Job opening: Biological Science Technician
Salary: $44 910 - 64 879 per year
Published at: Dec 20 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is in Inventory and Monitoring Data Networks.
Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately 11 months, and you will be in a non-pay status from June 1 to June 14 each year.
Open to the first 35 applicants or until Jan 3, 2025 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.
Duties
The major duties of the Science Communication Technician position include, but are not limited to, the following:
A part of a team of 3-4 members, collect natural resource monitoring data (plants, soils, wildlife, aquatic ecology) from remote sites across national park units in AZ, NM and TX . Carefully follow established protocols to ensure data are collected to program science and safety standards.
In a team setting, synthesize and communicate monitoring results for technical (park managers, partners, scientists) and non-technical (interpreters, educators, and the general public) audiences through briefs, summaries, web articles, social media posts and other NPS information systems.
Using standard statistical and mathematical analysis techniques, summarize and describe natural resource monitoring results using established methods in published monitoring protocols.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/03/2025-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.
To qualify for this position at the GS-06 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-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of the following: 1) executing field studies on plants, animals, and aquatic resources; 2) safely and efficiently work within a field crew in backcountry settings, often under arduous conditions (steep terrain, weather extremes, long hikes, camping) on multi-day field hitches; 3) summarizing simple ecological datasets using standard descriptive statistics and mathematical reasoning; 4) contributing to scientific reporting via short summaries, briefs, and routine reports on resource condition; and 5) copy editing scientific reports, briefs, and other media to ensure they are accurate, clear, and have suitable graphics to convey key information to resource managers. You must include hours per week worked.
To qualify for this position at the GS-07 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-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of the following: 1) organizing and leading field crews in the collection of natural resource monitoring data in backcountry settings, including arranging logistics, scheduling, and ensuring efforts are conducted safely and efficiently; 2) providing advice, assistance, and training to lower graded employees and volunteers; 3) authors original short communications products (briefs, social media posts, web pages, reports) to effectively convey resource condition and monitoring findings to non-technical audiences, including the general public; 4) edits written and digital content to ensure they are accessible to all audiences and at a suitable level of detail and voice; and 5) as part of a team, uses coding approaches to explore monitoring datasets using multivariate, covariate analysis, and graphical approaches.
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.
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.
Education
There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement.
Contacts
- Address Inventory and Monitoring Data Networks
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
US
- Name: Erica Medina
- Email: [email protected]
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