This position is located at Virgin Islands National Park, in the Resource Management Division Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) rate of 11.88% is authorized.
GS-5 Implements established natural resource management projects using standardized procedures. Collects, organizes, and quality-controls field data; performs routine testing and preliminary assessments. Makes field observations, evaluates resource conditions, identifies issues, and shares findings with specialists. Assists in drafting reports, plans, and guidelines; conducts literature reviews and creates data visualizations. Provides logistical support and technical information for contract or partner scientists; resolves routine operational issues. Installs, operates, maintains, and inventories equipment; ensures quality assurance and orders supplies. Trains and supports students and volunteers in resource management or field research. Uses computer programs to manage, analyze, and report data; maintains digital databases and occasionally presents information. GS-6 Implements projects by following procedures; collects, organizes, tests, and quality-checks field data, adjusting methods as needed. Conducts field observations, evaluates conditions, identifies issues, and provides findings and recommendations to specialists. Assists in preparing reports, plans, and guidelines; performs literature reviews, method descriptions, and data visualization. Provides logistical support and site orientation for scientists; ensures quality control and resolves operational challenges. Installs, operates, maintains, inventories, and calibrates equipment; monitors quality assurance and orders supplies. Trains and assists students, conservation assistants, and volunteers. Uses computer programs to compile, analyze, store, and report data; maintains databases for research and monitoring. Shares program information with employees and visitors; may present interpretive programs. GS-7 Organizes, schedules, and carries out diverse projects, selecting sites, methods, equipment, and logistics. Collects, organizes, and quality-checks field data; performs analyses and records findings. Conducts field observations, evaluates conditions, interprets trends, and recommends management actions. Prepares draft reports, literature reviews, method descriptions, data analyses, charts, and recommendations; contributes to planning documents. Provides logistical support and technical information for scientists; ensures quality control and resolves challenges. Installs, operates, maintains, inventories, and calibrates monitoring and laboratory equipment. Offers training and guidance to students, assistants, and volunteers. Uses computer programs to manage, analyze, store, and report data; maintains databases and shares information. GS-8 Adapts, modifies, and develops techniques for research, inventory, monitoring, restoration, and management. Performs biological resource management studies using specialized equipment; installs, operates, maintains, inventories, and calibrates gear. Collaborates with managers, scientists, GIS specialists, and partners to integrate data into national databases. Participates in research phases, conducts complex technical tasks, and contributes to planning. Makes field observations, evaluates conditions, interprets trends and relationships among variables. Resolves technical issues, researches literature, collects and verifies samples, compiles data, and conducts statistical analyses. Maintains chemical inventories, prepares solutions, and ensures safe disposal of waste. Provides program information, maintains workspaces, and may serve as COR or ATR. GS-9 Designs and develops project components, selecting methods and procedures to meet objectives. Participates in planning, implementing, and interpreting research; assumes technical responsibility for experiments. Operates, maintains, calibrates, and modifies specialized equipment; designs sampling/testing procedures; manages inventories and procurement. Collects, prepares, verifies, and analyzes samples; keeps records; compiles and statistically analyzes data; manages monitoring datasets. Supports data management by designing GPS data dictionaries, organizing spatial inventories, and maintaining system compatibility. Prepares scientific manuscripts, reports, and publications; manages submissions and imagery; provides comments on planning documents. Works closely with managers, scientists, GIS specialists, and personnel to integrate information into national databases and support plans. Provides logistical and technical support for contractors and cooperators; assists with planning, schedules, cost estimates, and proposals; may serve as COR or ATR; shares program information.
QUALIFICATIONS SECTION CONTINUED.......... To qualify for this position at the GS-08 grade level: Specialized Experience Requirement: you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: Independently organizing, scheduling and executing natural resource management projects from several courses of action, collecting and organizing field data, making field observations, evaluating observed conditions and problems, interpreting variables, trends, correlations and interrelationships among data and conditions, recommending management actions based on prescribed guidelines, preparing draft project reports, and providing logistical support and area orientation for contract or cooperating scientists. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion of two full years (36 semester/54 quarter hours) of graduate level education or a master's degree with a major study directly related to this position. Examples of directly related education are biology, botany, range science, forestry, ecology, environmental science, zoology, fisheries, animal husbandry, natural resource management or other directly related fields. You must include transcripts. -OR- To qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level: Specialized Experience Requirement: you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-08 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: adapting, modifying or developing new techniques and/or procedures to satisfy the needs of research, inventory, monitoring, restoration projects, performing a variety of complex technical duties, in a laboratory, field, or similar location, independently initiates action to resolve or correct technical difficulties and results, tabulating, statistically analyzing and summarizing research data. You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion of two full years (36 semester/54 quarter hours) of graduate level education or a master's degree with a major study directly related to this position. Examples of directly related education are biology, botany, range science, forestry, ecology, environmental science, zoology, fisheries, animal husbandry, natural resource management or other directly related fields. 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. You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience. Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable. A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted. Non-submission may result in being rated not qualified for the position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work. Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs. Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S. Department of Education. https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualification Probationary Period: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated. This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
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