Total 83 job vacancies by Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Provides Leadership and Direction: As the leading Federal/BIA representative to the CITT, provides leadership and direction in accomplishing various major and complex multimillion dollar water resources development related engineering design and construction activities authorized by Federal Indian Water Rights Settlement Acts.
• Provides Technical Guidance, Oversight and Review: Provides guidance, oversight, and overall review of technical work products based on a strong technical knowledge and experience in the design and construction of municipal, rural, and industrial water systems; rehabilitation and improvement of irrigation and dam projects, as well as other water supply/water resources projects including fisheries, hydropower generation and transmission.
• Program Management Oversight and Guidance: As a senior advisor to the Division Chief, provides high-level oversight and guidance on DWP program areas of dam safety, irrigation, power, water rights, and water resources, as well as providing input on program activities regarding the operations, maintenance, rehabilitation, engineering, design, and construction of irrigation, dam, and power facilities.

• Serves as an advocate in assisting the Tribes and Tribal members with respect to the utilization of their real property holdings.
• Analyze request for use of Indian-owned trust assets and resolves any lease-related problems with owners or leases/agreements.
• Consult beneficiaries, lessees, land owners and other interested parties about the contracting process, options and other needs and documentation.
• Prepares or oversees the preparation and publishing of an advertisement for lease/contract.
• Identify lands available for lease from expiring leases or through review of idle lands reports.
• Analyze the transaction, including the application, land description, appraisal, NEPA, TSR, and other clearances, to ensure compliance with statutory authority, laws, regulations, tribal ordinances, policies and procedures.
• Makes recommendations for contract approval or disapproval.
• Completes approvals, disapprovals, and awards, and notifies beneficiaries and other interested parties of the decision.
• Determines ownership to authorize distribution of funds.
• Ensures that all parties are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the contract.
• Performs on-site inspections for compliance; recommends corrective action or changes needed.
• Tracks and evaluates compliance issues and corrective actions; and takes appropriate corrective action in response to violations.

• Serves as a registered apprentice in a developmental capacity as a wildland firefighter trainee serving on one or more of the following module types: engine, hand crew (suppression, fuels or wildland fire module), or helitack.
• Performs all aspects of wildland and prescribed fire operations such as, line construction, ignition device (e.g. fuses, drip torches, flares, and terra torch) use, patrolling fie line and the use of water and hand tools to perform mop-up.
• Will fight wildland fires in extreme heat conditions and austere environments for an extended period of time, which will include sleeping in an outdoor environment (fire camp or near fireline).
• Starts pump engine, primes pump, adjusts engine speed and pump valves, lays hose, and uses appropriate nozzles and nozzle adjustment in effective use of water and additives.
• Services and makes minor repairs to engine; inspects, checks and services accessories such as pump, water lines, tank, reels, or pump power plant; and keeps in fire readiness.
• Inspects, cleans, and stows hose. Makes emergency repairs and adjustments of pump while in use. Performs line construction and mop-up activities.
• Will complete all necessary training requirements and maintain physical fitness requirements to advance within, and graduate from the apprenticeship program.
• The apprenticeship training assignments include: fire suppression and leadership courses, as well as attending the basic or advanced Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program.

• Responsible for a trust real estate services program to accomplish the timely and efficient processing of applications for patents, removal of restrictions, disposals, acquisitions, rights-of-way, surface and subsurface leasing and permitting.
• Continually analyzes and evaluates the overall effectiveness of the entire program, initiating action necessary for more efficient operation.
• Reviews progress of realty programs to make recommendations as necessary to meet operational requirements and establish priorities; i.e., GPRA, ABC, A-123.
• Directly supervises the work of Regional realty staff; plans and carries out training and development; evaluates work performance; and recommends selections, promotions, status changes, awards, disciplinary actions, and separations.

