WA-Hunt Check Attendant at Umatilla NWR

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking a contractor to provide hunt check attendant services at the Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The attendant will be responsible for selling duck stamps, season passes, and daily fees, as well as ensuring that correct lottery winners are present and accounted for during the blind selection process. The attendant will also be required to work a schedule that includes Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and some holidays. The key responsibilities of the hunt check attendant include: • Working a schedule of Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s Day, with days off on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and other Federal holidays. • On non-hunt days, compiling and providing necessary reporting on all hunt statistics for the Refuge website, updating the hunter hotline, answering calls, keeping the hunt area maintained, reconciling all fees with the headquarters in Burbank, and providing support to the refuge staff as needed. • Working at the Hunter Check Station from an hour and a half before legal hunting hours until 8:00 am and again from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on hunting days. • Being responsible for summarizing the data collected on hunt permits into a database. • Traveling to McNary National Wildlife Refuge each Monday to deliver reports, receipts, and reconcile accounts with refuge staff, and requesting and picking up any needed hunting pamphlets or supplies while at McNary NWR. • Completing post-season reports and cleaning up. The contractor must live within a 25-mile radius of the refuge, have a thorough knowledge and understanding of refuge and state hunting regulations, be able to handle themselves in difficult situations, and have excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.