This position is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the Science & Resource Management Division. This position is a full-time, year-round temporary appointment not-to-exceed one year with potential to be extended for an additional one year for a maximum of two years based on agency needs and potential funding. Anticipated EOD Spring 2024. Government housing may be available. Be a successful applicant. Watch this 5 minute video to learn how to create a federal resume.

Duties

Manages monitoring-based projects to investigate changes in moderately complex hydrologic investigations. Plans and performs investigations on the hydrology and water quality of moderately complex streams, rivers, wetlands, springs, and groundwater systems. Performs statistical data analyses on data sets to characterize current conditions and to identify trends in conditions and interprets results. Constructs models to reproduce the hydrology of fluvial systems. Communicates findings from complex hydrologic investigations in technical reports and oral presentations to a wide variety of audiences, from technical experts to the public. Contributes to team efforts to implement site specific and landscape-level projects to maintain and restore watersheds, improve water quality, protect federal water rights, and protect Wild and Scenic Rivers.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/20/2024-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 of qualified specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-9 grade level, you must possess the following by close of the announcement: BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: 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 - A combination of education and experience that included 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, 6 semester hours in calculus (including both differential and integral calculus), 6 semester hours in physics 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. YOU MUST PROVIDE TRANSCRIPTS WITH YOUR APPLICATION PACKAGE. AND In addition to meeting the Basic Education Requirement, you must meet one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: collecting, managing, maintaining, interpreting, and analyzing hydrologic data; monitoring surface water quality and flow patterns; performing wetland delineation or assessments; planning and implementing field work that includes overcoming logistical challenges such as but not limited to difficult environmental conditions (i.e. remote, mountainous, swift water, extreme temperatures, or other environmental challenges). You must include dates (month and year) and hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least 2 years (36 semester hours, 54 quarter hours or the equivalent) of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Master's or equivalent graduate degree in hydrology, watershed management, fluvial geomorphology, applied geosciences, or other directly related field of study if it provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include transcripts. Note: only graduate level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. For example, six months of the specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 (50 percent of the experience requirement for GS-09) and 27 semester hours or 41 quarter hours (assuming no evidence the attended college or university requires more than 18 semester hours as equivalent to a year of graduate study) of appropriate directly related graduate education (50 percent of the education requirement above that which would be required to qualify for GS-7 grade level) would be qualifying for the GS-9 grade level. Volunteer Experience: 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. ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior­ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.

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 Grand Teton National Park PO Drawer 170 Moose, WY 83012-0710 US
• Name: Emily Selleck
• Phone: (307) 739-3446
• Email: [email protected]