This position is located in Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate, in the Inventory and Monitoring Division. The incumbent serves as a technical advisor in ecology for one or more parks to apply a systems approach to the study and analysis of organisms and ecological relationships. You will work for approximately 11 months of the year and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year.

Duties

The major duties of the Ecologist position include, but are not limited to, the following: Leads hydrology, botany, and surveying portions of big river and riparian work across 4 networks. Oversees and trains field crew members in appropriate data collection and quality control, following safety procedures for remote backcountry work. Collects, enters, and organizes natural resource field data (e.g., plant, water, geomorphology) using standardized monitoring protocols. Assists with protocol revisions, prepares reports and publications, and communicates results to various audiences. Coordinates field operations with park staff and field crews to ensure logistics and scheduling needs are met.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 08/14/2023 - unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for the Ecologist position at the GS-09, you must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: BASIC REQUIREMENTS DEGREE: Successful completion of a degree in biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences. These hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences. In addition to the basic requirements listed above, one full year of specialized experience must be met. EXPERIENCE: Must possess at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience at this level must include all of the following: (1) Leading and training others in performing a variety of measured data collection activities for physical and biological samples; (2) Identifying, measuring, or counting organisms or the environment; (3) Recording, entering, and checking the data; and (4) Preparing data summaries and reports on the findings from fieldwork. ***You must include hours per week worked.*** -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least two years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. ***You must include transcripts.*** -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. ***You must include transcripts.*** You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Inventory and Monitoring Data Networks 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 US
• Name: Washington Office
• Email: [email protected]