This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of three years and three months, without further competition. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service. This is a natural resources management position, engaged in the study, inventory, monitoring, restoration, and management of a broad range of natural resources, primarily of aquatic invasive species management.

Duties

The purpose of the position is to assist in the management and prevention of invasive species in the park, as directed. The incumbent will spend approximately 50% their time developing the park's zebra mussel response, including coordinating with federal, tribal, state, county, provincial, and non-profit partners to ensure uniform messaging, avoid redundant efforts, and identify coverage gaps. The position will continue park prevention and containment planning, pursue funding sources, and field supervision of temporary workers. Other major duties will include additional work on invasive species management, including management of invasive aquatic plants. General maintenance and basic repairs of equipment and vehicles used in invasive species management can occur. Data entry/data management, including use of ArcGIS, will be integral to this position. Incumbent will need to conduct outreach with the public and other stakeholders regarding prevention and management of invasive species. Voyageurs National Park is a water-based park and travel by motorboat is required to conduct fieldwork. The incumbent will be expected to work in a variety of environmental conditions; weather can vary from near-freezing temperatures with rain and snow in May to hot and humid weather in late summer. The incumbent must be in good physical condition and able to hike one-way distances of up to 6 miles over rough terrain while carrying loads of 50 pounds or more. Biting insects or other pests such as black flies, deer flies, mosquitoes, and ticks are common. For more information about this park, please visit: Voyageurs National Park. For more information about the position advertised, please contact Steve Windels email: [email protected] or call 218-324-3400

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-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-09 grade level, you must possess the following basic and minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: Basic Requirements: At least 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree that included a major field of study (24 semester hours) in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. Transcripts required. -OR- A combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The quality of the combination of education and experience must be sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field. In addition to courses in the major and related fields, a typical college degree would have included courses that involved analysis, writing, critical thinking, research, etc. These courses would have provided an applicant with skills and abilities sufficient to perform progressively more responsible work in the occupation. Therefore, creditable experience should have demonstrated similarly appropriate skills or abilities needed to perform the work of the occupation. Transcripts required. AND - Specialized Experience: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 professional grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Examples of specialized experience include duties related to prevention and management of aquatic invasive species, such as: developing and preparing the park's zebra mussel response, including coordinating with federal, tribal, state, county, provincial, and non-profit partners to ensure uniform messaging, avoid redundant efforts, and identify coverage gaps, implementing prevention and containment planning, pursue funding sources, and field supervision of temporary workers, evaluating invasive species management, including management of invasive aquatic plants, performing program management data entry/data management, including use of ArcGIS, and developing and conducting outreach with the public and other stakeholders regarding prevention and management of invasive species. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion of at least two years of progressively higher-level graduate education (36 semester hours or 54 quarters hours) leading to a master's degree or equivalent graduate degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or other related disciplines. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To determine if you qualify under this combination, first determine your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the specialized experience required; then determine your education as a percentage of the graduate education required. Only graduate education in excess of the first year (18 semester hours or equivalent) is creditable for this combination. Then add the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent. You must include transcripts. 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 Voyageurs National Park 360 Highway 11 East International Falls, MN 56649 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Phone: 402 661 1986
• Email: [email protected]