• Serves as an experienced leader within a wildland fire module or crew executing fire management activities in fire preparedness, fuels management and prevention, and fire suppression, monitoring, and post-fire.
• Applies an understanding of firefighter safety, fire behavior, topography of the area, weather, fuels, and training in fire management.
• Plans action and directs utilization of fire line resources.
• Directs assigned suppression operations and recommends and implements tactical strategies on fires.
• Manages fuels projects such as: prescribed fire, mechanical and biological treatments, inventorying fuel beds, and piling vegetation debris.
• Gathers information on weather data, topography, fuel types, and fire behavior in responding to wildland fire incidents.
• Directs the operation and use of special tools and equipment; and ensures proper equipment and supplies needed for fire assignments.
• Directs the work of a small crew of firefighters in building firelines, burnout, mopping up, and patrolling firelines.
• Performs administrative lead duties such as: timekeeping, travel, government credit card managements, maintaining records, and training firefighters.

This position is located with the Office of Justice Services, District 3 -Truxton Canon Agency in Peach Springs, Arizona. The incumbent contributes to this mission by performing assigned job responsibilities in a manner consistent with total quality management principles that promote peak performance and services delivery to our client Indian population. This position serves in a Law Enforcement Communications Center that provide the following services:

• Provide full services 24-hours/day, seven days a week.
• Maintain full on-site access (query and input) to NCIC/NLETS criminal history repositories.
• Is a public emergency answering point for an Agency area with full emergency response responsibility.
• Provide Emergency Medical Dispatching (EMD) by personnel certified by a nationally recognized entity.
• Serve multiple jurisdictions and/or agencies.

• Program Administration, Planning and Coordination: Incumbent provides leadership and senior level expertise to Branch staff by creating, implementing and leading program and project plans, including setting and tracking of performance metrics, and evaluation. Will lead and work with teams to develop and update strategic plans and accomplish planning goals, including providing guidance, instruction, and motivation to teams. Incumbent will build and strengthen partnerships, especially toward leveraging program resources. Will report to the Branch Chief the status of work to be completed and accomplished. Recommends Bureau-wide policy, standards, and procedures for the response and identification of resilient actions and strategies available to Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages. The incumbent will serve as a Central Office expert on relocation, adaptation, and resilience, leading robust teams serving Tribes, including integration with the development and implementation of the Branch's Annual Awards Program and the Community Driven Relocation Program.
• Awarding and Budget Support: Provides leadership and overall support for the Branch in the annual awarding process through reviews, processing, and identification of program efficiencies and monitoring of tribal awards. Provides senior level expertise and responds to tribal inquiries of requirements for participating in the Annual Awards Program.
• Training and Technical Support: Maintains current knowledge of developments impacting tribal resilience across BIA Regions, develops (with partners) and coordinates delivery of training opportunities for Tribes, and provides technical support such as tool development and data delivery for climate adaptation and resilience planning.
• Other Duties as Assigned: Leads special assignments at the general direction of the supervisor to support goals and objectives, including responding to reports and recommendations from the Office of Inspector General or the Government Accountability Office. This also includes working through plans and ensuring that the work is completed and that the plan, team, problems, and communications needed to achieve the outcomes are managed.

• Communicate with beneficiaries, lessees, landowners and other interested parties about the process options, documentation, and other needs that may be associated with contracting activities.
• Perform work consisting of technical duties with continuing responsibility for projects, questions, or problems that arise within the realty program.
• Serve as an assistant assuming a wide responsibility of technical duties, i.e., proceeding with advertisement/ publications, verifying data to process applications for contract under immediate supervisor.
• Accept applications for realty associated activity, providing technical assistance and information in response to inquiries to assure regulatory compliance.
• Screen incoming correspondence prepares, and processes replies to routine inquiries and assembles any required supplemental material and submits for signature.
• Provide assistance to Indians who apply for the sale of land, patents in fee, exchanges, partitionments, removal of restrictions, and return to trust status of fee lands.

