Forest Air Program Management (15% )
Manages air program for the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National
Forests. Develops long and short-term goals for program. Develops
out year and current year budgets. Coordinates monitoring
and research relating to air quality on the forests. Coordinates
with Regional Air Program personnel in both the Rocky Mountain
and Intermountain Regional offices. Coordinates with National
Air Program managers as necessary. Serves as the Forests'
representative to the Governor's Southwest Wyoming Technical
Air Forum. Serves on Green River Basin Visibility Study Steering
Committee.
Technical Leadership (15% )
Reviews Forests’ activities for compliance with air
quality laws and regulations and possible impacts to Forest
resources including Class I air sheds. Serves as the primary
contact with the air regulatory agencies, the Wyoming Department
of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection
Agency, regarding technical aspects of industrial pollution
permits, such as Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit
Applications, and other environmental review of major sources
of pollutants. Negotiates and provides technical assistance
to these and other land management agencies, including the
Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, in
the evaluation of projects and their possible impacts to Forest
resources. With the coordination of Region 2 and 4 personnel
and other Forest personnel, develops and drafts Forests' responses
to Federal and State officials for the Forest Supervisors’
signature. Provides briefings, training, and presentations
for District, Forest, National and Regional FS personnel.
Develops and gives informational presentations for other agencies
and local governments, special interest groups, and school
groups about air quality and current issues. Leads air quality
monitoring Center of Excellence as outlined in the Region
4 manual direction.
Management of Wind River Air -Quality Monitoring Program
(10%)
Oversees monitoring program including providing supervision,
training, and assistance to field personnel carrying out program.
This monitoring program involves year-round participation
as part of the national IMPROVE visibility monitoring network
and the National Atmospheric Deposition Program network. The
Wind River Air Quality monitoring program includes a year-round
bulk deposition, lake chemistry monitoring, macroinvertebrate
monitoring, zooplankton monitoring, and lichen monitoring
within wilderness areas. The Air Quality Program Manager supervises
a full-time air quality technician who carries out the actual
monitoring on the Bridger-Teton and provides oversight, coordination,
and technical assistance to the Shoshone National Forest for
their portion of the monitoring program. Coordinates with
interagency groups overseeing national programs, researchers,
and analytical laboratory managers. Ensures strict adherence
to safety and quality assurance/quality control procedures.
Maintains cooperative agreements with industry, state and
interagency groups. Serves as Contracting Officer's Representative
for contracts with analytical laboratories. Maintains budgets
and expenditure accounting as required in cooperative agreements
with industry. Develops project proposals for additional monitoring
with groups and agencies such as the Environmental Protection
Agency. Develops and reviews monitoring plans and quality
assurance/quality control plans for these special projects.
Data analysis and information management (10% )
Builds and maintains air quality monitoring database, providing
data and reports to various users. Conducts initial qualitative
and, quantitative analysis of monitoring data. Trains users
of database to enter and query data. Assists with NRIS Air
database development and implementation in the role of National
Core Team member and a National Pilot Project leader. Acts
as Forest Data Steward for NRIS Air data.
R4 NRIS Air Module Coordinator (50% )
Serves as the Regional technical authority in the management
and analysis of the NRIS Air data base system; provides technical
and management direction for the Region; makes major decisions
on data consistency, standards, development, management and
implementation in support of the Region’s resource management
programs.
Establishes and maintains the process (NRIS Air) for natural
resource and ecological features information and data to facilitate
subsequent analysis (i.e., map and tabular data). Assures
the integrity, compatibility, and cost efficiency of NRIS
Air implementation.
Provides coordination with all air quality inventories within
the region. Ensures quality control of inventories. Develops
programs of work to meet workload needs. Acts as the regional
data steward for air quality data and information.
Responsible for coordinating the activities of various Regional
office staffs and Forests to assure that quality software
is available, training and technical support are provided,
and quality, integrated information is maintained for use
by a variety of customers.
Establishes and implements National and Regional policies
and procedures that support the integrated corporate database
concept. Coordinates assigned activities and programs with
other Forest Resource programs. Supporting and explaining
program requirements and negotiating or resolving conflicts
with other program areas to assure acceptance and implementation
of assigned goals.
Coordinates the installation of system software Region-wide.
