This position is located in Redwood National and State Parks, in the Natural Resource Management Division. This is a Career-Seasonal position and subject to release and recall procedures. It is anticipated that you will be in a non-pay status for 2 weeks in February. A permanent career-seasonal position includes all the benefits of permanent employment but does not provide employment on a full year-round basis.

Duties

Implement established natural resource management projects (e.g., road-related field examinations, field surveys, inventories, etc.) related to one or more of the physical sciences (e.g., watershed management). Collects and organizes field data following instructions and standardized procedures. Ensures adequate quality control of data collected. Serve as project inspector for contracted road-related activities by providing logistical support and area orientation for contractors, providing technical information, ensuring quality control and adherence to policies, and solving logistical or operational problems within the scope of the incumbent's knowledge and authority. Assist in the preparation of reports, plans, and guidelines. Draft project reports may include literature research, descriptions of methods, preparation of graphs and charts, and summary of findings. Assists in developing graphs, computations, engineering curves, mathematical calculations, and illustrations for technical studies and presentations- including mapping, simple data analysis, and some data development using Geographic Information Systems and related equipment. Monitor road-related impacts and water quality and recommends methods and programs to maintain quality and/or recommends mitigating actions for land uses. Physical Demands: The position requires strenuous physical activity including long periods of standing, walking, climbing, lifting, and carrying heavy objects. The incumbent must be able to hike long distances off trail in remote backcountry areas, carrying heavy packs and equipment up to 50 pounds. Some activities will occur in physically dangerous areas or settings. Office work is primarily sedentary and requires the ability to concentrate and operate a computer for long periods of time at a desk. Position requires operation of four-wheel drive vehicles in remote, back country areas. Working Conditions: Work is performed both indoors and outdoors in all types of weather. Assignments may be performed in potentially hazardous areas including steep slopes, rocky terrain, wet ground, dense vegetation, high temperatures and humidity's, freezing temperatures, heavy rain, and dense fog. Work may include exposure to ticks, poison oak, and stinging insects such as bees and wasps. Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. A Recruitment Incentive May Be Authorized for a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR 575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive. A Relocation Incentive May Be Authorized for a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/01/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-8 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: (1) performing a variety of complex physical science technical support functions in the fields of hydrology, geology, and/or geomorphology; (2) organizing, scheduling, and conducting a wide variety of natural resource management projects such as field examinations, field surveys, and/or inventories related to one or more of the physical sciences; (3) evaluating annual restoration outcomes against expected or anticipated results and recommending adjustments (adaptive management); (4) Monitoring, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding consistency of resource restoration implementation with stated specifications; (5) Utilizing a variety of computer programs to compile resource management information, including long-term monitoring projects. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least. a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two (2) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree from an accredited college or university in physics, chemistry, hydrology, geophysics, geology, or other appropriate fields of physical science. NOTE: You must submit a copy of your transcripts as proof of any claimed education. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above that, when converted to percentages, equal at least 100% of the total requirement. To combine education and experience, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of completed graduate education beyond the first year by 18 (or 27 for quarter hours). NOTE: You must submit a copy of your transcripts as proof of any claimed education. To qualify for this position at the GS-9 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Examples of specialized experience include: coordinating environmental monitoring; sampling environmental data; resource management, data management, or reporting and communicating results. This experience must come from work in the fields of geology, hydrology, natural resource management, and/or other science work performed in close association with physical scientists or other technical personnel and provided intensive knowledge of appropriate scientific principles, methods, techniques, and precedents. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two (2) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree from an accredited college or university in physical science, chemistry, engineering or mathematics, or related disciplines appropriate to this position such as physics, chemistry, hydrology, geophysics, geology, or other appropriate fields of physical science. NOTE: You must submit a copy of your transcripts as proof of any claimed education. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above that, when converted to percentages, equal at least 100% of the total requirement. To combine education and experience, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of completed graduate education beyond the first year by 18 (or 27 for quarter hours). NOTE: You must submit a copy of your transcripts as proof of any claimed education. 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 Redwood National and State Parks 1111 Second Street Crescent City, CA 95531 US
• Name: Lori Frusetta
• Phone: 831-946-8008
• Email: [email protected]