This position is located in Lake Meredith National Recreation Area; Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) Division; duty location Fritch, TX The incumbent of this position will perform routine and uncomplicated field and laboratory work in support of the park vegetation and fire ecology program(s). For questions regarding the location or duties performed, please reach out to Allyson Arulanantham at [email protected].

Duties

Establish monitoring plots in a variety of vegetation/fuel types according to established guidelines. Identify grasses, herbs, shrubs, and trees to genus and species by knowledge or using a dichotomous key. Enter natural resource field data into personal computers or handheld electronic devices using customized software. Accurately read topographic maps and locate predetermined points with GPS. Prepare field maps and photographs of natural features from the ground. Monitor and report live and dead fuel loadings, fuel moistures, fire weather, and/or fire behavior data.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/11/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement 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 qualified specialized experience. If an applicant's resume is incomplete or does not support the requirements for minimum qualifications or specialized experience a rating of "ineligible" or "not qualified" will be applied and no consideration for employment will be granted. EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: For the GS-05: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-4 grade level; Examples of specialized experience are: Collected vegetation, weather, or ecological field data in support of monitoring or research programs; assisted in establishing vegetation and/or fuel loading measurement plots; collected data to assess burn severity or fire effects after prescribed or wildland fire. OR Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as biology, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, botany, physics, agriculture, or mathematics. At least 6 semester hours of courses must have been directly related to the position to be filled. The successful completion of a full course of study of at least 12 months in a school for clinical laboratory technicians may be substituted for the 1 year of specialized experience required at the GS-5 level for positions involving microbiology and biochemistry technician work - transcripts must be attached to receive credit for education.; OR Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education (in excess of the first 60 semester/90 quarter hours) and specialized experience. The education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college, or university with courses related to the occupation of the position. To receive consideration for this position, you must provide updated required documents and meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

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 Lake Meredith National Recreation Area 419 E Broadway Fritch, TX 79036 US
• Name: Lisa Salazar
• Phone: 505-917-5189
• Email: [email protected]