Reviews release notices of updated system versions. Makes
decision on appropriate time for installation of release at
the Forests, taking into consideration current status of data
entry and upward reporting situations. Assigns Regional NRIS
Air roles and privileges (approval of accessibility and level
of accessibility to the data base system).
Initiates and directs Regional NRIS Air training including
making sure the training facility is adequate and all hardware
and software are available and in working condition.
Responds to requests for information from Regional Office
Staffs, Forest Supervisors, other Regions, Washington Office
Staff, and the public. Prepares position statements regarding
implementation, use, and management of the corporate database
software and maintenance of data. Coordinates the development
of ORACLE scripts required to download and summarize data
from the system; and scripts, methods, and interfaces needed
to efficiently populate, and otherwise electronically interact
with, the NRIS Air database to the degree required for NRIS
Air to become a useable, working tool for the Regional Office
Staffs, Forest Supervisors, the WO Staffs, and the public.
Communicates and establishes rapport and working relationships
with a wide range of individuals including Forest Supervisors,
Regional Office Staff Directors, Regional and Forest Air Quality
Data Stewards and Regional NRIS Module Coordinators. Establishes
and maintains contacts with individuals who have similar program
responsibilities in Universities, EPA, BLM, and State Departments
of Natural Resources and/or Conservation.
Serves as the Intermountain Region’s representative
and spokesperson at National NRIS Air meetings, workshops,
and conferences. Provides input to and coordinates with the
Washington Office and other Regional Air Quality Program Managers
on development of policies and implementation of NRIS Air.
Communicates directly with National NRIS Air Program Manager,
Deployment Manager, System Analyst, National development team,
and other Regional NRIS Air Program Managers.
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Factor 1: Knowledge Required by the Position:
Professional knowledge of State and Federal laws, regulations,
policies and procedures that relate to air quality, wilderness,
planning, and environmental analysis to provide effective
leadership in the air quality program and to provide sound
advice to decision makers dealing with issues which could
affect or be affected by air quality issues.
Knowledge of the origin, transformation and transportation
of air pollutants to evaluate the possible environmental and/or
public health effects of air pollution.
Knowledge of the effects of forest management activities
on air quality, including prescribed fire, minerals, timber,
recreation, and wilderness management.
Skill in effective oral communications with a broad range
of audiences from other technical experts to schoolchildren.
Skill in negotiating and crafting agreements with other agencies,
industry, and special interest groups. Ability to write effective
and clear official Forest responses, position papers, technical
reports, briefings, scientific and general presentations,
course materials, and program documentation.
Applied knowledge of program management including specific
skills in supervision, long-term program development, budgeting,
and contracting.
Knowledge of air quality related values monitoring techniques
used in the Wind River Wilderness Air Quality Monitoring Program.
This monitoring includes the field and laboratory techniques
of the National Acid Deposition Program, field protocol and
equipment for the national IMPROVE aerosol modules, IMPROVE
transmissometer optical field techniques and protocol, long
term lake chemistry, bulk deposition, macroinvertebrates,
zooplankton, and lichens.
Familiarity of laboratory techniques used in field lab chemical
analysis, including standard protocols.
Knowledge of models used in air quality analysis such as
VISCREEN, CALPUFF/CALMET, MAGIC, and NFSPUFF to analyze both
external and FS activities for possible impacts to human health,
Class I air sheds, and other Forest resources.
Extensive knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices
of social science, biological science, physical science, geomorphology,
geology, and ecology that is applicable to a broad range of
business and resource practices to evaluate and make recommendation
on project technical requirements, to understand project functional
requirements, evaluate the effectiveness of proposals in meeting
program direction requirements, and to determine the consequences
of program decisions and integration of programs.
In-depth knowledge of the Forest Service NRIS Air database
system in order to serve as the Regional technical expert
and to provide guidance and management direction to the Forest
and other Resource program areas.
Comprehensive knowledge and skills in ORACLE, SQL, ACCESS,
GIS and PC spreadsheet and database software sufficient to
coordinate the development of scripts needed to obtain data
and summaries from the NRIS Air database, and interface with
other corporate and non-corporate software.
A working knowledge of land management planning and resource
program assessments in order to support the integrated corporate
database concept.
In depth knowledge of National Forest resource activities,
including engineering, recreation, heritage, wilderness, wildlife,
range, watershed, special uses and minrerals management sufficient
to evaluate relationships and management requirements for
a unified database.
