This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Rocky Mountain Region in Billings, Montana. NOTE: TRAVEL AND RELOCATION EXPENSES MAYBE AUTHORIZED AT MANAGEMENTS DISCRETION: MANAGEMENT IS WILLING TO OFFER A RECRUITMENT/RELOCATION INCENTIVE TO HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES.

Duties

Incumbent will serve as the Hydrologist in the Rocky Mountain Region and your duties will include, but not limited to, the responsibility of leading or participating on hydrologic studies of considerable scope and complexity serving as a project leader or member of an interdisciplinary team. Plans, directs, performs, and/or coordinates comprehensive hydrologic studies or significant components of extensive studies, that describe and interpret hydrologic conditions in order to define, analyze, forecast, or describe both natural and human-induced hydrologic changes in the area. Utilize discipline expertise in the field of hydrology with an advanced level of professional competence who provides expert technical advice and assistance to Land, resource, facility managers, and other internal and internal clients. Serve as a project leader or senior project member for complete hydrological investigation by planning, conducting, and reporting on interpretive studies. Much of the work may be in direct coordination with other specialists to accomplish habitat management and restoration. Assignments will need to be coordinated throughout the year with other program leads, Tribal leadership, and Agency Offices.

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

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Time in grade: Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirement of 52 weeks of service at the GS-11 grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. Hydrology Series, 1315: Individual Occupational Requirements: Basic Requirements: Degree: 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. Calculus and physics, as described above, are requirements for all grade levels. or Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Evaluation of Experience: 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 with related experience in hydrology gained through earlier Federal Government employment might have gained that experience in one or more occupational series. Such series include Soil Conservation, GS-457; Forestry, GS-460; Soil Science, GS-470; Civil Engineering, GS-810; Chemistry, GS-1320; Meteorology, GS-1340; and Geology, GS-1350. Comparable non-Federal experience may be given similar credit. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: For GS-12 Grade Level: Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11; or its non-Federal equivalent that demonstrates, performing analytical duties associated with but not limited to; Examples include: have at least one (1) year of specialized work experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the private or public sectors) performing the following: 1) applying the principles, practices, and theories of hydrology and/or hydraulic/hydrologic engineering for program schedules, budget documents, and related information pertaining to water operations and hydrologic functions; 2) assigning responsibility for work or making special assignments as necessary and evaluating the accomplishment of work consistent with policies and guidelines; and 3) maintaining cooperative relations with water user organizations and Federal, State, and local government agencies on matters pertaining to water resources. 4) ensuring compliance with the Clean Water Act and other laws regulating soil and water resources through conducting sampling, monitoring water quality, coordination of study efforts. 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: Misty Flying
• Phone: 4062477956
• Email: [email protected]