Fire Management Planning Specialist GS 9-11

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The primary purpose of the position is to provide leadership, coordination, and oversight in wildland fire planning on one or more National Forests or Grasslands.

Duties

• Develops local plans that reflect national, regional, and local management goals, requirements, and strategic objectives related to fire and aviation management
• Implements program management direction for national forests and grasslands and/or interagency fire planning efforts.
• Provides wildland fire planning technical support and coordination with fire management officers, land or resource management staffs, and planners throughout the local area.
• Provides technical expertise in strategic and local fire planning analysis systems, models, and decision support systems.
• Develops annual program of work which may include budget allocations and severity requests.
• May serve on regional/forest/interagency committees responsible for continued development of efficiency based analysis and resource allocation process/procedures.
• Provides guidance to the field units on data collection and evaluation of fire hazard risk, fuels, historic fire occurrence, fire effects, climatology and weather.

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