Total 14 job vacancies by Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Operates engineering and construction equipment such as bulldozers, angle dozers, motor graders, front-end loaders, backhoes, trench diggers, etc.
• Responsible for carrying out the day to day details of seasonal road maintenance operations.
• Assists mechanics, as required, in the overhaul/repair of equipment.
• Keeps field records on equipment maintenance and operation.

• Develops/reviews and recommends approval complete contracts, grants and cooperative agreements packages to the Approving Official.
• Reviews contracts, grants, cooperative agreement packages for adequacy and compliance with administrative, regulatory, and procedural requirements and consistency with current practices.
• Conducts pre-award/pre-construction conferences with contractors/grantees to clarify requirements and provide the necessary technical assistance to help the tribe or tribal organization in correcting deficiencies in their contract, grant cooperative agreement proposals and agreements.

• Direct, coordinate, and oversee the planning and execution of a wide variety of administrative activities in the following areas: budget and finance, contracting, property, space, and supply, human resources, purchase and procurement, federal records, federal travel and timekeeping/payroll.
• Perform budgetary tasks and oversee financial management matters.
• Oversee property management and procure needed equipment, materials, supplies and services.
• Provides direction and implementing instructions for all Agency associated actions in conjunction with position management, recruitment, training, performance appraisals, grievance procedures, employee recognition program, employee orientations

• Serves as a Squad Leader on a Helicopter Firefighter crew providing leadership and oversight of wildland fire suppression/management/control work on a helitack module.
• Performs and/or oversees initial attack fire suppression activities, locates fireline, directs and participates in fireline construction, backfiring and burnout operations
• Directs helicopter crewmember duties i.e., prepares internal/external cargo loads, briefs passengers, follows procedures for loading/unloading the helicopter, constructs helispots or landing areas, monitors dipsites, and prepares sling load sites.
• Leads aviation mission planning in coordination with pilot to include evaluation of environmental conditions, application of aviation safety plans, and briefing mission objectives.
• Participates in and may direct helicopter operations to include accompanying pilot on flights, providing radio communications to dispatch and/or ground firefighters, navigating with use of maps and applying aviation safety regulations.
• Inventories and inspects helicopter accessories, fire tools, and equipment including aerial ignition devices; and directs the readiness and assembly of helicopter support accessories and helicopter safety equipment.
• Gathers and considers information on weather data, topography, fuel types, and fire behavior in responding to wildland fire incidents.
• Performs administrative responsibilities to include training firefighters; ensuring that work is carried out safely; and timekeeping, travel administration, government credit card management and maintain records.

• Incumbent is a trained wildland firefighter on a helitack crew.
• Assignments may include loading helicopters, determining weight calculations, completing crew manifest and accessing remote areas by helicopter to instruct helispots, or to attack small fires, hot spots, and spot fires.
• 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.

• Providing oversight for management of trust and restricted fee real property ensuring the protection, conservation, and prudent utilization of Indian lands
• Analyzing requests for use of Indian owned trust assets to determine the compatibility of proposed uses with agency mission and owner needs
• Implementing a trust real estate services program to accomplish the timely and efficient processing of various realty transactions, i.e. right-of-way, surface and subsurface leasing and permitting
• Ensuring lease compliance, including accounting for use of trust assets
• Providing responses to trespasses and other unresolved rights cases
• Processing all types of transactions of trust lands

• Directs the operation of a wildland fire engine ensuring the correct positioning, proper use and operation.
• Performs and directs others in starting pump engine, priming pump, adjusting engine speed and pump valves, laying hose and in the operation and maintenance of chainsaws.
• Conducts and participates in crew proficiency checks and drills, safety sessions, and fire critiques.
• Ensures the engine is kept in a full state of readiness for emergency fire dispatch.
• Gathers and considers information on weather data, topography, fuel types, and fire behavior in responding to wildland fire incidents.
• Makes initial evaluation of fire situations; determines suppression methods to use, deployment of module/crew, type of tools to use and application of water.
• Coordinates and provides oversight in the operation and maintenance of specialized equipment used to respond to wildland and prescribed fire situations.
• Plans and assigns work to be accomplished by subordinate positions, sets and adjusts priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work.

