This position is located in Interior Region 2, in the Wildland Fire and Aviation Division. Open to the first 100 applicants or until 07/04/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.

Duties

This position is located at the Southern Area Coordination Center (SACC) in Atlanta, GA. SACC is a detached unit from the Aviation and Fire Management Staffs of the Forest Service Regional Office, Bureau of Land Management State Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs Area Office, National Park Service Regional Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office. The incumbent serves as the Geographic Area Fire Weather Meteorologist for the five Federal Government land management agencies in cooperation with state, county, and local agencies in the Geographic Area. The incumbent represents land management agencies in fire weather and climatology related activities supporting wildland fire and prescribed fire management activities and other disaster emergency response. The incumbent provides interagency program management, conducts evaluations, develops new fire weather products, and provides advocacy and liaison for wildland fire agencies in the fire weather arena. The incumbent communicates and coordinates with federal and state interagency fire management staffs at their regional/state/area offices, numerous interagency field units, other Geographic Area Coordination Centers, National Interagency Coordination Center at Boise, ID, National Weather Service (NWS), private weather vendors/contractors, and other cooperators.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/04/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this series, you must possess at least one of the following Individual Occupational Requirements for the Meteorologist 1340 series by close of the announcement: EDUCATION: Basic Requirements: Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or other natural science major that included: At least 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of credit in meteorology/atmospheric science including a minimum of: Six semester hours of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics; * Six semester hours of analysis and prediction of weather systems (synoptic/mesoscale); Three semester hours of physical meteorology; and Two semester hours of remote sensing of the atmosphere and/or instrumentation. Six semester hours of physics, with at least one course that includes laboratory sessions. * Three semester hours of ordinary differential equations. * At least nine semester hours of course work appropriate for a physical science major in any combination of three or more of the following: physical hydrology, statistics, chemistry, physical oceanography, physical climatology, radiative transfer, aeronomy, advanced thermodynamics, advanced electricity and magnetism, light and optics, and computer science. * There is a prerequisite or corequisite of calculus for course work in atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics, physics, and differential equations. Calculus courses must be appropriate for a physical science major. You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: I possess a combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must include transcripts. -AND- In addition to the above requirements, in order to qualify for this position at the GS-13 grade level, you must possess 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-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: issued fire weather forecasts and warnings for wildfires, prescribe burns, herbicide spraying, hazardous spills, pesticide spraying, wildland and wilderness management. Assisted Agency as well as National Weather Service personnel in development of and provided training for fire management agency courses that included instruction of basic meteorology, weather observations, smoke management, forecasts, warnings, and other services. You must include hours per week worked. You must include hours per week worked. 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.

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 Interior Region 2 100 Alabama Street Building 1924 Atlanta, GA 30303 US
• Name: Jennifer Lopez
• Email: [email protected]