Recreation Specialist - Institutional (Recreation Specialist)

Recreion Specialist - Institutional (Recreion Specialist)

Department of Justice

Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System

Summary

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

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Summary

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

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Overview

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Accepting applicions

Open & closing des

04/16/2026 to 05/07/2026

Salary

$69,338 - $89,473 per year

Pay scale & grade

GL 09

Locion

Federal Medical Center Carswell, TX

2 vacancies

Remote job

No

Telework eligible

No

Travel Required

Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues.

Relocion expenses reimbursed

No

Appointment type

Permanent

Work schedule

Full-time

Service

Competitive

Promotion potential

09

Job family (Series)

0188 Recreion Specialist

Supervisory stus

No

Security clearance

Other

Drug test

Yes

Bargaining unit stus

No

Announcement number

CRW-2026-0063

Control number

865486800

This job is open to

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Internal to an agency

Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.

Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.

Clarificion from the agency

BOP Employees nionwide DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area. Duty Locion: FMC Carswell, TX

Duties

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Works under the general direction of the Recreion Supervisor and/or Assistant Supervisor of Recreion. The requirements of the position include knowledge of the goals, principles, methods, and techniques of the broad field of recreion.

Supervises the operion of the recreion and leisure time program. Solicits suggestions from the inme populion, plans and crees recreional activities based upon research, purchases the equipment and supplies needed for such programs, draws up necessary tournament rosters, etc., and assures th approprie recreional activities take place in a timely fashion.

Assist the Recreion Supervisor and the other recreion/sports specialists in planning, organizing, advising on and administering recreion activities and programs which promote the physical, creive and social development for the inme populion.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

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Conditions of employment

U.S. Citizenship is Required

See Special Conditions of Employment Section

Career Transition Programs ( CTAP ): These programs apply to Federal and/or DOJ employees who meet the definition of surplus or displaced from a position in the competitive service. To receive selection priority for this position, you must:

1. Meet CTAP eligibility criteria;

2. Be red well-qualified for the position, scoring least half of the total possible points for the vacancy KSAs or competencies; and

3. Submit the approprie documention to support your CTAP eligibility:

A copy of the agency notice (i.e., separion notice or agency RIF letter),

Most recent performance appraisal, and

Most recent SF-50 showing current/former position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion.

See USAJOBS' Career Transition Programs for more informion.

NOTE: Applicants claiming CTAP eligibility must complete all assessment questions to be red under the established ranking criteria.

EEO Stement/Policy: The United Stes government does not discrimine in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, nional origin, political affiliion, sexual oriention, marital stus, disability, genetic informion, age, membership in an employee organizion, retaliion, parental stus, military service or other non-merit factor. More informion can be found here:

Qualificions

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualificion requirements.

Basic Requirements:

Educion:

Undergradue and Gradue Educion: Major study -- general recreion, or one of the approprie fields of recreion such as outdoor recreion; recreion and parks leadership; wild land recreion management; nural resources recreion; youth recreion; public, urban, or community recreion; special populions recreion (e.g., senior citizens, institutional, etc.); or physical educion.

OR

Experience:

Specialized Experience (for positions above GS-5): Experience th demonstred the ability to apply the principles of one or more specialty areas of recreion. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include:

Planning, organizing, coordining, supervising, or evaluing community, industrial, outdoor, institutional, or other recreional programs.

Planning, establishing, or evaluing a recreional curriculum for junior college or higher academic levels.

Instructing in the principles and techniques of recreional program planning and management.

Serving in a leadership role in the programs and activities of local, regional, and/or nional recreional organizions.

AND

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must have:

Educion:

A Master's or equivalent gradue degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree or LL.B or J.D., if reled.

OR

Experience:

You must have least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualificions to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or reled to the position to be filled.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are:

Experience in developing and implementing recreional activities and arrange for community resources, experience in developing indoor and outdoor activities to meet the needs of an inme populion.

Experience preparing financial requests for new recreional equipment within established guidelines.

Experience speaking in front of large groups or participants to explain recreion and leisure opportunities a facility.

OR

Combinion of Educion and Experience:

You may have a combinion of successfully completed higher educion and experience. This experience must have equipped you with the particular qualificions to perform the major duties of this position as described above.

If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.**

Educion

See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .

ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, Click Here .

Foreign Educion: For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S. Department of Educion website: Recognition of Foreign Qualificions .