Knowledge and skill to analyze, evaluate, and incorporate
the latest developments in database development and management
technology into technical guidelines and direction for the
Intermountain Region.
Knowledge and skill in written and oral communications sufficient
to conduct workshops, training sessions, management briefings
and to make oral presentations to large groups; write/formulate
complex reports, program plans, policies, system documentation
and converse with others of different backgrounds and interests.
Factor 2: Supervisory Controls:
General supervision is provided by the Forest Staff Officer
for the Ecology Resources Group. Program priorities and definition
of work to be accomplished are set by a steering committee
with representatives from both forests and the regional offices.
The incumbent is responsible for planning and carrying out
the assignment, resolving most of the conflicts, coordinating
the work with others including the two regional offices, and
interpreting policy on his/her own initiative in terms of
established objectives.
Regional NRIS Air work is under the general direction and
guidance of the Regional Natural Resources Information Officer,
who provides administrative direction with assignments in
terms of broadly defined missions or functions. Regional work
will be coordinated with the Forest Staff Officer for the
Ecology Resources Group and the incumbent.
The incumbent independently initiates new projects, carries
out programs, projects, and studies, approves technical deviations,
coordinates activities with other staff units, and assures
that missions and objectives are met or exceeded.
The completed work is considered technically authoritative
and is normally accepted without change. If the work should
be reviewed, the review concerns such matters as fulfillment
of program objectives, effect of advise and influence on the
overall program, or the contribution of the advancement of
technology.
Factor 3: Guidelines:
The Clean Air Act and its amendments, Forest Service policy
and guidelines, the Code of Federal Regulations, specific
agency guideline documents, written protocols, and technical
publications provide general guidance to the incumbent in
providing a viable and scientifically sound air resource program
on the Forests.
Incumbent must select appropriate guides from alternative
approaches and must develop new methods when established practices
are inadequate. Judgment and experience are used to develop
solutions or compromises.
Guides are often inadequate or insufficient for dealing with
the more complex problems concerned with novel, undeveloped,
or controversial aspects of the assignment, and there are
few precedents or guides that are pertinent to the specific
problems encountered. Considerable judgment and ingenuity
are required to resolve diverse problems. The incumbent must
exercise leadership and ingenuity in researching new techniques
and developing new or substantially modifying existing specifications
and criteria for the input of resource information into the
NRIA-Air system.
The incumbent is expected to identify the latest appropriate
technological concepts and practices and to incorporate them
in the resource plans and programs. The incumbent is recognized
as a technical authority in the development and interpretation
of guides for the NRIS-Air system.
Factor 4: Complexity:
This work involves developing, implementing and maintaining
an effective air resource management program for the Bridger-Teton
National Forest. To accomplish this task, extensive coordination
with Federal, State, county and tribal agencies must be accomplished.
This area is complex geographically and politically, and the
air quality program requires extensive coordination across
two National Forests in two different regions, three states,
two national parks which are Class I air sheds protected from
degradation, six USFS - managed Class air sheds, nine wilderness
areas, two BLM districts, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.
This effective program protects the National Forest from anthropogenic
pollution sources both in and outside the Forest. Forest,
Wilderness, and Resource management plans are written to incorporate
the necessities of this program. This requires departing from
past approaches as necessary and modifying or developing new
ones to achieve the objective of attainment and maintenance
of State and National ambient air quality standards and protection
of the air quality related values of the Forest.
NRIS work assignments involve many complex technical and
administrative aspects in the implementation of the Forest
Service corporate database within the Intermountain Region.
Decisions regarding what needs to be done include major areas
of uncertainty in approach, methodology, or interpretation
and evaluation processes that result from such elements as
continuing changes in the program, technological developments
or conflicting requirements.
The incumbent considers such factors as, Forest workloads
and priorities, hardware system capabilities, National reporting
requirements and priorities, National direction, condition
of existing data for entry, and impacts on Forests of the
data collection and entry effort. Position requires the analysis
of situations that are generally without precedent and therefore
require the definition of issues, problems, and tasks and
development of new concepts and approaches.
