Wildland Firefighter (Senior Advisor) - Direct Hire Authority

Wildland Firefighter (Senior Advisor) - Direct Hire Authority Department of the Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior US Wildland Fire Service Summary This position supports the US Wildland Fire Service as a Wildland Firefighter (Senior Advisor), GW-0456-14. Position is loced in Boise, Idaho the Nional Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and supports the Fire Readiness and Training Directore. Learn more about this agency Summary This position supports the US Wildland Fire Service as a Wildland Firefighter (Senior Advisor), GW-0456-14. Position is loced in Boise, Idaho the Nional Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and supports the Fire Readiness and Training Directore. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply today Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 2, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Boise, ID No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $129,549 - $168,420 per year Pay scale & grade GW 14 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0456 Wildland Fire Management Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk High Risk (HR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required Yes Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

WFSDHA-26-12961079-CF-A

Control number 873557800 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency Applicions accepted from any U.S. Citizen.

DIRECT HIRING AUTHORITY

used to fill this position. Veteran's preference and traditional ring and ranking of applicions do not apply. All qualified applicants referred to the hiring manager for considerion for this position. Videos Duties Help Provides stregic policy advice and guidance within the assigned nional fire management portfolio, which may include fire operions ensuring alignment with fire readiness and training systems, fuels and prescribed fire programs, fire ecology and monitoring, safety, aviion, intelligence and analytics, facilities, partnerships, or reled program areas. Advises and assists senior leadership on mters th cut across the assigned portfolio, including advancing stregic initiives aligned with organizional needs and mission priorities. Advises senior leaders in developing budget guidance and business rules for the assigned nional fire management portfolio. Coordines with other USWFS divisions to ensure policy and budget alignment across fire management programs. Exercises deleged discretionary authority, as assigned, to approve the allocion and distribution of organizional funds within the portfolio. Collabores with Agency and USWFS leadership and key management officials to resolve complex issues affecting the assigned nional fire management portfolio and to build consensus on policy direction. Develops, maintains, and implements policies, procedures, and standards within the assigned portfolio in coordinion with deputy directors, assistant directors, and other senior staff. Provides oversight of updes to policies and processes and leads USWFS, DOI, and interagency policy development efforts, issue analyses, and special projects as assigned. Maintains broad institutional knowledge of USWFS policies and programs and their relionship to the assigned fire management portfolio to ensure alignment with federal nural resource and public land management missions. Provides confidential advice and counsel to senior leadership on special projects and enterprise level initiives, ensuring feasibility and alignment with agency goals and policy direction. Leads and participes in cross-functional initiives to develop and implement policies, systems, performance frameworks, and evaluion processes applicable within the assigned portfolio. Engages regularly in multiagency and multidisciplinary coordinion involving multiple levels of government and stakeholders. Requirements Help Conditions of employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigion and favorable adjudicion. Meet Selective Service Registrion Act requirement for males. Selectee required to participe in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. You required to submit to a drug test and receive a negive drug test result prior to appointment. In addition, this position is subject to random testing for illegal drug use. You may be required to opere a government (or prive) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operor's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a Ste sealed envelope or submitted directly by the Ste authorities), and your own expense, all certified driving records from all Stes th disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. Work may require travel by fixed-wing or rotorwing aircraft. You may be required to wear a uniform and comply with the US Wildland Fire Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance provided. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. Subject to frequent extended travel up to 14 or more nights per month particularly during fire season, and you must obtain a government charge card for travel. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.

Notice of Financial Disclosure Report Requirement:

This position is subject to a financial disclosure requirement, and you required to complete either OGE Form 278e or OGE Form 450 as applicable within 30 days of your appointment. Qualificions In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualificions requirements as defined below by the closing de of the announcement. For more informion on the qualificions for this position, the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualificion Standards. Credit given for all approprie qualifying experience.

Your resume MUST clearly indice the nure of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending des of employment (month/year - month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rher than indicing full-time). If part-time, the hours must be listed to pro-re the specialized experience. If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualificions or specialized experience a ring of "ineligible" or "not qualified" applied and no considerion for employment granted. •NOTE - Please limit your resume to no more than 2 pages . If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. You can only submit one resume ; Only the resume submitted under the "Resume" "Document Type" used to determine your qualificions and for ring purposes. Des listed as active-duty military work on applicion th coincides with time listed on a DD-214 considered as FT work.