• • Perform administrative duties and serve as the records control clerk for the Forestry ranger station.
• • Maintain office automation correspondence tracking systems.
• • Provide input and review all correspondence and documents to ensure that position, policies, and direction is accurately stated, and all information is properly coordinated.
• • Receive and process all incoming in-coming and out-going correspondence and data.
• • Responsible for all financial documents such as travel, training, purchase orders, print orders, and supplies.
• • Ensure that incoming mail is properly received and routed, retaining that which can be answered personally by reference to policies, precedents, or knowledge of office practices.
• • Responsible for the preparation of a variety of correspondence and documents, such as letters, requisitions, purchase orders, travel authorizations, and reports.
• • Perform or assist with a variety of assignments involving gathering data, analysis, and development of responses to inquiries.

Duties listed are at the full performance level at the GS-08. If selected at the lower level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to develop in the position.

• The position is demanding because the safety and security of the facility, staff and offender (including the offender care and control) are directly dependent on the officer's skills in the following areas: 1) booking and release procedures; 2) inmate behavior management; 3) leadership; 4) crisis prevention and intervention; 5) inmate health care and medication; 6) demonstration or fairness in all dealings with offenders through policy and procedures; 7) observation and supervision of inmates; 8) service referrals for programs and services; 9) documentation, logs and reports on inmate incident and management; and, 10) Transportation of inmates to court, medical, and other facilities.
• Enforces standard rules and regulations provided in Title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 69 Bureau of Indian Affairs Manual (BIAM), Department of the Interior (DOI), Departmental Manual (OM) 446, governing the operations of the detention facilities and programs, and the confinement, safety, health, and protection of criminal offenders.
• Provides preliminary Interviews for physical and mental health with classification assessments.
• Upon admission provides criminal offenders with an orientation into the facility's rules and operating procedures through the Inmate Handbook.
• Coordinates, and supervises offender services, activities, and programs, (i.e., access to medical care, courts, mail, recreating, library, work programs, religious, food, laundry, and counseling services).
• Observe and supervise offender movement, conduct welfare checks and physical counts of inmates, maintains discipline and prevents the introduction of contraband in the facility and completes proper documentation.
• Instructs offenders in housekeeping, sanitation and in the proper use and care of tools and equipment used in sanitation and in the proper use and care of tools and equipment used in performing unskilled or semi-skilled work Inside or outside of the facility.
• Manages inmate behavior of offenders in need of supervision. This includes utilizing effective verbal interpersonal communication skills and proper documentation. Will make proper referrals to appropriate resources.
• Transports to court, medical and other facilities. Provides close supervision of the offender throughout the transport.
• Implements all safety aspects of facility emergency management plans to include fire and emergency evacuations.
• Provides for vehicle safety and security by providing defined offender supervision, searches, transportation, classification, and counts, along with maintaining fire safety, key control, perimeter security, and compliance with offender rules.
• Ensures that offenders are released from the facility according to established regulations and operational descriptions.
• Completes facility observation on maintenance that is needed by reporting and documenting to the supervisor that a repair is needed.

Duties listed are at the full performance level at the GS-08. If selected at the lower level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to develop in the position.

• The position is demanding because the safety and security of the facility, staff and offender (including the offender care and control) are directly dependent on the officer's skills in the following areas: 1) booking and release procedures; 2) inmate behavior management; 3) leadership; 4) crisis prevention and intervention; 5) inmate health care and medication; 6) demonstration or fairness in all dealings with offenders through policy and procedures; 7) observation and supervision of inmates; 8) service referrals for programs and services; 9) documentation, logs and reports on inmate incident and management; and, 10) Transportation of inmates to court, medical, and other facilities.
• Enforces standard rules and regulations provided in Title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 69 Bureau of Indian Affairs Manual (BIAM), Department of the Interior (DOI), Departmental Manual (OM) 446, governing the operations of the detention facilities and programs, and the confinement, safety, health, and protection of criminal offenders.
• Provides preliminary Interviews for physical and mental health with classification assessments.
• Upon admission provides criminal offenders with an orientation into the facility's rules and operating procedures through the Inmate Handbook.
• Coordinates, and supervises offender services, activities, and programs, (i.e., access to medical care, courts, mail, recreating, library, work programs, religious, food, laundry, and counseling services).
• Observe and supervise offender movement, conduct welfare checks and physical counts of inmates, maintains discipline and prevents the introduction of contraband in the facility and completes proper documentation.
• Instructs offenders in housekeeping, sanitation and in the proper use and care of tools and equipment used in sanitation and in the proper use and care of tools and equipment used in performing unskilled or semi-skilled work Inside or outside of the facility.
• Manages inmate behavior of offenders in need of supervision. This includes utilizing effective verbal interpersonal communication skills and proper documentation. Will make proper referrals to appropriate resources.
• Transports to court, medical and other facilities. Provides close supervision of the offender throughout the transport.
• Implements all safety aspects of facility emergency management plans to include fire and emergency evacuations.
• Provides for vehicle safety and security by providing defined offender supervision, searches, transportation, classification, and counts, along with maintaining fire safety, key control, perimeter security, and compliance with offender rules.
• Ensures that offenders are released from the facility according to established regulations and operational descriptions.
• Completes facility observation on maintenance that is needed by reporting and documenting to the supervisor that a repair is needed.

