2006.147
Job
Description
Position
Title: Forestry
Manager
Departmental
Supervisor: Natural
Resources Director
Class: Professional
Administrative/Exempt
Plans and executes programs for development, management, and protection of
30,000 acres of tribal and allotted timbered lands.
Supervises a staff of professionals and technicians to carry out the duties involved with cutting the annual timber harvest, contract compliance, sale administration, and forest development activities.
Incumbent is responsible for administrative, financial and personnel management for the Tribal Forestry staff as well as on-the-job training and formal training.
Responsible for surveys, studies and all phases of forest inventories to obtain growth, mortality and form class to reflect silvicultural development and trends for proper management of forest lands.
Oversees the preparation of environmental assessments, timber sale preparation, and timber sale contracts while maintaining sound forest management principles, and adhering to Environmental Protection Agency requirements.
The incumbent, in cooperation
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, works with Idaho State Department of Public
Lands on the protection agreements for prevention and suppression of forest
fires on
Responsible for identifying and evaluating insect and disease condition, and advising the Tribal Council on necessary control measures.
Responsible for P.L. 93-638
intensive forest development programs on the
Responsible for boundary and line survey activities and obtaining access or rights-of-way over private property to the scattered tribal and allotted timbered acreages.
Plans and operates the budget from various funding allocations. Prepares budget requests, justification and scope of work for banded funds, add-on forestry funds and from administrative fees accrued.
Responsible for accurate financial records of all receipts generated from forests products sales. Assures sales of all values are collected and disbursed properly.
Responsible for the adherence and enforcement of tribal policy and procedures and federal regulations.
Responsible for the development of annual and quarterly reports covering all activities of the tribal forestry department.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required by
the Position
Knowledge of management, budgeting,
personnel, public relations and contracting procedures involved in forestry.
Considerable knowledge of the broad
range of biological, social and economic factors influencing the forest areas
and the resource activities involved. Uses judgment and skill in applying
decisions on these activities.
Knowledge of multiple use
relationship of the forest and ability to interpret from guidelines and
instruction to deal with complex and varying situations.
Considerable knowledge of a wide
range of standard professional methods, techniques and precedents with the
ability to evaluate and judge the proper action and silvicultural methods or
actions to be applied.
Supervisory Control
Position function under the general
supervision of the Natural Resource Director who issues instructions on
difficult and unusual assignments and reviews work for conformance to
instructions and procedure as well as occasional spot-check of work at the job.
Requires independent judgment and action on the majority of work conducted.
Minimum Qualifications
·
A Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management or a
closely related field.
·
Must have a minimum of ten years in Natural Resource
Management.
·
Five years of this experience requires the ability to
provide direction in meeting management goals, development of budgets and
fiscal responsibility along with the development and supervision of human
resources.
·
Must have a valid Driver’s License
·
Must not have been convicted of a crime involving
dishonesty in the last five years
Guidelines
Guidelines consist of the
Complexity
The incumbent performs diversified
professional duties making frequent interpretation and adaptation of management
guidelines and scientific methods and practices to carry out duties 8in the
resource fields, including range management, wildlife management, and insect
and disease control as well as soil and water conservation and range and forest
fire control.
Scope and Effect
The incumbent’s work and decisions
are vital to the
Personal Contacts
Interagency contacts are the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Idaho
State Department of Public Lands and U.S. Soil Conservation Service. In
addition to meeting with the tribal council and various sub-committees,
numerous loggers, and lumber companies are contacted during the many forest
management and timber sale programs.
Purpose of Contacts
Tribal governing bodies are contacted
for directions and guidance on timber sale and forest management activities.
Interagency personal contacts are to provide and obtain information for timber
sale appraisals, slash compliance, line and boundary information, scaling of
logs, erosion control fire management. Ranchers, farmers and lumber companies
are contacted for rights-of-way, fencing problems and grazing lease
arrangements on timber sale areas.
Work Environment
Approximately
90% of the work s preformed in an office setting with the remainder in the
field. Work involves processing paperwork, administrative duties, working with
computers, outdoor work involving considerable walking and driving under
various working conditions.
An applicant may be asked to participate in an interview
to establish whether he/she meets minimum qualifications. Interviews do not create a right to
employment and provide no promise or other guarantee of any employment position
with the Tribe.
The
Applicants are subject to a
pre-employment drug test and at-random testing following employment.
Positions with the
To apply, submit an application,
resume, and answers to the KSA questions to: Human Resources Department,