Basic Qualificion:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the

GS/GW-13

level in the federal government.

Examples of specialized experience include:

Developing, implementing, and evaluing policies, programs, and stregic initiives th advance fire management objectives. Ensured effective coordinion, resource integrion, and policy alignment across organizional units and interagency partners; represented senior leadership in internal and external forums; and provided expert guidance on policy, program effectiveness, and stregic initiives to support federal nural resource and public land management missions. -AND- This is an administrive position in an organizion having a firefighting mission, and is clearly in an established career ph. Prior firefighting experience, as gained by substantial service in a primary firefighter position or equivalent experience outside the Federal government is a

MANDATORY PREREQUISITE.

Applicants must have documented prior primary firefighting experience, with substantial service defined as either: At least one full fire season working in a primary wildland firefighting role (e.g., Engine Crew, Fire Effects Crew, Prescribed Fire/Fuels Crew, Hand Crew, Helitack Crew, Hotshot Crew, Smokejumper, Wildland Fire Modules or Fire Suppression Crews, etc.) with a federal, ste, tribal, local, or prive-sector organizion; - OR - At least 14-days of on-the-ground fireline experience (cumulive or consecutive). Prior primary wildland fire experience must be clearly documented in your resume.

Note:

an IQCS Master Record or equivalent document will not be used to determine or calcule prior primary wildland fire experience eligibility for this requirement.

Volunteer Experience:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Conditions of Employment, continued: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1 year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary 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 organizion 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 organizional 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 probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. Educion There is no educion substitute for specialized experience the

GW-0456-14

grade level. Additional informion This notice is being issued to recruit personnel to occupions for which a critical hiring need has been identified. To assist in filling these positions, OPM has granted the Department of the Interior "Direct Hire Authority". A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher re of pay. 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 US Wildland Fire Service from another component, bureau or 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 US Wildland Fire Service either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different locion least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held time of selection is currently loced, due to a need of the US Wildland Fire Service. 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.

Physical Demands:

Work is carried out primarily in an office or meeting room setting; however, occasional physical activity such as hiking and climbing in wildlands is required during on-site inspections. The work is mainly sedentary, usually performed a desk. There is, as needed, physical exertion while inspecting and evaluing the conditions of the fire sites and overall ground program which will include walking over rough, uneven terrain in any type of weher.

Working Conditions:

Most work is performed in an office setting. Travel (less than 25%) is for the purpose of meetings, training, onsite inspections, and fire policy implemention. The US Wildland Fire Service has determined th the duties of this position are suitable for situional telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. 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. Expand Hide additional informion 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. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions. You evalued based on how your applicion merials reflect the minimum qualificion requirements of this position. Once the job opportunity announcement closes, your resume and all supporting documents reviewed by HR to determine if you are minimally qualified for the position. If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualificions or specialized experience a ring of "ineligible" or "not qualified" applied and no considerion for employment granted. Due to this vacancy being filled through OPM's Direct Hire Authority, Veterans Preference and traditional ring and ranking of applicants does not apply to positions filled under this announcement. Applicions received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiive will also be accepted during the durion of the announcement. All minimally qualified candides referred for considerion. Please note th the hiring office may conduct interviews their discretion. Interviews may be conducted on a pass/fail basis. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help You must submit a complete applicion package. The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Resumes must show relevant experience and other informion. Your resume MUST list your educion and work experience including (1) the des (mm/yy) of each employment, along with (2) the number of hours worked per week, and (3) work experience duties listed under each job entry. In addition, Civil Service employees must provide their current OPM title, series, and grade. If experience is for a career ladder position, please ensure to clearly show how long you were working in each grade level. Your resume used to valide your responses to the assessment tool(s). Failure to provide required informion will result in loss of eligibility. No assumptions made about your experience and/or educion. You are welcome to submit a cover letter. Resumes must also include name and how to best contact you, including email address and phone number. Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents. In describing your experience, please be clear and specific. Visit the USAJOBS Help Center for more informion on Wh should I include in my federal resume and/or OPM Resume Writing Tips . In addition to the online applicion (resume and responses to the questionnaire), you are required to submit the following supplemental documention as applicable:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention:

