Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Four of Sixty-six

    GS-0000 - MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS GROUP   

This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to administer, supervise, or perform work that cannot be included in other occupational groups either because the duties are unique, or because they are complex and come in part under various groups.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Series in this group are:

GS-0006 - Correctional Institution Administration Series**

This series includes positions that involve responsibility for managing, or participating in the overall management of correctional institutions, correctional systems, or correctional programs, and positions that involve responsibility for advising on, reviewing, and evaluating the management of such institutions, systems, or programs. Work in this series requires knowledge of: (1) penological theories, principles, and techniques; and (2) the problems, methods, and techniques of institutional management.

GS-0007 - Correctional Officer Series*

This series covers positions involving the correctional treatment, custody, and supervision of criminal offenders in correctional institutions or community-based correctional treatment or rehabilitation facilities. Positions in this series have as their paramount requirement the knowledge and application of correctional skills and techniques.

GS-0011 - Bond Sales Promotion Series

This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform work involved in promoting and maintaining the sales of United States Savings Bonds and Stamps by originating and developing promotional themes, ideas, and programs, by planning, organizing, and directing the work of committees, groups, and other persons participating in the conduct of bond and stamp drives, programs, and campaigns, and by other means.

GS-0018 - Safety and Occupational Health Management Series*

This series includes positions that involve the management, administration, or operation of a safety and occupational health program or performance of administrative work concerned with safety and occupational health activities and includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of related program functions. The primary objective of this work is the elimination or minimization of human injury and property and productivity losses, caused by harmful contact incidents, through the design of effective management policies, programs, or practices. Safety and occupational health management work requires application of the knowledge of: (1) the principles, standards, and techniques of safety and occupational health management; and (2) pertinent elements of engineering, physical science, ergonomics, psychology, industrial hygiene, physiology, sociology, and other scientific and technological fields, that contribute to the achievement of comprehensive safety and occupational health objectives.

GS-0019 - Safety Technician Series**

This series includes positions that involve support work in accident prevention, including inspecting safety conditions, investigating and compiling data on accidents, and providing information on safety standards and techniques. Positions require a practical knowledge of work processes and equipment, environmental conditions, and established safety standards, protective devices and accident prevention measures.

GS-0020 - Community Planning Series*

This series includes professional positions concerned with community planning and with developing the art and science of planning to apply to communities such as urban or rural neighborhoods, villages, Indian reservations, cities, counties, regions, States, or the nation. Community planning work requires knowledge of planning concepts, principles, techniques, and practices; the social, economic, political, and physical elements involved in human settlements; and the dynamics of change within these elements. Planners identify community needs, resources, and problems and assist citizens to make decisions on goals, policies, priorities, plans, programs, and methods of implementation designed to create a physical, economic, and social environment in which the human activities desired by the members of the community may flourish.

GS-0021 - Community Planning Technician Series

This series includes positions of technicians who apply practical knowledge of community planning methods and techniques. They collect, select, compute, adjust, and process data; prepare charts, exhibits, and reports; and perform related duties supporting professional planning work. The positions require technical rather than professional knowledge and abilities for full performance and, therefore, do not require education and training equivalent in scope and nature to that required for professional positions in community planning.

GS-0023 - Outdoor Recreation Planning Series*

This series includes positions whose primary concerns are planning, advising on, and coordinating the use of land, water and related resources to provide opportunities for the creative use of leisure time outdoors, with due regard to protecting and enhancing the quality of the outdoor environment for the enjoyment of people. The work requires application of knowledge of: (1) pertinent aspects of economics, sociology, and other social sciences in the assessment of demand for outdoor recreation; (2) the practices of natural resource conservation involved in the development and coordination of programs to provide recreation resources; and (3) the techniques of area planning.

GS-0025 - Park Ranger Series*

This series includes positions the duties of which are to supervise, manage, and/or perform work in the conservation and use of Federal park resources. This involves functions such as park conservation; natural, historical, and cultural resource management; and the development and operation of interpretive and recreational programs for the benefit of the visiting public. Duties characteristically include assignments such as: forest and structural fire control; protection of property from natural or visitor related depredation; dissemination to visitors of general, historical, or scientific information; folk-art and craft demonstration; control of traffic and visitor use of facilities; enforcement of laws and regulations; investigation of violations, complaints, trespass/encroachment, and accidents; search and rescue missions; and management activities related to resources such as wildlife, lakeshores, seashores, forests, historic buildings, battlefields, archeological properties, and recreation areas.

