This position serves as the Supervisory Ecologist for the Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network base in Rapid City, Sout Dakota. The purpose of this position is to design, develop, coordinate, and administer a vegetation ecology program developed for use by the National Park Service and other scientists.

Duties

Leading and working with teams (consisting of NPS resource professionals, agency and academic researchers, and other internal or external cooperators) in the implementation and development of vegetation monitoring protocols. Supervising, and hiring permanent and seasonal vegetation program staff. Conducts statistical analysis, interprets and synthesizes results for written and oral presentations to park and scientific communities. Works closely with Invasive Plant Monitoring Team (IPMT) Liaison, fire ecologist, park resource managers, scientists, geographic information system (GIS) specialists, and cooperating personnel to evaluate data, assure that relevant and useful data are acquired and integrated into decision support tools used to help parks make informed treatment choices. Project management including project coordination, writing and overseeing contracts and agreements, developing work plans, schedules, and cost estimates, and tracking budgets.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-10/03/2024-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. Basic Individual Occupational Requirement for Ecology Series, 0408 Degree in biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences. These hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences. IMPORTANT-PLEASE NOTE: It is your responsibility to show how you satisfy the degree and other semester hours. YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS. To qualify for this position at the GS-12 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-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience with 1) participating in the planning and execution of ecological or biological studies with a limited number of variables; or 2) performing established, standardized tests and analyses on a broad range of biological monitoring data. 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

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

Contacts

• Address Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network 820 Columbus Street Rapid City, SD 57701 US
• Name: MWR HR West Team
• Phone: 402 661 1986
• Email: [email protected]