This Position located in Natural Resources Stewardship and Science, in the Natural Resources Stewardship and Science Division. The Incumbent performs a range of professional duties supporting investigations and scientific projects and programs. This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of 10 years. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service.

Duties

The major duties of the Geologist position include, but are not limited to, the following: Provides program management support to obtain, synthesize, and present geologic and geologic hazards data and information about National Park Service areas in Geographic Information System, written, and oral formats to multiple NPS and public audiences. Develops, maintains, and queries databases, other tracking systems, and geologic hazards monitoring systems to organize and present geologic and geologic hazards data and information and ensure discoverability by other audiences. Utilizes exceptional oral and written communication skills to disseminate geologic data and geologic hazards information to internal program and external NPS and public audiences via informal or formal methods (e.g., summaries, reports, briefs, websites, SOPs, presentations, PowerPoint slides, in-person or video conferences). Reviews or edits geologic data and information for consistency, grammatical correctness, and geologic accuracy.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/29/2024-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. Basic Requirements for Geology Series 1350: DEGREE: Geology, plus 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography. ***You must include transcripts*** -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Course work as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. ***You must include your resume with hours worked per week, as well as transcripts.***In addition to the basic requirements listed above, one full year of specialized experience must be met. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level, you must possess all of 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-07 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience at this level must include all of the following: performing geologic research or analysis, geologic hazards data collection research or analysis, use of programing languages for geologic data management, use of GPS (Global Positioning System) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for geologic research or data collection, resource management, report writing, presentations, interpretation, education or similar functions regarding local, state, or federal public lands. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least 2 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree or master's or equivalent graduate degree. You must include transcripts. -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. You must include your resume with hours worked per week annotated, as well as transcripts. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week. 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 Natural Resources Stewardship and Science 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 US
• Name: Devan Aguilar
• Email: [email protected]