Order 35B Reporting, etc.) into a facility management tracking system.
  • Use MS Excel or other spreadsheet software to generate custom-filtered reports.
  • Provide training and guidance on facility management software programs to non-expert staff.
  • Collect and analyze data from a variety of maintenance databases.
  • Develops quality control and assurance protocols to verify accuracy of data.
  • Prepare reports using information from a variety of sources in order to inform management decisions.
  • Establish controls on items that are administratively sensitive to ensure time frames on reply due dates are on target
  • Completes property inventories for a division or work group.

Public Safety Dispatcher

Open Period: 2/12/24 to 6/03/24
Series and Grade: GS 2151 5
Salary: $46,494 per year
Location(s): Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description: Operates two-way multi-channel emergency communications radio system and law enforcement computer databases. Secures sensitive confidential law enforcement information. Prioritizes multiple radio and telephone traffic to support law enforcement operations. Completes and interprets electronic criminal history searches. Uses and maintains various office equipment and computer software programs. Operates NCIC computer system and multi-channel emergency radio communications system. Disseminates accurate information, rules and regulations both orally and in writing. Communicates effectively through all available methods. Use of phone professionally to solve problems, gain information, and to interact with visitors, local Emergency response agencies, and park staff. Provides general information, explains policies and regulations in stressful situations, and diffuses volatile or aggressive behavior. Directs staff and visitors during emergency situations. Resolves customer service complaints.

Laborer
Open Period:
2/12/24 to 8/12/24
Series and Grade: WG 3502 3
Salary: $21.57 - $25.18 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Operate heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand tools (such as shovels, rakes, lawn edging equipment, etc,;) to maintain buildings, grounds, roads, and trails, etc.
  • Load and unload supplies and material from trucks, trailers, dollie, etc.
  • Move furniture, remove and set signs, paint picnic tables and signs, rake and water lawns, trim trees and shrubs, pick up litter, and clean fire pits.
  • Dig ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads.
  • Move heavily loaded wheelbarrows and hand trucks; utilize heavy type power mowers including adjusting, cleaning, and oiling blades.
  • This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.


Seasonal Laborer (MVO)
Open Period:
1/29/24 to 7/29/24
Series and Grade: WG 3502 4
Salary: $24.14 - $27 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Operates heavy power equipment such as lawn mowers, brush cutters, brush chippers, portable snow blowers, and all types of hand and light power tools (such as shovels, pulaskis, picks, digging bars, rakes, lawn edging equipment, electric drills, etc.), to maintain buildings,
    grounds, roads, trails, etc.
  • Loads and unloads supplies and materials from trucks, trailers, dollies, etc. Moves furniture, removes and sets signs, paints picnic tables and signs, rakes and waters lawns, trims trees and shrubbery, picks up litter, cleans and repairs fire pits.
  • Digs ditches and trenches with pick and shovel where soil is hard and compact and must grade or slope; occasionally breaks up pavement, soil, or concrete; mixes and pours concrete, asphalt, and hot/cold mix; fills and levels holes in damaged roads
  • Operates and performs minor operator maintenance on light duty motor vehicles such as pickup trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, carryalls, sedans, crew cab pickup trucks, which typically have an approximate gross vehicle weight of up to 4500 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules and standard routes to transport personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools throughout the park under limited traffic conditions at low speeds.
  • Performs janitorial duties for buildings and grounds when required

This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.

Health Technician (Emergency Medical Technician)
Open Period:
1/24/24 to 6/07/24
Series and Grade: GS 0640 5
Salary: $44,057 per year
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Responding to emergency medical assistance calls by ambulance, patrol vehicle, and / or on foot to emergency scenes while adhering to park standard operating procedures, governing traffic ordinances and laws pertaining to the operation of emergency and patrol vehicles.
  • Independently conducts accurate and complete patient assessments in the field, ambulance and clinical setting. Uses advanced knowledge of topographic anatomy, knowledge of major body systems, knowledge of emergency medical techniques and procedures and knowledge relevant to understanding the legal considerations of emergency care.
  • Perform initial triage of patient(s), following with additional patient assessment. Selects appropriate patient treatment protocol and/or modifies protocols independently from basic approaches, if necessary. Appropriately determines the nature, extent, and seriousness of the patient's condition. Identifies and treats trauma and medical emergencies using knowledge of emergency medical treatment techniques/procedures, topographic anatomy, and major body systems (e.g.; skeletal, muscular, nervous, etc.).
  • Appropriately documents all assessment findings, treatments and procedures, patient demographics, insurance and billing information. Demonstrates literacy in computerized information systems.
  • Recognizes the signs and symptoms of life-threatening and non-life-threatening trauma and medical emergencies. Provides appropriate basic treatment as outlined in governing protocol(s), in route, or until advanced or definitive care is provided. Conducts field treatment at scene, in route or until definitive care is provided. Assists with patient treatment in clinical setting under the supervision and direction of a higher level provider.
  • Communicates clearly and professionally, both orally and in writing, with patients, medical staff and public safety personnel, exhibiting familiarity with medical terminology.
  • Ensures excellent condition of all ambulance supplies, medication and equipment to include checking expiration dates, stock amounts, functionality, cleanliness and repair/replacement as needed.

This is a temporary position and will last approximately six months.

Biological Science Technician
Open Period: 1/18/24 to 3/25/2024
Series and Grade: GS 0404 5
Salary: $18.06 - $21.11 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Make field observations of natural resource conditions.
  • Lead and/or coordinate volunteers and youth work groups in carrying out stewardship and science activities.
  • Implement established natural resource management projects using appropriate resource management equipment.
  • Assist in natural resource data entry and preparation of reports, plans, and guidelines.
  • Provides information, advice, assistance, and training to others involved in projects and research.

