Landscape Architect

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/15/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. To qualify, you must possess the following Basic Requirement below of the Landscape Architect 0807 Series by close of this announcement: 1) Degree: Bachelors or higher degree in landscape architecture or landscape design. -OR- 2) Combination of education and experience — for each year short of graduation, the applicant must have had 1 year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education. This experience must have included original landscape design. Experience Equivalent to a Degree in Landscape Architecture: A degree in landscape architecture indicates that an applicant has the basic background to perform professional landscape architectural work at the beginning levels and has the potential to develop the skills and abilities required at the higher levels. Experience may be substituted for education to the extent that it provided the equivalent background. However, because an education provides some knowledge that cannot be measured in terms of course content, but rather is part of general knowledge and cultural background gained as a result of interrelationships among courses, careful judgment must be used in evaluation experience substituted for education as provided for in the basic requirements. In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement as listed above, to qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Examples of specialized experience include: basic research and field experience contributing to the collection of data, drawings, photographs and primary sources for the development of a Cultural Landscape Inventory (CLI) or similar preliminary research document; basic understanding and use of cultural resources preservation legislation, policies, guidelines and/or standards to contribute to planning documents; using industry standard design technology such as AutoCAD, InDesign and Photoshop to prepare map products for inclusion in inventory and research projects. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree directly related to the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of specialized experience and directly related education. To calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education, divide your number of semester hours in excess of 36 semester hours by 18 (or in excess of 45 quarter hours by 27) or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. To calculate your percentage of experience, divide your months of qualifying specialized experience by 12. Add the two percentages. They must equal at least 100% to qualify using this option. You must include transcripts. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
One position is located in Luray, VA. at Shenandoah National Park, in the Maintenance Division. Once position is location in Manassas, VA at Manassas National Battlefield Park in the Division of Superintendent.