The Bureau of Land Management is looking for a new project manager with a knack for coordinating a 70,000-person art installation in the desert — one which features nudity, tribal drumming and concludes in a large-scale inferno.

The feds need someone to help run Burning Man.

The position, posted on USAJobs.gov and first tweeted by Ezra Klein, requests a person to serve as project leader for "complex projects such as [Resource Management Plans], major [Environmental Impact Studies] and [Environmental Assessments] and Special Recreation Permits, in particular the Burning Man event, which have a broad scope and often require coordination outside the district organization."

The job is a GS-12-level position and offers a salary between $69,500 and $90,344, located in Winnemucca, Nev.

"It's a wide-ranging position," said Rudy Evenson, deputy chief of communications for BLM's Nevada office. "It requires skills in a lot of different areas of things that BLM deals with: land management, planning, environmental compliance and recreation."

The festival began in 1986 and since 1990 is held annually in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a week, drawing up to 70,000 people in 2015.

Burning Man often draws a diverse following of artists, innovators and participants in a wide-ranging festival of self-expression revolving around the summer solstice. Festival-goers build a temporary city, called Black Rock City, which includes various art installations, encampments and a temporary airport.

The event includes the construction of a massive effigy, called the Burning Man, which can be more than 100 feet tall and is set aflame at the conclusion of the festival.

Since the event is annually held in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, the BLM helps manage attendance levels, develops special permits for the event and coordinates with state and local agencies to provide safety and service.

In what's called a Special Recreation Permit, BLM lays out stipulations for organizers and attendees of the Burning Man festival following a five-year environmental assessment of its impact. The project manager would play a large role in determining those stipulations as well as coordinating with state and local agencies to manage the event.

The current permit expires after the 2016 Burning Man festival, and Evenson said that the next project manager would play a large role in not only the next permit, but also managing future festivals.

"Whoever comes into this job, in addition to managing the permit every year, is also going to be in charge of leading a new environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act," Evenson said.

The posting also requests knowledge of "land management concepts, principles, and practices to perform the full range of duties connected with planning for management of a variety of natural resources including, but not limited to, geohydrology, minerals, fire (fuels), recreation, wilderness, wildlife, watershed, riparian, fisheries, cultural resources, and range management," as well as skills in group dynamics.

Evenson added that the position is often a launching pad to leadership roles within the BLM.

"Because it's the largest and most complex SRP that the agency manages, once a person has done this job they are extremely well qualified to become a district-level or a state-office level recreation manager," he said.

The job posting went up on Jan. 25 and is open until Feb. 8.

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