This Landscape Architect, GS-0807-11 Term position in the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, located at one of the following locations: Harpers Ferry WV, (DEWA) Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area located in Bushkill PA, (SHEN) Shenandoah National Park located in Luray VA, and (BLRI) Blue Ridge Parkway located in Ashville NC.

Duties

Duties my include but are not limited to the following: Responsible for the identification, research, planning, treatment, and preservation maintenance of cultural landscapes and interconnected natural resources. Prepares and maintains cultural landscape inventories documenting the location, historical development, condition, and management of cultural landscapes in the park. Conducts or oversees documentary research and field investigations in support of park planning and environmental compliance reviews. Prepares written reports, graphic illustrations, and plans associated with managing cultural landscapes. Prepares cultural landscape reports on existing conditions and defining treatment actions based on examination of the landscape, documentary research, and professional evaluation of data. Develops and maintains liaisons and effective working relations with partners, tribes, agencies, and the public.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-05/17/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (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, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. Basic Qualification requirement for a Landscape Architect, GS-0807-11 position: 1) Degree: Bachelors or higher degree in landscape architecture or landscape design. or 2) Combination of education and experience -- for each year short of graduation, the applicant must have had 1 year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education. This experience must have included original landscape design. Experience Equivalent to a Degree in Landscape Architecture: A degree in landscape architecture indicates that an applicant has the basic background to perform professional landscape architectural work at the beginning levels and has the potential to develop the skills and abilities required at the higher levels. Experience may be substituted for education to the extent that it provided the equivalent background. However, because an education provides some knowledge that cannot be measured in terms of course content, but rather is part of general knowledge and cultural background gained as a result of interrelationships among courses, careful judgment must be used in evaluation experience substituted for education as provided for in the basic requirements. AND 1) At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Examples of specialized experience include: basic research and field experience contributing to the collection of data, drawings, photographs and primary sources for the development of a Cultural Landscape Inventory (CLI) or similar preliminary research document; basic understanding and use of cultural resources preservation legislation, policies, guidelines and/or standards to contribute to planning documents; using industry standard design technology such as AutoCAD, InDesign and Photoshop to prepare map products for inclusion in inventory and research projects. OR 2) Three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree directly related to the position. OR 3) A combination of specialized experience and directly related education. To calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education, divide your number of semester hours in excess of 36 semester hours by 18 (or in excess of 45 quarter hours by 27) or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. To calculate your percentage of experience, divide your months of qualifying specialized experience by 12. Add the two percentages. They must equal at least 100% to qualify using this option.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address
• Name: Alejandra Torres-Freese
• Email: [email protected]