documention verifying your

CTAP/ICTAP

eligibility - this includes a copy of the agency notice and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level and duty locion. Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Review the appointment eligibility criteria in the applicion preview linked below. The eligibility section of the applicion allows you to choose how you wish to be considered for this vacancy announcement. You will ONLY be considered for the eligibilities th you select "yes" to and submit the required supporting documention, as listed in the Required Documents section or the applicion text. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond th you do not meet any of the eligibility criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package . See required documents section. Click 'Apply' to cree an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire and upload required documents. To preview the assessment questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12961079 . Please ensure you check the acknowledgement checkbox then click the Submit Applicion button to submit your applicion. Applicions must be received by 07/02/2026, 11:59pm ET to receive considerion. Check applicion stus by logging into your USAJOBS account, in Applicions tab, click the position title you applied to for the stus. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please refer to the contact informion listed the bottom of the announcement. Agency contact informion Christine Funderburk Phone 000-000-0000 christine_funderburk@ios.doi.gov Address Office of the Secretary 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps Once you submit all the required documents and the online applicion in USAJOBS, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After the evaluion process is complete, you notified of your stus and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted by the hiring official. You notified if this job is filled or canceled. Timelines for this process vary widely. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. If you were not referred and/or have questions or concerns regarding your ring determinion or referral stus, in the interest of time, please submit your inquiry in writing within seven (7) calendar days of receiving a Notice of Results and Referral notificion email. Inquiries may be submitted to contact listed on this announcement. Be sure to include the announcement number to assist our team in reviewing your inquiry. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help You must submit a complete applicion package. The following documents are required and must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Resumes must show relevant experience and other informion. Your resume MUST list your educion and work experience including (1) the des (mm/yy) of each employment, along with (2) the number of hours worked per week, and (3) work experience duties listed under each job entry. In addition, Civil Service employees must provide their current OPM title, series, and grade. If experience is for a career ladder position, please ensure to clearly show how long you were working in each grade level. Your resume used to valide your responses to the assessment tool(s). Failure to provide required informion will result in loss of eligibility. No assumptions made about your experience and/or educion. You are welcome to submit a cover letter. Resumes must also include name and how to best contact you, including email address and phone number. Do not include the following types of informion in your resume: Classified or government sensitive informion Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal informion, such as age, gender, religious affiliion, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents. In describing your experience, please be clear and specific. Visit the USAJOBS Help Center for more informion on Wh should I include in my federal resume and/or OPM Resume Writing Tips . In addition to the online applicion (resume and responses to the questionnaire), you are required to submit the following supplemental documention as applicable:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention:

documention verifying your

CTAP/ICTAP

eligibility - this includes a copy of the agency notice and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level and duty locion. Failure to submit any of the above-mentioned required documents will result in loss of considerion due to an incomplete applicion package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Review the appointment eligibility criteria in the applicion preview linked below. The eligibility section of the applicion allows you to choose how you wish to be considered for this vacancy announcement. You will ONLY be considered for the eligibilities th you select "yes" to and submit the required supporting documention, as listed in the Required Documents section or the applicion text. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond th you do not meet any of the eligibility criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package . See required documents section. Click 'Apply' to cree an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire and upload required documents. To preview the assessment questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12961079 . Please ensure you check the acknowledgement checkbox then click the Submit Applicion button to submit your applicion. Applicions must be received by 07/02/2026, 11:59pm ET to receive considerion. Check applicion stus by logging into your USAJOBS account, in Applicions tab, click the position title you applied to for the stus. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please refer to the contact informion listed the bottom of the announcement. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Christine Funderburk Phone 000-000-0000 christine_funderburk@ios.doi.gov Address Office of the Secretary 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 US Next steps Once you submit all the required documents and the online applicion in USAJOBS, you will receive an acknowledgement email th your submission was successful. After the evaluion process is complete, you notified of your stus and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted by the hiring official. You notified if this job is filled or canceled. Timelines for this process vary widely. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging in to your USAJOBS account as we will not be responding to inquiries about the stus of applicions as long as the system has been upded. If you were not referred and/or have questions or concerns regarding your ring determinion or referral stus, in the interest of time, please submit your inquiry in writing within seven (7) calendar days of receiving a Notice of Results and Referral notificion email. Inquiries may be submitted to contact listed on this announcement. Be sure to include the announcement number to assist our team in reviewing your inquiry. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply today Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 2, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Boise, ID No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $129,549 - $168,420 per year Pay scale & grade GW 14 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required Yes Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

WFSDHA-26-12961079-CF-A

Control number 873557800