The work typically requires in-depth analysis and development
of new and unprecedented approaches to complex problems. The
work is further complicated by the lack of adequate and experienced
help available within the agency. The incumbent serves in
an authoritative capacity as the Regional expert for the NRIS
Air database system. The incumbent must research problems
and develop unique solutions without benefit of assistance.
Factor 5: Scope and Effect:
The incumbent provides technical support to the Forest Supervisor
on Air Resource Management issues and directs the Air Resource
Management program on the Forests. The incumbent serves as
a link between the Regional offices and the Forests in transferring
technology and information. The incumbent determines the relationships
between planning and management decisions and air quality
and information from scientific study. Actions in response
to proposed pollution sources may be nationally precedent
setting.
Regarding the NRIS related work, the purpose of the position
is to provide leadership and direction to Regional Office
Staffs and Forests in the implementation and management of
the Forest Service corporate database with prime concern for
data accuracy, accountability, and reporting. The work contributes
to the integrated corporate database project, efficiency,
and financial health of the agency.
Accomplishment of the work improves data management and
the proficiency and accuracy of work of computer users throughout
the Forest Service. The result of the improved efficiency
of users and systems allows for rapid, accurate response to
requests for information by management, Congress, and the
public.
Factor 6: Personal Contacts:
Contacts are with natural resource professionals, industry
representatives and contractors, and agency administrators
both inside and outside the Forest Service. Forest Service
contacts include Regional staff, National air program leaders,
Forest and district staff, field technicians in monitoring
program, other air quality managers and specialists, and research
scientists and technicians. Agency contacts outside the Forest
Service include managers and technical experts in the Bureau
of Land Management, National Park Service, Environmental Protection
Agency, Department of Energy, Wyoming Department of Environmental
Quality, and the Wind River Tribal Council. Frequent additional
contacts include researchers and technical experts in air
quality, as well as, industry representatives and special
interest groups.
NRIS related contacts are with Forest Supervisors and their
staffs, Washington Office Staff directors, and group leaders,
Regional Office Directors and staff, National and Regional
Air Program Managers, NRIS Development staffs, computer specialists,
and vendors with whom contracts exist.
Communicates and establishes rapport and working relationships
with a wide range of individuals including Forest Supervisors,
Regional Office Staff Directors, Forest Air Quality Data Stewards.
Establishes and maintains contacts with individuals who have
similar program responsibilities in Universities, EPA, BLM,
and State Departments of Natural Resources and/or Conservation.
Factor 7: Purpose of contacts:
Contacts within the Forest service are primarily to discuss
proposed projects and activities and to resolve differences,
that are often controversial. In addition, contacts serve
to provide technical assistance, to ensure that technical
standards are being met, to fulfill administrative duties
such as budgeting, contracting, and program planning, to supervise
field monitoring personnel and to oversee air quality monitoring
program. Contacts also serve to provide training, information,
and to recommend courses of action. Contacts with other agencies
are to obtain and share information or to influence or negotiate
on permitting decisions that affects resources and Forest
Service programs.
For NRIS related work, contacts are for the purpose of providing
advice, coordination, leadership, and direction. Contacts
often involve influencing and motivating skeptical and unreceptive
audiences to change both their thought processes and work
procedures. Contacts also require the development and acceptance
of compromise solutions to resolve controversial issues.
Factor 8: Physical Demands:
The work is primarily sedentary. Travel is required to attend
meetings, conferences, and to coordinate work with other units.
The physical demands are varied and, when overseeing and participating
in field operations, often severe. Sample collection occurs
at high elevations in all seasons, requiring extended exposure
to harsh and unpredictable weather, winter camping, ski mountaineering
with a heavy backpack (up, to 90 lbs) and pulling a sled,
snow shoeing, accessing trailheads using snowmobiles and 4
wheel drive vehicles, lifting heavy loads, extended hiking
over rough terrain with heavy packs, wading and standing in
streams, rafting and float-tubing in high elevation lakes.
Packing stock including horses and llamas requires physical
strength and dexterity.
Factor 9: Work Environment:
Work will be performed in field, office, and the laboratory.
Field work includes exposure to severe weather at high elevations
in all seasons and occasional hazards such as cold-water immersion,
avalanches, falls, insect bites, steep, slippery slopes, and
pack animals.
The nature of the position will involve many very stressful
situations and may require periods of non-traditional work
hours/days in order to meet specific implementation and/or
reporting requirements.
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