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State Director

  • Department of the Interior
  • Jul 26, 2021
Full time Executive

Job Description

The Department of the Interior is seeking qualified candidates for the Senior Executive Position (SES) of State Director in multiple locations:

New Mexico State Director with a duty station of Santa Fe, NM
Wyoming State Director with a duty station of Cheyenne, WY
Idaho State Director with a duty station of Boise, ID

The State Director will be responsible for administering a broad and complex program of balanced land protection, utilization and development, both surface and subsurface. Additionally, the State Directors have the mineral leasing responsibility for those lands where the surface is managed by other Federal agencies, and the responsibility for all cadastral survey work in the state(s) administered.

In addition to:

  1. Serves as the direct, on-site extension of the Director, BLM, in the accomplishment of his/her broad management responsibilities.
  2. Establishes state-wide program goals and priorities designed to meet the economic and social demand placed on the natural resources consistent with prudent conservation and protection concerns.
  3. Provides executive leadership and direction for all Bureau actions within the state(s) compatible with the Bureau, Departmental and Administration objectives and policy.
  4. Serves as focal point and principal spokesperson for the Bureau at the State Office level.
  5. Advocates and leads the BLM State Program commitment to automation by supporting and implementing the Bureau’s Automation/Modernization/Information Resources Management initiatives.
  6. Resolves exceptionally difficult or sensitive managerial and/or operational problems on a continuing basis, consulting with the Director and his/her staff on problems of Bureau-wide policy matters.
  7. Develops, correlates, and executes resource management, technical support and administrative management programs within the State Office jurisdiction consistent with the parameters of broad national policies and delegations of authority from the Bureau Director.
  8. Supervises directly or indirectly a large workforce in the accomplishment of BLM’s mission.

If you are interested in the position, please visit:  https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/608540200

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About Department of the Interior

What We Do

The Department of the Interior plays a central role in how the United States stewards its public lands, increases environmental protections, pursues environmental justice, and honors our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes. 

Our Priorities

Our mandate from President Biden is clear: we must address the four intersecting challenges of COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. Read our priorities to learn how we will meet the scope of our challenges and the multiple, overlapping crises.

Vision

The Department of the Interior strives to fulfill a vision to:

  • Promote energy security and critical minerals development to create jobs for Americans, insulate our nation from volatile political developments overseas, provide additional energy security to allies via surplus domestic supply, and generate revenue for all levels of government so they in turn have the resources to better serve the American people.
  • Increase access to outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans so that our people can be healthier, more fully enjoy the wonderful features of their federal lands, and take advantage of hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation pursuits that are the roots of the conservation movement.
  • Enhance conservation stewardship whereby all levels of government and private landowners work cooperatively together in an atmosphere of mutual respect to achieve shared natural resource management goals across landscapes.
  • Improve management of species and their habitats by focusing our financial and staff resources on improving the status of our nation’s fish and wildlife and the healthy habitats that support them, and by streamlining bureaucracy to help us spend relatively more of our funding productively on the ground to better meet societal needs and our own natural resource management responsibilities.
  • Uphold trust and related responsibilities, recognizing the importance of government-to-government relationships with Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and insular areas, and respecting self-determination and sovereignty
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