FWC Job Announcement

Working Title: EDUCATION SPECIALIST - FWC Broadband/Class Code: 25-3099-03 Position Number: 77000617-51254364 Annual Salary Range: $40,000 + benefits Announcement Type: Open Competitive City: LAKELAND Facility: LAKELAND FWCC HEADQUARTERS Pay Grade/ Pay Band: BB007 Closing Date: 8/2/2015

OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY: EDUCATION, TRAINING AND LIBRARY

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: EDUCATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS

OCCUPATION: TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS, ALL OTHER 25-3099

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Working Title: Hunter Safety Regional Coordinator

 

Annual Salary: $40,000

Broadband/Class Level: Educational Specialist – FWC

Announcement Type: Open competitive

Broadband/Class Code: 25-2099-03

Position Number: 77000617

County: Polk/53

Location: Lakeland

 

This is a vacancy to be filled by an outgoing, self-motivated individual to serve as the southwest regional hunter safety coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Hunter Safety and Public Shooting Range Section.

Duties and Responsibilities

This is a managerial position encompassing strategic planning, development and coordination of volunteer resource activities for the hunter safety program. Tasks include:

Provides oversight of Florida’s Hunter Safety Program in the southwest region:

• Responsible for the implementation and administration of the hunter safety program within the assigned region;
• Recruits, trains, supervises and provides support to the volunteer instructors teaching Florida’s Hunter Safety Course;
• Oversees an on-going analysis and monitoring system to ensure goals and objectives for course offerings and qualified volunteers are being met at every county in the assigned region;
• Ensures that the course is taught in accordance with the prescribed outline in the instructor’s manual and operating under the guidelines established in the policy and procedures manual;
• Maintains a liaison with instructors to provide incentive and assistance with training programs, training problems, and for the purpose of evaluating achievements and effectiveness of the training program;
• Responsible for overseeing the proper maintenance and accurate accounting of all inventory assigned to the assigned region;
• Certifies and issues completion cards to the students who successfully complete the Hunter Safety Course;
• Assist in compiling investigations of all hunting-related incidents within the assigned region for purpose of reporting, developing and evaluating data for the prevention of future accidents;
• Properly records all student training and volunteer instructor activity for the region in the agency’s record keeping system and forwards to the office of the state coordinator all essential training records and reports necessary for instructor and student certification.

Promotes and provides additional hunter safety training activities:

• Assist with the planning, administration and implementation of the National Archery in the Schools Program, Youth Hunting Program of Florida, Youth Hunter Education Challenge and the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program;
• Maintains progressive liaison with citizen groups, school organizations and news media for implementation and promotion of hunter safety and firearms safety training activities;
• Provides information relative to wildlife conservation, hunting and firearm laws to the general public;
• Provides technical assistance related to firearms qualifications and safe and proper use of firearms and shooting ranges to city, county and state governmental agencies.

Assists in supervision of Commission managed shooting ranges:

• Assists in overseeing compliance with Florida Department Environmental Protection’s best management practices for shooting ranges for all FWC managed facilities within the assigned region;
• Works closely with local government entities develop long-lasting partnerships to serve the needs of the FWC’s hunter safety program and provide the public with a safe place to shoot;
• Assists in training of all Chief Range Safety officers;
• Establish financial controls to monitor inventory, sales and accurate and timely deposits;
• Develop performance measures and monitor results for the statewide range management program.

Creates and maintains a high performance environment:

• Defines goals and/or required results at beginning of performance period and gains acceptance of ideas by creating a shared vision;
• Communicates regularly with volunteers on progress toward defined goals and/or required results, providing specific feedback and initiating corrective action when defined goals and/or required results are not met;
• Confers regularly with volunteers to review relations climate, specific problem areas and actions necessary for improvement;
• Evaluates volunteers on scheduled intervals; obtains and considers all relevant information in evaluations and supports volunteers by giving praise and constructive criticism;
• Recognizes contributions and celebrates accomplishments;
• Motivates volunteers to improve quantity and quality of work performed and provides training and development opportunities as appropriate.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

• Leading a large corps of volunteers in a productive mode
• Coordinating the scheduling of hunter safety courses for the region
• Recruiting and training volunteers to deliver hunter safety programs
• Developing and maintaining partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
• Communicating with volunteers to be sure they have all the supplies and training needed to deliver a successful program
• Tracking the success of the program by providing accurate and timely data and reports
• Must have good knowledge of hunter education program; firearms, firearm safety and hunting methods; training theory and instructional design and program management.
• Must have some knowledge of hunting, and shooting laws and regulations; range safety operations; supervision; grant management and marketing principles.
• Must have the ability to evaluate training and instructional materials; present hunting related training in structured learning situations; write reports; develop procedures and monitor a program budget
• Must have the ability to create, organize and conduct presentations, seminars and promotional events.
• Must be computer literate in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other related software.
• Must be able to deliver presentations to large groups of people and lead training workshops.
• Must have the ability to manage a large corps of volunteers to stay on task, meet goals and keep morale high.
• Ability to develop realistic goals, and to develop measures to stay on track.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to properly tow a trailer and to lift up to 50 pounds.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTITUDES

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree, in education, business or a natural or social science with above-average experience of hunting and shooting sports. Will consider five years’ experience with Florida’s Hunter Safety program and five years’ experience with FWC/State Government commensurate to a Bachelor’s degree.

 

Broadband code: 25-3099-03

Class code: 1370

Region: 01

Title: Education Specialist FWC

County: Bay

Working hours: 40 hours a week (many weekends)

List of any subordinates supervised: Staff Assistant

Residency requirement: Employee is assigned to the Lakeland regional office. They should live within commuting distance from this facility.

Level of Education: B.A./ B.S.

 

TO APPLY

An application must be submitted through the People First web site (https://jobs.myflorida.com/joblist.html) to be considered. If you experience difficulty, please contact a People First staffing representative at 1-877-562-7287.

 

Applicants selected for interview will be expected to submit a letter of introduction, resume and writing sample. Notification will be made to those individuals following the closing date.

 

Certain veterans and spouses of veterans receive preference in employment by the state as provided by Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, and are encouraged to apply.

 

Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, applicants eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment and are encouraged to apply. However, applicants claiming Veterans' Preference must attach supporting documentation with each application submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. All documentation is due by the closing date of the vacancy announcement. For information on the supporting documentation required, click here. Applicants may fax their supporting documentation to People First at 1-888-403-2110.

 

FWC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Employer. If you require an accommodation to participate in the application / selection process, please contact the hiring authority in advance.

 

The State Florida hires only U.S. citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers. If a conditional offer of employment is made, you will be required to provide identification and proof of citizenship and or authorization to work in the United States for the hiring authority to which applications is made. E-Verify will be used to confirm work authorization.

 

The State of Florida supports a drug-free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S.