GS-0028 - Environmental Protection Specialist Series*

This series includes positions that involve advising on, managing, supervising, or performing administrative or program work relating to environmental protection programs (e.g., programs to protect or improve environmental quality, control pollution, remedy environmental damage, or ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations). These positions require specialized knowledge of the principles and methods of administering environmental protection programs and the laws and regulations related to environmental protection activities.

GS-0029 - Environmental Protection Assistant Series

This series includes positions that involve performing a variety of technical support work in connection with the operation of environmental protection programs. This work may take the form of assisting higher level environmental protection personnel in an area of assignment or it may involve independent performance of limited assignments in a prescribed segment of an environmental protection program. This work requires the ability to apply established instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures relevant to environmental protection activities.

GS-0030 - Sports Specialist Series

This series covers positions that require a knowledge of the physical and psychological factors in individual and team sports, and of the nature, purpose, and organization of recreational or competitive individual and team sports activities. Sports specialists: (1) plan, supervise, administer or carry out sports programs; (2) conduct clinics or seminars to train coaches or officials; (3) train and develop athletes in individual or team sports; (4) plan, organize or conduct tournaments or competitions from the intramural to the international levels; or (5) perform other functions requiring knowledge or skill in sports.

GS-0050 - Funeral Directing Series

This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to supervise or perform work, at a hospital or other station, involved in planning and directing details relating to funeral and burial services of deceased persons, including responsibility for the embalming and preparation of decedents in accordance with policies, procedures, and public health regulations, or to administer or participate in the administration of the mortuary program of a Federal agency.

GS-0060 - Chaplain Series*

This series includes all positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional work involved in a program of spiritual welfare and religious guidance for patients of Government hospitals and homes, for inmates of Government correctional and penal or other institutions, or for persons in other Government activities where civilian chaplain service is needed. Positions are classifiable to this series when the nature of duties and responsibilities is such that ordination by a recognized ecclesiastical body is a basic requirement.

GS-0062 - Clothing Design Series*

This series includes classes of positions that involve nonprofessional technical work in the design, development, testing, standardization, and improvement of clothing (including headgear, footgear, and handgear) for performance, appearance, comfort, and economical production.

GS-0072 - Fingerprint Identification Series*

This series covers positions that involve classifying, searching, verifying, and filing fingerprints and other vestigial prints (such as footprints or palm prints) for identifying persons. The work requires a knowledge of the methods used in fingerprint classification and identification.

GS-0080 - Security Administration Series*

This series includes positions the primary duties of which are analytical, planning, advisory, operational, or evaluative work that has as its principal purpose the development and implementation of policies, procedures, standards, training, and methods for identifying and protecting information, personnel, property, facilities, operations, or material from unauthorized disclosure, misuse, theft, assault, vandalism, espionage, sabotage, or loss. Duties involve the management, supervision, or performance of work in: (1) developing, evaluating, maintaining, and/or operating systems, policies, devices, procedures, and methods used for safeguarding information, property, personnel, operations, and materials; and/or (2) developing and implementing policies and procedures for analyzing and evaluating the character, background, and history of employees, candidates for employment, and other persons having or proposed to be granted access to classified or other sensitive information, materials, or work sites. (Note: This series does not include police work as described in the Police Series, GS-0083.)

GS-0081 - Fire Protection and Prevention Series*

This series covers positions that supervise or perform work to control and extinguish fires, rescue people endangered by fire, and reduce or eliminate potential fire hazards. It also covers fire service positions that control hazardous materials incidents; train personnel in fire protection and prevention; operate fire communications equipment; develop and implement fire protection and prevention plans, procedures, and standards; and advise on improvements to structures for better fire prevention. Positions in this series require a knowledge of firefighting and fire prevention theory and techniques, a knowledge of fixed and mobile firefighting equipment operation; and/or the ability to plan, direct, or carry out fire protection and prevention programs and operations.

