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Open: April 8, 2026 — Closes: April 22, 2026
Summary
This position is located in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, in the Visitor and Resource Protection Division.
Major Duties
This position is located within Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a National Park Service Unit in the Pacific West Region. Golden Gate National Recreation Area spans over 82,000 acres in the California counties of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo with an annual visitation of over 19,000,000 visitors. Golden Gate NRA has exclusive, concurrent, and proprietary jurisdiction that can be extremely remote or within a densely populated urban environment. The primary duty of this position is supervising two shifts of law enforcement officers. The incumbent and their staff respond to a wide variety of law enforcement calls for service and self-initiated enforcement activity. It is not uncommon to conduct multiple felony investigations each day, often involving drugs, weapons, or victims of crime. Other emergency incidents include search and rescue, providing emergency medical care, and responding to motor vehicle collisions. The incumbent will work closely with local law enforcement, Fire/EMS and SAR agencies on a variety of incidents. The incumbent will respond and supervise security for wildland and urban fires. The incumbent will work with resource management on projects and investigations as needed in both terrestrial and marine environments. Golden Gate is a field training park. The incumbent will supervise two subordinate supervisors who each supervise one of four shifts. There are a day and night shift Sunday through Wednesday, and a day and night shift Wednesday through Saturday. The work schedule is four (4) ten-hour shifts and may work nights, holidays, and weekends. Shift start and end times do not change throughout the year. The incumbent will supervise two subordinate supervisors who each supervise approximately six law enforcement officers. Duties Performed: Law Enforcement - The incumbent supervises, plans and conducts investigations related to alleged or suspected violations of criminal laws, and supervises and trains staff in the investigative techniques and knowledge of laws of evidence, the rules of criminal procedure, and precedent court decisions concerning admissibility of evidence, constitutional rights, search and seizure, and related issues. Supervision - The incumbent of this position gives work assignments, monitors, and reviews the same for accuracy, quality and effectiveness, reviews and approves incident reports, scheduling and leave approval, time, and attendance, maintains law enforcement records, and provides performance evaluations for employees under the incumbent's supervision. Administration - The incumbent will oversee a major law enforcement program other than patrol including firearms, physical evidence, fleet vehicles, or patrol and training equipment. These programs have legal and policy requirements for inventory, training, and procurement. Criminal Law - Assists and participates in criminal investigations within the park and with other state, local, and federal law enforcement partners by performing detection, investigation, apprehension/arrest. Criminal investigations may lead to execution of search or arrest warrants in outside agency's jurisdictions. Management - The incumbent of this position gives work assignments, monitors, and reviews the same for accuracy, quality and effectiveness, reviews and approves incident reports, scheduling and leave approval, time, and attendance, maintains law enforcement records, and provides performance evaluations for employees under the incumbent's supervision. Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
