This position is located in the Everglades National Park in the Biological Sciences Branch.

Duties

Major duties for this position include but are not limited to: Serves as expert on vegetation communities and their defining ecological characteristics, plant populations within the greater Everglades ecosystem, and vegetation community changes and interactions with natural and anthropogenic factors including restoration, natural resource management actions, and climate change. Plan and develop a comprehensive and complex program of protection and conservation strategies specific to plants and vegetation communities within the greater Everglades ecosystem, with emphasis on the rare, unique, and vulnerable vegetation communities. Develops and implements a program of vegetation community-level inventory and monitoring projects to assess responses to ecosystem restoration, management actions, climate change and other factors, building off of previous monitoring efforts in the Everglades region. Identifies research needs related to plant communities and conservation efforts, prepares research proposals and statements of work, and negotiates cooperative/ interagency agreements for research projects as Agreements Technical Representative. Develops/integrates Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, remote sensing and other spatial data collection methods to analyze and describe landscape-level vegetation community characteristics and patterns of change.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/15/2024-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 Education Requirements for an Ecologist: A 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. You must provide copies of your transcripts. -AND- In addition to meeting the basic requirements, applicants must possess additional specialized experience to qualify for this GS-12 position: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or higher in Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is experience that equips the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of qualifying specialized experience includes but is not limited to: conducting research to understand factors affecting plant communities and publishing reports and documents to communicate study findings; designing and implementing plant community monitoring programs through data collection, analysis, and reporting; working on preparation of resource management plans and strategies needed to successfully manage and protect natural ecosystems and environmental conditions; providing technical assistance to natural resource managers regarding plant community management policy and science-based conservation. You must provide hours worked per week and to/from dates (month/year) on your resume. 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 NPS Inflation Reduction Act 1849 C St. NW Washington, DC 20240 US
• Name: Heather Dujay
• Email: [email protected]