GS-0082 - United States Marshal Series*

This series covers positions involving a range of law enforcement responsibilities including serving of civil writs and criminal warrants issued by Federal courts; tracing and arresting people wanted under court warrants; seizing and disposing of property under court orders; safeguarding and transporting prisoners; providing for the physical security of court facilities and personnel; providing for the physical security of jurors and key Government witnesses and their families; preventing civil disturbances or restoring order in riot and mob violence situations; and performing other special law enforcement duties as directed by a court order or by the Department of Justice. These positions require ability in locating and identifying wanted persons or property, knowledge of court procedure, basic knowledge of business records and practices, knowledge of Federal and State laws that deputies must enforce, as well as relevant court decisions, and ability to deal with people from all levels of society.

GS-0083 - Police Series*

This series includes positions the primary duties of which are the performance or supervision of law enforcement work in the preservation of the peace; the prevention, detection, and investigation of crimes; the arrest or apprehension of violators; and the provision of assistance to citizens in emergency situations, including the protection of civil rights. The purpose of police work is to assure compliance with Federal, State, county, and municipal laws and ordinances, and agency rules and regulations pertaining to law enforcement work.

GS-0084 - Nuclear Materials Courier Series*

This series includes positions the duties of which involve performing or supervising the safe and secure transportation of sensitive nuclear materials owned or controlled by the Department of Energy. The work requires knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, methods, techniques, and procedures governing: the operation, control, and protection of vehicles and their cargoes; the use of tactical weapons and arrest authority; emergencies involving health and safety of personnel, vehicles, and nuclear materials; departmental and other Federal, State, and local security authorities; and similar knowledge involving the protection, movement, and delivery of sensitive nuclear materials.

GS-0085 - Security Guard Series*

This series includes positions the primary duties of which are the performance or supervision of protective services work in guarding Federally-owned or leased buildings and property; protecting Government equipment and material; and controlling access to Federal installations by employees, visitors, residents, and patients. The purpose of security guard work is to protect and prevent loss of materials or processes that are important for national defense, for public health or safety, or as national treasures.

GS-0086 - Security Clerical and Assistance Series**

This series includes positions the primary duties of which are to supervise or perform clerical and assistant tasks in support of established security programs (e.g., personnel, physical, information, or industrial security) when such work requires, in addition to general administrative and/or clerical skills, practical knowledge of specific security objectives, programs, methods, and procedures, and skills in carrying out support tasks related to security administration.

GS-0090 - Guide Series*

This series includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to provide or supervise nonprofessional interpretive and guide services to visitors to parks, dams and other sites of public interest. The work involves giving formal talks, interpreting natural and historic features, explaining engineering structures and related water resource developments, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing miscellaneous services to visitors. Incidental duties are performed in connection with responsibility for visitor safety and protection of historic and scientific objects and natural or engineering features.

GS-0095 - Foreign Law Specialist Series**

This series includes positions that perform professional work requiring knowledge of law as it is practiced in one or more foreign countries; library objectives, functions, techniques, and services; and, the political, economic, and social systems of particular foreign countries. Most positions also require the ability to translate and interpret technical legal material from a foreign language into English and from English into a foreign language. Positions in this series perform legal research, reference, and writing assignments requiring expert analysis and interpretation of the legal systems of particular foreign countries in terms of Anglo-American law concepts; provide definitive advice and assistance to the three branches of Government on matters associated with foreign law; and, provide other specialized services in the acquisition, processing, and custody of foreign legal collections.

GS-0099 - General Student Trainee Series

The student trainee series in each Occupational Group includes all trainee positions that involve periods of pertinent formal education and periods of employment in a Federal agency. The education and employment must be part of a formal student employment program. The level of education and experience completed by the student is a major consideration in establishing the level of on-the-job training and work assignments during periods of employment. This series definition applies to the XX99 student trainee series for each Occupational Group. Student trainee positions should be classified to the XX99 series for the appropriate Occupational Group (GS-0099, GS-0199, GS-1599, etc.).

All positions classified to a student trainee series should be titled Student Trainee followed by a parenthetical title consistent with the occupational field involved; for example: Student Trainee (Personnel Management), Student Trainee (Psychology), Student Trainee (Civil Engineering).