Responsibilities

• Provides administrative supervision to a group of highly skilled subordinate fire program managers and specialists. Plans work to be accomplished, set and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedule for completion of work.
• Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff members.
• Assists the Forest Fire Management Officer (FFMO) in directing a fire management program with a high complexity level. Develops new techniques and methods or modifies existing procedures to solve unprecedented or critical fire management problems.
• Is responsible for coordinating the accomplishments of the unit’s fire management activities, program direction, coordination and evaluation of the fire management program.
• Assists in providing leadership, coordination and direction in the formulation of standards, methods, and guides for all fire and aviation management program elements on the unit.
• Coordinates the development of the unit’s annual fire management budget to assure balance in organization at varying levels of funding and recommends changes to the FFMO as appropriate.
• Evaluates and analyzes need for fire facilities and equipment and recommends allocation of funding to meet needs. Uses regional guideline to ensure unit staffing levels (FFPC) are met and requests additional funds if shortfalls are expected.
• May serve as the Contracting Officers Representative (COR) on fire and aviation contracts for the forest. Coordinates the preparation of contract specifications for suppression and personnel contracts for the forest.
• Coordinates the involvement of fire management input into the development of land management plans and analyses. Accepts input from resource specialists in related fields and refines or develops more specific guidelines.
• Assists in coordinating complex operations with cooperating agencies on serious incidents and all phases of the fire and aviation management planning on the Unit.
• Responsible for the review of planned suppression actions, tactical plans, and strategies for the management of complex wildland fires and other wildland urban interface/intermix situations.
• Negotiates complicated cooperative suppression agreements and resolves difficult and controversial public relations problems. Develops and recommends alternative fire suppression strategies by taking into consideration total values at risk and cost.
• Coordinates suppression action on large, complex wildland fires. Provides advice and counsel to Line Officers on the development of strategies and appropriate course of actions for all incidents consistent with direction in the Forest Plan.
• Responsible for coordinating complex operations with cooperating agencies on large fires with great potential for damage to resources and improvements and high risk to human safety. Serves as Duty Officer/POC for the unit during periods of fire.
• Provides leadership and program oversight of the unit’s Fire Prevention Program and integration with other fire management activities. Ensures that the fire prevention program is effective and meets short-term objectives and long-term goals.
• Provides program oversight to the unit or interagency Dispatch Center. Coordinates with interagency partners to develop integrated pre-planned responses to local wildland and all-risk incidents.
• Coordinates the use of fire and aviation management personnel and funding to accomplish the unit’s annual targets in fuels and vegetation management, such as, but not limited to, prescribed fire or mechanical fuels treatments.
• Coordinates and provides technology transfer of new and current research data to Forest programs. Duties listed are at the full performance level.

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