You will serve as a Biologist with the National Park Service at Grand Canyon National Park. The biologist is engaged in the study, inventory, monitoring, restoration, and management of a broad range of natural resources.
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 for approximately January through mid-December, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year. Non-pay status 12/18-12/31.
Some of the major duties you will perform at the GS-07/09 include but are not limited to the following: Leading fieldwork in front country and remote backcountry settings and under challenging conditions in a safe and efficient manner. Training crew members in appropriate data collection, entry, and verification methods. Leads and/or collaborates with partners on projects to manage invasive plants and restore native plant communities.
Uses chainsaws, water pumps, herbicide application equipment, and a variety of hand tools to manage invasive plants and/or restore native plant communities. Write reports and interpret monitoring results for natural resource managers. Some of the major duties you will perform at the GS-09 include but are not limited to the following: Provide verbal briefings to others to convey information related to habitat restoration including invasive plant management.
Utilize technical methods and procedures and management of biological resources practices with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Wilderness Act, and the Endangered Species Act, to design, coordinate, and execute field work. Use field, geospatial, and other data (e.g., environmental variables) to interpret vegetation data, trends and interrelationships and review scientific literature to put those results into context.
Download, enter, and process vegetation data from mobile data collection units into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS, ArcPro, ArcGIS online (AGOL), and/or R (or similar systems). Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
This position has a mandatory education requirement. 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.
For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications
This position is with National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $50460 – $80243/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-30.
This is a You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
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