• Incumbent serves as trained and experienced member of a wildland fire module or hand crew or engine crew executing fire management activities in fire preparedness, fuels management and prevention, and fire suppression, monitoring, and post fire activities.
• Specific specialty areas of work within fire modules or crews include fire engine operation, fire management planning, fuels management, and prevention.
• Work may also include all hazard and emergency response activities.
• Work activities include gathering and considering information on weather data, topography, fuel types, and fire behavior in responding to wildland fire incidents.
• Implements tactical directions on attacking, controlling, or mopping up fires, building or patrolling firelines, cleaning up burned areas within firelines, suppressing spot fires, felling snags or trees, and cutting brush.
• May drive and operate a wildland fire engine, positioning the engine for proper use and operation.
• Conducts tree felling and chainsaw.
• Maintains and/or coordinates and ensures maintenance of equipment and various hand tools such as shovels, Pulaskis, and McLeods, water hose, and backpack pumps.
• May be required to operate light vehicles and 4X4's.

• Serve as an experienced leader exercising supervision and leadership for and executing fire management activities in fire preparedness, fuels management and prevention, and fire suppression, monitoring, and post-fire.
• Provides oversight during initial and extended attack fires, directs fireline activities and tactics of dispersed firefighters, resources, equipment and aircraft.
• Provides technical expertise during helicopter operations; and plans/directs directs helicopter operations to meet fire management or other resource objectives.
• Leads in initial and extended attack/large fires support wildland fire line operations, to include providing aerial and ground fire assessment, development of control strategy and tactics.
• Supervises and participates in direct suppression of fires; and completes fire line briefings, fire size-ups, fire reports, and fire personnel performance evaluations.
• Serve as liaison between the contractor, the local Fire Staff and Contracting Officer's Representative on contract requirements.
• Provides follow-up actions to safely and effectively manage wildland fires.
• Manages inventory and accountable property; positions equipment and personnel for the most efficient response.
• Evaluates equipment and staffing needs; and develops and prioritizes equipment and personnel funding requests.

• *Utilize skills in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, concrete, welding, and painting to inspect, repair and replace fixtures, utilities, and grounds upkeep for related structures.
• *Operate tools and equipment of various trades, including electrical test equipment, lawn care equipment, hand tools, power tools, air compressors, chain saws, compactors, and portable pumps.
• *Operate various equipment, pick-up trucks, forklift, tractor, all-terrain vehicle, and riding lawn mower.
• *Responsible for the proper care and maintenance of equipment used.
• *Perform daily maintenance and does minor repairs on supported facilities.
• *Schedule and report use of materials and equipment utilized on each job.

• Serves as a trained member of a wildland fire module or hand crew or engine crew executing fuels management, fire suppression, monitoring, and post-fire activities.
• Specific specialty areas of work within fire modules or crews include fire engine operation, fire management planning, fuels management, and prevention.
• Work may also include all hazard and emergency response activities.
• May be assigned to carry out specialized assignments such as tree falling, backfire and burnout operations; utilizes a variety of specialized tools, equipment and techniques while actively managing wildfires.
• May be required to operate light vehicles and 4X4s.