Job opening: Meteorological Technician
Salary: $55 378 - 71 993 per year
Published at: Jan 24 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Alaska Region (AR) with 1 vacancy located in Anchorage, Alaska.
This is a RE-ADVERTISEMENT of Announcement Number: NWS AR-24-12250884-DE. Applicants that have previously applied NEED to re-apply to this announcement.
Duties
You will serve as a Meteorological Technician. As a Meteorological Technician you will perform the following duties:
Perform technical work related to weather and climatological observations.
Record and disseminate data to the public and other personnel.
Provide supplemental situational awareness by relaying observed and reported weather conditions in support of Weather Forecast Office forecast and warning operations.
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
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.
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.
*To qualify at the GS-7 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-6 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:
Collecting and measuring climatological and meteorological data by use of various instruments and equipment
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SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Successful completion of one full year of graduate level education leading to a degree with major study in meteorology, mathematics, engineering, or physical science.-
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COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Combination of experience and graduate-level education.
Education
EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit:
OPM Foreign Education Evaluation
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.
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.
Contacts
- Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS)
1315 East West Hwy
SSMC4
Silver Spring, MD 20910
US
- Name: Applicant Inquiries
- Email: [email protected]
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