This position is located in a National Park Service organization. The purpose of the position is to perform routine biological science tasks common to natural resource management. The GS-5 position is more closely reviewed and the incumbent receives specific instructions for nonroutine assignments, the GS-6 position has more independence.

Duties

Positions are TEMPORARY, not to exceed 1039 hours in a service year. These positions focus on wildlife/wild horse monitoring. GS-5 Duties: - Works under permanent park staff to conduct field activities related to wildlife population control, pest management, and habitat restoration. - Primarily focuses on monitoring and managing wild horse populations and mitigating human/wildlife conflicts. - Collects field observation data for monitoring terrestrial wildlife populations, habitat dynamics, and ecological processes. - Functions as an integral part of an interdivisional team while also completing independent tasks to achieve program goals. - Utilizes skills in wildlife population sampling, behavior recognition, and public interaction, as well as operating and maintaining optical and off-road equipment. GS-6 Duties: - Assists permanent park staff in coordinating and completing daily field activities related to wildlife management, including population control, pest management, and habitat restoration. - Takes responsibility for training, safety, oversight, and quality control when supervisors are not on site. - Focuses on monitoring wild horse populations and mitigating human/wildlife conflicts. - Collects field observation data for resource monitoring programs, evaluating wildlife populations and habitat dynamics. - Works as part of an interagency team while also completing independent tasks to achieve team goals. - Utilizes skills in wildlife population sampling, public interaction, and equipment maintenance, and conducts QA/QC for data collection. This is an open continuous announcement, in which applications are collected over several months, and have multiple cut-off dates. Applications will be considered throughout the open period of the announcement. **INITIAL CUT OFF IS Monday, January 6, 2025** Additional referral certificates will be issued when a hiring official exhausts current certificate and/or additional vacancies need to be filled.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-05/19/2025-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-05 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Experience must have been related to the work of the position for which application is made. The specialized experience required for some positions in this series is normally work performed in a controlled environment. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Record field observations of biological and ecological conditions as they relate to wildlife management; Collect, process, and assist in evaluating wildlife habitat (i.e., condition of forage, range or streams, etc.); Use standard laboratory procedures for analyzing samples of biological specimens; Identify animals to species level with the use of an identification key; Record all data collected and provide preliminary quality assessment; and Install, operate, and maintain wildlife management equipment (e.g., tools, sampling, monitoring, photographic, and laboratory equipment). You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with major study or at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as biology, chemistry, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, botany, physics, agriculture, or mathematics. You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. (Note: Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to 1 year of specialized experience.) For example, 6 months of the specialized experience described above (50% of the experience requirement), and 3 years of college study from an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education) which included at least 12 semester hours of related coursework as described above (50% of coursework required). The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts. To qualify for this position at the GS-06 grade level, you must possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in federal service (obtained in either public or private sectors). Experience must have been related to the work of the position for which application is made. The specialized experience required for some positions in this series is normally work performed in a controlled environment. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Recommend modifications to field activity procedures to accomplish project objectives; Adheres to established control/quality assurance protocols; Make preliminary determinations on cause of habitat problems such as drought, overpopulations, toxins, etc.; Assist conducting wildlife censuses and surveys; Assist assembling basic information of wildlife populations such as habitat use, sex, age, structure, seasonal movement, and harvest characteristics; Provide logistic support and technical information regarding ongoing field activities; and Uses standard statistical methods in preparation of reports as it relates to wildlife management. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least one full year of graduate education in an accredited educational institution (18 semester hours) in coursework directly related to the work of this position (such as biology, chemistry, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, botany, physics, natural resource management). You must include transcripts. -OR- COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. For example, 6 months of specialized experience (50% of experience requirement), and 6 months of graduate education as described above (50% of education requirement). The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. 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 Assateague Island National Seashore 7206 National Seashore Lane Berlin, MD 21811 US
• Name: Becky Olson
• Email: [email protected]