This position is located in the National Weather Service (NWS), Pacific Region (PR), Weather Forecast Office (WFO), with one vacancy, in Honolulu, HI. This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS PR HI-24-12201072-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

The working title for this position is General Forecaster. As a General Forecaster, you will perform the following duties: Develop and issue scheduled and unscheduled meteorological products and services while providing advice, guidance, and warnings for local, state, and federal levels during severe and hazardous weather situations. Determine forecast guidance requirements and evaluate new technology or techniques for incorporation into an operating environment to improve forecast capabilities and work to resolve problems or concerns raised by internal or external partners or customers. Provide assistance in area-wide warning and preparedness programs and severe weather public awareness programs and conduct or participate in the conduct of local studies and developmental projects to find ways to improve services applying expertise in weather forecast operations. Integrate meteorological data and assess data sets to determine the need for and develop warnings, statements, or advisories to meet user needs. Duties described above are at the full performance GS-13 level, the GS-12 level is developmental intended to prepare them for the GS-13.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position requires applicants to meet a Basic Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of specialized experience in order to be found minimally qualified. You MUST meet one of the following basic education requirements: A. Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or other natural science major that included: 1. At least 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of credit in meteorology/atmospheric science including a minimum of: a. Six semester hours of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics;* b. Six semester hours of analysis and prediction of weather systems (synoptic/mesoscale); c. Three semester hours of physical meteorology; and d. Two semester hours of remote sensing of the atmosphere and/or instrumentation. 2. Six semester hours of physics, with at least one course that includes laboratory sessions.* 3. Three semester hours of ordinary differential equations.* 4. At least nine semester hours of course work appropriate for a physical science major in any combination of three or more of the following: physical hydrology, statistics, chemistry, physical oceanography, physical climatology, radiative transfer, aeronomy, advanced thermodynamics, advanced electricity and magnetism, light and optics, and computer science. * There is a prerequisite or corequisite of calculus for course work in atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics, physics, and differential equations. Calculus courses must be appropriate for a physical science major OR B. Combination of education and experience - course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. To Qualify for a GS-1340-12 position you must meet the below requirements: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Provide meteorological support for aviation operations, satellite meteorology, marine weather or hydrometeorology. Disseminate weather information, including potentially hazardous weather conditions to officials. To Qualify for a GS-1340-13 position you must meet the below requirements: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Analyzing and assessing current and forecast weather situations; Formulating and issuing weather forecasts, warnings, and advisories; and Providing weather forecasts or other technical materials to partners.

Education

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. A listing of these accredited organizations can be found on the Department of Education's website. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation by the closing date of the announcement will result in lost consideration. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Michele Davis
• Email: [email protected]