Fire Intelligence Dispatcher Technician (Assistant Intelligence Officer)

Quick Facts

• Title: Fire Intelligence Dispatcher Technician (Assistant Intelligence Officer)
• Focus: Fire Intelligence Section dispatch/support for wildland fire response planning and reporting
• Schedule: May require on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and shift work; occasional travel during fire season

Description

You will support the Fire Intelligence Section within a GACC by interpreting fire indices, weather, and occurrence patterns and providing intelligence support to field offices for suppression, preparedness, and prescribed fire activities. You will assist with intelligence planning documents, daily situation report collection and consolidation, and incident situation report preparation. You will also provide user training and oversight for ICS-209, WFDSS, and other reporting programs.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the overall execution of Fire Intelligence Section activities in an Area
• Identify shortages of critical resources and provide information for allocation and priority setting (personnel, aircraft, crews, equipment, supplies)
• Provide assistance and support to the intelligence aspects of wildland fire suppression, preparedness, and prescribed fire activities for field offices
• Assist in developing Intelligence Section planning documents (operating plans, public affairs plans, communications plans, and related sections of the Area Mobilization Guide)
• Collect daily situation reports, consolidate reports, and prepare the GACC incident situation report
• Provide user training and oversight for ICS-209, WFDSS, and other reporting programs

Benefits

• Comprehensive federal benefits package for employees and their families
• Special retirement coverage may apply depending on eligibility (secondary-administrative firefighter under 5 U.S.C. 8336(c) or 5 U.S.C. 8412(d)); otherwise placement may be in the regular retirement system
• Potential recruitment or relocation incentive on a case-by-case basis (not guaranteed)

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or National
• Background investigation with favorable adjudication
• Selective Service registration (for eligible males born after 12/31/1959)
• Direct deposit participation required
• Successful pass of E-Verify employment verification
• Valid driver’s license maintained throughout employment
• Pre-employment and random drug testing required (no verified positive tests)
• Complete required training and obtain/maintain a government credit card with travel and/or purchase authority
• Ability to work shifts/on-call and meet probationary employment certification requirements (if required)
• Mandatory selective placement factor: documented prior primary/rigorous wildland firefighting experience from fireline work (containment/control/suppression/use of wildland fire), with months/days/hours per week clearly demonstrated; meet one of the defined experience options (one full fire season in a primary role or at least 14 days of on-the-ground fireline experience)
• Minimum qualifications (include hours per week worked):
  • GW-08: 1 year specialized experience equivalent to GW-07 in dispatch/resource tracking and Fire Intelligence reporting support, or graduate education (36 semester hours) in related fields, or an education+experience combination (transcripts required)
  • GW-09: 1 year specialized experience equivalent to GW-08 in monitoring/analyzing fire behavior and supporting suppression resource ordering/tracking/evaluation and preparedness readiness/incident priorities, or graduate education (36 semester hours) in related fields, or an education+experience combination (transcripts required)