You will serve as a Supervisory Ecologist with National Park Service. The purpose of this position is to serve as Supervisory Regional Inventory and Monitoring Program Manager in the National Capital Region (NCR). The Incumbent is responsible for supervising and directing the development, implementation, and management of the Inventory and Monitoring Program and region-wide inventories.
Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Exercises the full range of technical and administrative supervisory responsibilities for a staff that includes permanent and temporary personnel.
Serves as principal scientific advisor for the inventory and monitoring of natural resources, where most parks in the region lack sufficient scientific staff to collect, manage, and synthesize scientific information needed to manage park ecosystems.
Leads the development, implementation, and management of an interdisciplinary and complex program within the region to address a wide variety of sensitive park resource management issues of national significance, accomplishing the national goals and objectives for the Inventory and Monitoring (l&M) Program. Identifies l&M needs and develops work plans and schedules, cost estimates, and funding proposals to accomplish program goals.
Collects, organizes, and makes available natural resource data to produce useful program information through analysis, synthesis, and modeling and summarizes information for use by scientists, managers, planners, park staff, cooperators, and partners.
This position does not allow substituting education for experience. 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 $121785 – $158322/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-11-16.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
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