This is a seasonal position that will last for approximately six months.

Laborer Leader (MVO)
Open Period: 1/01/24 to 7/01/24
Series and Grade: WL 3502 4
Salary: $25.43 - $29.65 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description: This position is a laborer leader assigned responsibility for performing laboring duties that require moderately heavy physical effort requiring the use of common hand tools and power equipment involving any or all of the following duties.
The position provides daily direction to at least three (3) workers to accomplish laborer work on a regular and recurring part of the job and exercised on a substantially full time and continuing basis.
In order to accomplish the laborer duties, the incumbent must on a regular and recurring basis also operate light duty motor vehicles weighing up to 10,000 pounds (such as pick-up trucks, panel trucks, flatbed trucks, etc.) to transport personnel, material, or equipment to work sites located throughout the park.
This is a temporary position, and will last approximately six months.

Lead Recreation Fee Technician
Open Period: 1/11/24 to 6/10/24
Series and Grade: GS 0503 6
Salary: $49,113 per year
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description: As a Lead Recreation Fee Technician, incumbent is responsible for collecting appropriate fees at park entrance station and/or other visitor contact stations following established accountability guidelines for handling government funds. Incumbent operates an electronic cash register, computer or point of sales system, performs opening and closing shift functions, issues receipts, park passes and federal recreation passes. Incumbent completes shift reports to verify money collected, accountable stock sold and all machine transactions from the shift, using journal and receipt tapes, end of shift reports, and a register of voided transactions. Safeguards and secures funds collected and personal accountable stock. Incumbent prepares remittance reports and bank deposits for funds collected but may not prepare these reports for any shift for which they collect fees. Pulls vaults, canisters, counts and opens registration envelopes. Maintains necessary accountability records. Troubleshoots accounting problems by correcting difficult errors that are unsolvable by others which may involve correction of related reports. May perform reconciliations of credit card transactions and revenue generated through pay.gov and/or national reservation service. Conducts cash register and entrance station audits as required. Lead Recreation Fee Technician is responsible for providing current, accurate information to visitors concerning the NPS area and other surrounding areas of interest. Incumbent explains the area's recreational opportunities, including NPS interpretive services, concession operated facilities and services, campground availability and hiking trails; distributes maps, brochures and other printed material; informs visitors of potential safety hazards; and provides directions and routes of travel through the park. This is a temporary position, and will last approximately six months.

Supervisory Recreation Fee Technician
Open Period: 1/11/24 to 6/17/24
Series and Grade: GS 0503 7
Salary: $54,576 per year
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description: Supervisory Recreation Fee Technician incumbent is responsible for collecting appropriate fees at park entrance station and/or other visitor contact stations following established accountability guidelines for handling government funds.
Incumbent operates an electronic cash register, computer or point of sales system, performs opening and closing shift functions, issues receipts, park passes and federal recreation passes.

Incumbent completes shift reports to verify money collected, accountable stock sold and all machine transactions from the shift, using journal and receipt tapes, end of shift reports, and a register of voided transactions. Safeguards and secures funds collected and personal accountable stock. Incumbent prepares remittance reports and bank deposits for funds collected but may not prepare these reports for any shift for which they collect fees. Pulls vaults, canisters, counts and opens registration envelopes. Maintains necessary accountability records. Troubleshoots accounting problems by correcting difficult errors that are unsolvable by others which may involve correction of related reports.
May perform reconciliations of credit card transactions and revenue generated through pay.gov and/or national reservation service. Conducts cash register and entrance station audits as required.

Supervisory Recreation Fee Technician is responsible for daily oversight of fee collection operations. Additional duties include responsible for providing current, accurate information to visitors concerning the NPS area and other surrounding areas of interest. Incumbent explains the area's recreational opportunities, including NPS interpretive services, concession operated facilities and services, campground availability and hiking trails; distributes maps, brochures and other printed material; informs visitors of potential safety hazards; and provides directions and routes of travel through the park.
This is a temporary position lasting for approximately six months.

Motor Vehicle Operator
Open Period: 1/15/24 to 7/15/24
Series and Grade: WG 5703 5
Salary: $24.66 - $28.79 per hour
Location(s): Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook Units
Who Can Apply: The public
Job Description:

  • Operates and performs operator maintenance on one of more motor vehicles. Vehicles are driven on the basis of either specific trip assignments or regularly established schedules over public roads (or the equivalent) at highway speeds to transport, personnel, supplies, materials, or equipment and tools or to tow equipment throughout rural or urban areas (various kinds of traffic) and varying weather conditions.
  • Loads cargo onto the vehicle, using appropriate tie-downs such as chains, binders, or straps for transit on public roads at highway speeds or under similar driving circumstances.
  • Safely transports passengers or cargo to their destinations throughout rural or urban areas on park and/or public roads in a full range of traffic conditions (or the equivalent).
  • Makes couplings between vehicle and towed equipment.
  • Completes daily work and/or trip reports required.
  • Performs routine custodial and laborer duties, including cleaning restrooms and other campground or visitor facilities, collects trash, makes minor repairs as needed.
  • May be assigned to assist journeyman performing a variety of other duties such as painting, plumbing, carpentry, and electrical; assisting higher grade worker with maintenance of utility systems, including sewer and electrical distribution; trails and grounds work; and asphalt work and road maintenance by repairing pavement surfaces; painting/repairing refuse containers/dumpsters.

This is a temporary position, and will last approximately six months.

Last updated: March 14, 2024

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