This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western Region in Phoenix, Arizona. This position serves as a senior hydrologist performing water resources and water rights protection technical work in support of the water rights confirmed to the Region's tribes and water rights claims under active adjudication in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. This position is Open Until Filled. This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see What are bargaining units?

Duties

This position serves as a senior hydrologist performing water resources and water rights protection technical work in support of the water rights confirmed to the Region's tribes and water rights claims under active adjudication in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. The position also supports the Indian water rights teams established by DOI. Duties include but are not limited to: completing large-scale hydrologic investigations by planning, conducting, and reporting on interpretive studies; collecting, interpreting, analyzing and evaluating data for large scale hydrologic systems; developing approaches, standards, methods, guides, and procedures for conducting interpretive studies; developing, extending, calibrating, and advancing the use of comprehensive analytical and numerical models; coordinating and managing the execution of highly specialized technical analysis; conducting planning, review, and evaluation of multi-basin, multi-aquifer investigations; serving as subject matter expert for a geographic area with multiple watersheds; providing technical data, expert advice, or recommendations on water resource issues; and training personnel in advanced techniques of data collection and analysis.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Indian Preference applies
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Incumbent is required to operate a government motor vehicle, must possess a valid driver's license, and have a safe driving record within the 4 year period immediately preceding submittal of GSA Form 3607.

Qualifications

This position is OPEN UNTIL FILLED and may be extended or closed prior to the current closing date. Applications will be reviewed every two weeks; the first cut-off date for applications is 10 business days from the opening date and every two weeks thereafter. Applicants with 10-point Veterans' Preference who submit a complete application after each two week cut-off date, but before the List of Eligibles is issued, will be considered and referred on the List, if qualified. BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL GS-1315 FEDERAL HYDROLOGIST POSITIONS: Education Degree in physical or natural science, or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in any combination of courses in hydrology, the physical sciences, geophysics, chemistry, engineering science, soils, mathematics, aquatic biology, atmospheric science, meteorology, geology, oceanography, or the management or conservation of water resources. The course work must have included at least 6 semester hours in calculus (including both differential and integral calculus), and at least 6 semester hours in physics. OR Possess a combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Acceptable experience must have included performance of scientific functions related to the study of water resources, based on and requiring a professional knowledge of related sciences and the consistent application of basic scientific principles to the solution of theoretical and practical hydrologic problems. The following is illustrative of acceptable experience: field or laboratory work that would require application of hydrologic theory and related sciences such as geology, geo-chemistry, geophysics, or civil engineering to making observations, taking samples, operating instruments, assembling data from source materials, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings orally and in writing. In some cases, professional scientific experience that is not clearly water resource experience may be acceptable if such experience was preceded by appropriate education in hydrology or by professional hydrology experience. Applicants who meet the following experience requirement in addition to the Basic Requirements listed above may qualify for this GS-13 level position: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level or its non-federal equivalent that demonstrates serving as a senior hydrologist or subject matter expert performing water resources and water rights protection technical work in support of the water rights confirmed to a regional entity supporting multiple client organizations and water rights claims under active adjudication. Additional examples of specialized experience include performing work related to water resource issues in the planning, direction, performance and coordination of comprehensive hydrologic studies or components of extensive studies that describe and interpret historical and current hydrologic conditions; completing large-scale hydrologic investigations by planning, conducting, and reporting on interpretive studies; collecting, interpreting, analyzing and evaluating data and formulating scientific findings for large-scale interpretive studies; advising and formulating approaches for managing water resources and/or water rights as a subject matter expert. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date. Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the 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. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Contacts

• Address BIA Center for Recruitment Rocky Mountain Regional BIA Center for Recruitment Rocky Mountain Regional 2021 4th Avenue North Billings, MT 59101 US
• Name: Lourde Botone
• Phone: (602) 241-4560 X1
• Email: [email protected]