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on educion (i.e. basic educion requirement and/or substitution of educion), you required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Additional informion

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for original appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution.

The representive re for this position is $76,049 per annum ($36.44 per hour).

Special Conditions of Employment Section:

Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit checks.

All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm.

Successful completion of the "Introduction to Correctional Techniques," three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required.

The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence the time of applicion. You may be required to provide proof of residence.

Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice.

Although competitive and non-competitive applicions are being accepted, the selecting official may elect to have only one group reviewed.

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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

How you evalued

You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

If your composite score exceeds the average score for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your online assessment responses and utilized to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed in this announcement. If your selections are not supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion.

There are several parts of the applicion process th affect the overall evaluion of your applicion:

Your resume, which is part of your USAJOBS profile;

Your responses to the eligibility questions;

Your responses to the online assessment;

Your supporting documention, if required.

Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for considerion. You must meet all qualificion requirements upon the closing de of this announcement.

Wh Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are Required for this Position?

The following Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) are required:

Ability to communice orally.

Ability to communice in writing.

Ability to design/opere recreion (leisure)programs.

Ability to direct, coordine and develop sports, fitness, and leisure programs.

Ability to supervise participants and effectively manage time and resources.

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Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

Required documents

Required Documents

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Failure to provide legible required documents and/or follow the prescribed form often results in removal from considerion. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD-214, or Transcripts.

Resume: Resume (includes name and contact informion) limited to 2 pages showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.).

To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented:

Reflecting start de and end de in month/year form (MM/YYYY) AND

Include the number of hours worked per week.

SF-50: Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.

Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.

Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.

CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.

College transcript: includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree, and De Awarded (if applicable).

NOTE : If you are selected, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.

For more help, USAJOBS Help Center - Wh should I include in my resume?

We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

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You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.

Limit your resume to 2 pages. If the only resume(s) received is/are longer than two pages, your applicion is ineligible for further considerion. Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.

We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. USAJOBS Help Center - How to add a resume to your profile

Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).

All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.

Supporting documention for announcements with an applicion limition MUST be uploaded the same day you apply, as these positions may close earlier than sted in the announcement.

Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.

If applicable see Notice for Preference Eligible Veterans Applicants .

Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:

DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons

Consolided Staffing Unit

346 Marine Forces Drive

Grand Prairie, TX 75051

E-Mail: ...

Phone: ...

Agency contact informion

CSU

Phone

...

...

Address

JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS

Consolided Staffing Unit

346 Marine Forces Drive

Grand Prairie, Texas 75051

United Stes

Next steps

We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.

Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Required Documents

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Failure to provide legible required documents and/or follow the prescribed form often results in removal from considerion. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD-214, or Transcripts.

Resume: Resume (includes name and contact informion) limited to 2 pages showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.).

To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented:

Reflecting start de and end de in month/year form (MM/YYYY) AND

Include the number of hours worked per week.

SF-50: Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time in grade.

Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.

Current federal employees NOT employed by the BOP and former federal employees MUST submit a copy of their lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion.

CTAP, Click Here , if applicable.

College transcript: includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree, and De Awarded (if applicable).

NOTE : If you are selected, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day.

For more help, USAJOBS Help Center - Wh should I include in my resume?

We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc.

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

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You must apply through the online applicion system www.USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.

Limit your resume to 2 pages. If the only resume(s) received is/are longer than two pages, your applicion is ineligible for further considerion. Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the "How to Apply" instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment.

We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. USAJOBS Help Center - How to add a resume to your profile

Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded).

All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. You MUST include the vacancy announcement number on your supporting documention.

Supporting documention for announcements with an applicion limition MUST be uploaded the same day you apply, as these positions may close earlier than sted in the announcement.

Paper applicions: If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure.

If applicable see Notice for Preference Eligible Veterans Applicants .

Contact for Assistance in Applying On-Line:

DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons

Consolided Staffing Unit

346 Marine Forces Drive

Grand Prairie, TX 75051

E-Mail: ...

Phone: ...

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Agency contact informion

CSU

Phone

...

...

Address

JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS

Consolided Staffing Unit

346 Marine Forces Drive

Grand Prairie, Texas 75051

United Stes

Next steps

We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection.

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Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/16/2026 to 05/07/2026 Salary $69,338 - $89,473 per year Pay scale & grade GL 09 Locion Federal Medical Center Carswell, TX 2 vacancies Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 09 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Bargaining unit stus Announcement number CRW-2026-0063 Control number 865486800