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Job opening: Biological Science Technician (Fire Effects Monitor) Direct Hire Authority

Salary: $44 117 - 57 354 per year
City: Luray
Published at: Mar 27 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This career/career-conditional seasonal permanent position is located in Shenandoah National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov), in the Division of Ranger Activities, Fire Management Branch. The incumbent performs uncomplicated field and laboratory work in support of the parks vegetation and fire ecology programs and is associated with the supportive of professional work.

Duties

Leads employees in the collection, inventory, processing, and reporting of data for one or several parks' vegetation and fire ecology programs. Establishes monitoring plots in a variety of vegetation/fuel types in accordance with established guidelines. Independently identifies grasses, herbs, shrubs, and trees to species and collects, organizes, manages, and ensures quality control of field data using standardized data collection procedures. Collects geospatial data, creates project maps, and navigates to locate predetermined field points and records field locations using currently approved devices. Enters natural resource field data into a computer using customized software. Routinely performs error checking, data entry, quality-control, and simple to complex statistical analyses. Manage data and quality control in the office using a computer including data input and analysis. May perform duties of prescribed fire operations, wildland fire assignments and/or additional projects if qualified and as needed.

Requirements

Qualifications

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. 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 with 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. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: For the GS-06: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-05); Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to: Installation of fire vegetation monitoring plots; collection of vegetation, weather, or ecological field data; collection of wildland fuels data; observation and reporting of fire behavior. 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.

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level of this announcement.

Contacts

  • Address National Park Service call toll free number for address information Bosie, ID 83705 US
  • Name: Lisa Stoorza
  • Phone: 0000000000
  • Email: [email protected]

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