This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), West Coast Region (WCR), Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with one vacancy in Monterey, CA. This position is also announced under vacancy number NOS ONMS-24-12470550-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Resource Protection Specialist you will perform the following duties: Review, monitor and update resource protection strategies and activities to conserve, protect, enhance, restore, investigate, and maintain sanctuary resources for national marine sanctuaries and other Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Analyze and support the development and preparation of policy and planning documents and ensure thorough coordination of management priorities within the sanctuary and with key external partners (i.e. state, local communities, tribes, academia, etc.) to meet the goals and objectives of Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (OMNS). Apply National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) policies and procedures to analyze and evaluate issues for resource protection and management for ONMS programs, plans and projects. Analyze legislation, regulations, and executive orders to determine impact on national marine sanctuaries program operations and management pursuant to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act or other related environmental regulations, including NEPA. Identify and define major issues and prepare agency policy documents, including drafting regulations, management plans and environmental compliance documents (e.g. Environmental Assessments, Categorical Exclusions). Provide recommendations on policies, legislation, or executive actions, or in response to these actions. Recommend initiatives or actions to the sanctuary superintendent in support of timely and effective development and implementation of policy and planning priorities to meet program and project objectives. Coordinate and cultivate collaborations with key partners on policy priorities, plans, projects, and matters of shared interest. Use analytical and written skills in the review, development, coordination and implementation of, and reporting on NOAA and site resource management policies, plans and activities. Communicate sanctuary priorities and project results to a variety of audiences through oral presentations and written outreach materials. Recommend and justify appropriate resource management strategies for various activities that may occur within a sanctuary to improve processes and procedures. Identify and mitigate potential problems. Participate in spill response planning and marine incident response as part of an on-scene (field) response team. Serve as one of several NOAA representatives during marine incident emergencies to carry out, monitor and coordinate natural resource damage assessment processes/procedures and regulatory and permit compliance activities. Contribute to water quality planning and implementation.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. To qualify at the ZA-3 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assisting with the interpretation or application and implementation of policies or strategies for protecting marine resources; Developing reports, briefings or presentations for a variety of audiences; and Providing support for hazardous material incidents and disasters, or assisting in the coordination of scientific response activities, or damage assessment processes and procedures. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience equivalent to that described above. Note: Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for the GS-11.

Education

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Applicant Inquiries
• Email: [email protected]