• Create, review, and update inter-agency policies and develop and revise operational standards, policies, procedures and guidelines for a BIA-wide detention/correction and rehabilitation program and ensure that the program is compliant with Department and National Corrections and Jail Associations practices and regulations. Implement change to support the mission and goals of the BIA.
• Develop, plan, coordinate and implement a detention/correction and rehabilitation program in Indian Country. Initiate actions for necessary changes that impact the overall operation of the program.
• Provide technical assistance to tribes, BIA and the Department in regards to negotiating and reviewing contractual agreements and will serve as the Contracting Officers Technical Representative (COTR) managing all contract beds in the district, conducting site visits, program reviews, annual reports, preparing budgetary estimates of construction/renovation projects as well as operation and maintenance expenditures, etc.
• Prepare instruction and information for field personnel for the creation and implementation of standards, policies, procedures and post orders. Prepares forms and bulletins to be used in the detention/correction and rehabilitation program. Inspect field programs and facilities to assure maximum coordination between BIA and the Department.
• Maintain an effective liaison with Federal, Tribal, State and local officials in promoting and enhancing cooperation and understanding of the BIA detention/correction programs mission and agenda.

• Advises program managers on regulatory requirements, financial policies, the interpretation of data and the importance of accounting data to program operations and improvements.
• Plans, develops, and coordinates financial management improvements necessary to comply with OMB directives and legislation.
• Analyzes operations, financial systems, periodic and special reports and systems edits to develop information on trends, anomalies, or problems, and develops solutions.
• Develops policy and guidelines for program users and provides authoritative policy interpretations and functional recommendations in the implementation of new legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Prepares external financial management reports, statements, schedules, justifications, and related documentation as required by OMB, Treasury, and or the Department.
• Ensures data consistency and integrity of documentation prepared.
• Analyzes processing flows, integration of external system interfaces and internal subsystem modules, and recommends improvements in control techniques.

• Advises program managers on regulatory requirements, financial policies, the interpretation of data and the importance of accounting data to program operations and improvements.
• Plans, develops, and coordinates financial management improvements necessary to comply with OMB directives and legislation.
• Analyzes operations, financial systems, periodic and special reports and systems edits to develop information on trends, anomalies, or problems, and develops solutions.
• Develops policy and guidelines for program users and provides authoritative policy interpretations and functional recommendations in the implementation of new legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Prepares external financial management reports, statements, schedules, justifications, and related documentation as required by OMB, Treasury, and or the Department.
• Ensures data consistency and integrity of documentation prepared.
• Analyzes processing flows, integration of external system interfaces and internal subsystem modules, and recommends improvements in control techniques.

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.

• Plan, organize and direct a trust Real Estate Services program involving Indian trust lands.
• Negotiate complex leases and other land use documents for residential, agricultural, rights-of-way, acquisition and disposal, and commercial/industrial purposes.
• Provide guidance on environmental compliance issues
• Determine the need for an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement in accordance with National Environmental Policy Act
• Perform the final review of executed leases prior to approval to determine proper execution, legality, and conformance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Supervise employees in the branch.

• Coordinates emergency resources and assists with the overall execution of activities of the Operations Section of the GACC.
• Monitors incident and administrative intelligence to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of dispatch center decisions.
• Conducts workload analysis, allocating resources and prioritizing incidents during periods of fire and non-fire activity and prescribed/planned fires (intra- and inter- geographic).
• Coordinates with federal and state agencies for ordering resources through the national dispatch system to support national emergencies and for providing information regarding the status of fire and non-fire activities.
• Ensures appropriate safety measures are used in mobilization and demobilization of personnel, equipment, supplies and aircraft utilized in incident support.
• Plans work to be accomplished, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.

• Analyze and examines extremely difficult or controversial title cases. Cases related to the rights of Indians to hold or own realty property and life estates.
• Plan, organize, conduct research and analyzes legal documents pertaining to each specific case worked.
• Examine and corrects title documents for the acquisition and disposal of real property rights pertaining to trust, restricted, fee and reserved lands.
• Prepares abstracts of title by examining each legal instrument, determining the correct legal description of property.
• Advise the realty specialists in the preparation of forms of title conveyances and divestment documents, equitable title documents, deeds, leases, grants, property management agreements, stipulations, memoranda of understanding, casements, etc.