This position is part of the Natural Resources Conservation Service State Office staff. The incumbent reports directly to the State Conservationist and serves as a program manager and state liaison in fostering partnerships that address statewide conservation issues.

Duties

Establishing and the maintenance of alliances with traditional and nontraditional partners, provide information to legislators on current conservation issues relating to NRCS responsibilities. Assessing conservation partners on partnership agreement issues and sharing this information with the Supervisor and other leadership team members. Tracking and monitoring state activities and may affect the accomplishment of strategic and tactical goals and objectives. Establishing and maintaining contacts with individuals and groups. Developing and implementing a communication network among partners to provide timely and relevant data on key issues. Contacts, does outreach, and builds relationships with nontraditional groups and organizations such as environmental resource conservation groups, urban organizations with natural resource and agriculture interests, water quality organizations. Seeks to bring new groups into the planning process and facilitates their input into the communications network.

Requirements

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check. If selected you will be sent instructions on obtaining fingerprints. Please note we are not able to reimburse any fees incurred for fingerprints.
• Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Direct Deposit – Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
• Must possess and maintain a valid state motor vehicle operator's license for the type of vehicle(s) operated to perform the duties of this position.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Time in grade: Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirement of 52 week of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. (e.g., one year at the GS-11 grade level for consideration for the GS-12 grade level). Specialized Experience: To qualify for the GS-12 level, you must possess one year of experience (equivalent to at least the GS-11 level or pay band or higher in the Federal service) that includes performing the following duties: Establishing and the maintenance of alliances with traditional and nontraditional partners, provide information to legislators on current conservation issues relating to NRCS responsibilities. Assessing conservation partners on resource issues and sharing this information with the supervisors and other leadership team members. Tracking and monitoring state activities that may affect the accomplishment of strategic and tactical partnership agreement goals and objectives. Establishing and maintaining contacts with individuals and groups. Developing and implementing a communication network among partners to provide timely and relevant data on key issues. Initiates contacts, does outreach, and builds cooperative relationships with nontraditional groups and organizations such as environmental resource conservation groups, urban organizations with natural resource and agriculture interests, water quality organizations, etc. Seeks to bring new groups into the planning process and facilitates their input into the communications network. Note: There is no education substitution for the GS-12 level. For more information on the qualifications for this position, click here: http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/Standards/group-stds/gs-admin.asp.

Education

You must submit a copy of your college transcripts or a list of college courses with credit hours, dates completed, and grades received to verify all education requirements (i.e. substitution of education and/or basic education requirement). If a relevant course is not clearly qualifying (e.g. special topic, seminar, research, thesis, obscure or misleading course title, etc.), please submit an official course syllabi and/or detailed course description from the university/college for that particular course to ensure you are properly evaluated. Please note that qualifications determinations are based solely on the information submitted for each particular vacancy announcement. You must document all requirements on every vacancy; we cannot use previous determinations as a basis for rating. All required information must be received by the closing date of this announcement, and non-submission of all required documents/documentation will result in non-consideration. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted. This information must be received by the closing date of this announcement. Non-submission of these documents will result in non-consideration.

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Applicants must, therefore, only report attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation via this link. All education claimed by applicants will be verified accordingly. Important: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. Click on this link for more information.

Contacts

• Address Natural Resources Conservation Service 1400 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20250 US
• Name: David Baird
• Phone: 816-412-5211
• Email: [email protected]