Description du poste
This position is located in Region 5 on the Lassen National Forest in Susanville, CA and serves as a Timber Resource Specialist administering the business management phases of the Forest-Wide Timber program primarily working with forest product contracting. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Jessica McMullen at jessica.mcmullen@usda.gov. USDA Employees: Please refer to the Next Steps section.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
Responsible for the complete and detailed administrative review of all portions of Forest timber sale packages, including the contract, appraisal, prospectus, and the advertisement for submission of bid forms from interested parties.
Assures that appraisal procedures are followed for all offerings including environmental, catastrophic, damage, and redetermination appraisals. Participates in timber contract oral and sealed bid openings.
Provides technical subject matter expertise, direction, and training to ensure that all business management features of the timber sale contract are adhered to and compliance is satisfactory throughout the life of the sale.
Prepares bills for collection, statements of accounts, and various types of bonding procedures. Upon receipt of signed timber sale contract and performance bond, obtains signature of contracting officer and prepares sale folder.
Incumbent has the responsibility to ensure that the Forest Products Financial Systems (FPFS) is applied in a manner to ensure accuracy and proper procedures.
Primary contact on timber sale accounting issues and routinely works with FPFS and independent computer systems necessary for proper accounting on timber sales, stewardship contracts, and other forest product contracts and permits.
Assists Contracting Officer (CO) and Forest Service Representative (FSR) in developing contract modifications, changes and revisions to legal standards. Reviews contract modifications, correspondence and other documents as requested.
Assists in managing the distribution of NFF (National Forest Foundation), KV (Knutson-Vandenberg) and SSF (Salvage Sale Fund) timber sale trust funds by providing technical assistance to the District Ranger, staff, and Interdisciplinary teams.
Coordinates the assembly of District stand records, field surveys, photos, prescriptions, and other pertinent information for processing. Generates reports for program areas.
Uses ArcGIS with spatial data to generate maps for use in updating and maintaining Forest Service Activity Tracking System (FACTS) activities. Inputs the spatial component required by FACTS into corporate data layers.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUISES :
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-09: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following: Ensured the correction of scale tickets and final corrections to edit files until all entries are valid; Tracked all timber sale financial collections and assured they were processed in databases such as Forest Product Financial System (FPFS), Timber Information Management (TIM), and Financial Management Modernization Initiative (FMMI); Performed work related to the input, output, review, and analysis, posting and adjustments of the accounts; Analyzed timber sale contracts and audited timber sale statements of account to assure documents comply with appraisal, current direction, procedures, laws, and regulations; Assisted in managing timber sale t