Job opening: Planning and Environmental Specialist (Recent Graduate)
Salary: $49 025 - 77 955 per year
Published at: Jun 17 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the Farmington Field Office, in Farmington, NM.
This position is concurrently open to all U.S. Citizens under Announcement Number BLM-NM-24-12418104-DE-OPM
This position is concurrently open to Merit Promotion eligibles under Announcement Number BLM-NM-24-12418105-MP-OPM
Salary Range:
GS-07---- $ 49,025 to $63,733
GS-09---- $ 59,966 to $77,955
Duties
Works with project leaders and interdisciplinary teams (IDT) that are organized as needed to work on specific planning and NEPA document components.
Works closely with the District/Field Office Public Information Officer and the project lead and managers to ensure adequate public participation in the planning process.
Reviews environmental assessment documents prepared in the District/Field Office to insure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Develops and works to publish or post information regarding completed, in-progress, and future planning document availability.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level of GS-11.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- May be required to complete background investigation and drug screening.
- Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males
- Must provide resume and supporting documents (See required documents).
- You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.
- If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
- You will be required to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
- Recent Graduates who satisfactorily complete the Pathways Recent Graduates Program and meet all eligibility requirements for conversion may be non-competitively converted to a Term or Permanent appointment in the competitive service.
Qualifications
Pathways Recent Graduate applicants must have completed, within the previous two years, a qualifying associate's, bachelor's, master's, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution. Veterans unable to apply within two years of receiving their degree, due to military service obligation, have up to six years after degree completion to apply. Pathways Recent Graduates.
Recent Graduate Program Requirements:
Students MUST submit transcripts with a conferred or degree completion date (unofficial transcripts are acceptable). If selected, official transcripts will be required.
An Individual Development Plan (IDP) will be completed within 45 days of appointment to track the Recent Graduates' career planning, professional development, and training activities.
Selectee will be required to sign a Recent Graduates Participant Agreement.
Within the first year of employment, the incumbent will be provided a minimum of 40 formal hours of training.
The incumbent will be assigned a mentor within 90 days of appointment.
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience. If qualifying based on education, a copy of your unofficial transcripts must be provided with your application.
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.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required specialized experience and/or education for the respective grade level in which you are applying:
Specialized Experience GS-07: Applicants must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained either in the private or public sectors) performing the following: (1) applying knowledge of public land resource values, issues, and controversies (2) incorporating considerations from disciplines such as range, wildlife, forestry, recreation, fire management, wilderness, and ecology) into planning and environmental processes; (3) working with staff specialists, management officials, and groups of people with diverse backgrounds, (4) communicating verbally and in writing on planning issues that are presented to a variety of audiences.
OR, Education GS-07: Successful completion of at least one (1) full year (18 semester hours) of graduate level education from an accredited college or university in a related field of study which provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR, Combination GS-07: Successful completion of an equivalent combination of specialized experience and graduate education described above. To determine your combination, first compute your experience as a percentage of the experience listed above; then determine your education as a percentage of the education listed above; then add the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent.
OR, SAA GS-07: Successful completion of a bachelor's degree in a curriculum that is qualifying for this position as described above from an accredited college or university, AND meets one of the requirements for Superior Academic Achievement based on the following: (1) class standing(upper third standing in the graduating class of a college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses); (2) grade-point average (3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0) as recorded on the official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or (3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0)based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; (3) election to membership in a national scholastic honor society.
Specialized Experience GS-09: Applicants must have one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained either in the private or public sectors) performing the following: (1) assisting with resource management planning and environmental analysis processes; (2) incorporating considerations from disciplines such as range, wildlife, forestry, recreation, fire management, wilderness, and ecology) into planning and environmental processes; (3) working with staff specialists, management officials, and groups of people with diverse backgrounds, (4) presenting planning issues to a variety of audiences.
OR, Education GS-09: Successful completion of at least a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years (36 semester hours or equivalent) of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master's degree, equivalent graduate degree, or LL.B. or J.D, i if related, from an accredited college or university in a related field of study which provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
OR, Combination GS-09: Successful completion of an equivalent combination of specialized experience and graduate education described above. To determine your combination, first compute your experience as a percentage of the experience listed above; then determine your education as a percentage of the education listed above; then add the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate education in excess of one full year (18 semester hours or equivalent) may be used to qualify.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKEASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).
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.
You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies".
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.
PASS/FAIL COURSES: 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.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: 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.
Contacts
- Address BLM New Mexico State Office
BLM New Mexico, NM-951
301 Dinosaur Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87508
US
- Name: San Antonio Services Branch
- Phone: 816-541-8101
- Email: [email protected]
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