RFQ Reimagining NPS Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Examine public records and compile a summary of significant policy, funding, and staffing alterations from 2016 to 2026.

• Investigate NPS staffing, congressional funding, deferred maintenance of parks, visitation patterns, conservation of natural and cultural resources, park accessibility, and landscape conservation efforts beyond park limits.

• Execute confidential interviews utilizing research methodologies that safeguard identities and information.

• Perform on-the-record interviews with NPCA staff, retired federal agency personnel, academics, representatives from partner and conservation organizations, community representatives, and other external stakeholders.

• Create interview protocols and engage interviewees in partnership with NPCA and its collaborators.

• Work with a separately contracted Indigenous-led firm that is conducting a concurrent tribal analysis.

• Analyze results and draft a comprehensive internal report as well as a more concise public-facing version.

• Share findings with NPCA volunteers, staff, and board members.

• Deliver preliminary findings by April 1, 2027, and the final report by June 4, 2027.

• Inform NPCA’s advocacy strategy regarding the future of national parks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ethical standards for conducting research that involves interviews.

• Previous experience in qualitative research with groups for whom confidentiality was crucial for participation.

• Quantitative skills related to complex transformations in federal agency budgets, staffing, funding, and policies.

• Secure data storage based in the US, along with documented procedures for data handling and retention.

• Background in research related to the public sector or federal workforce.

• Experience conducting on-the-record interviews with organizational and community representatives.

• Willingness to collaborate with a separately contracted tribal engagement partner, whom the respondent does not direct, throughout the project.

• A capability statement not exceeding five pages.

• Organizational background and, if applicable, research board review details.

• Documentation from at least two comparable engagements.

• Identification of personnel with brief biographies.

• Overview of data security and record retention practices.

• Three references including contact details.

• General rate structure or budget ranges from prior similar projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract opportunity.

• Fully remote work arrangement.