Biologist (Nursery Manager)

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/05/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has basic requirements required by the Office of Personnel Management. It is recommended to upload any and all transcripts you have to justify this requirement (under grad, grad, etc.). Applicants must meet one of the following before the close of the announcement. Degree: Successful completed a course of study leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree that included a major field of study in biology, ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, botany, chemistry, agriculture, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. -OR- Combination: A combination of education and experience with courses equivalent to a major described above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Note: The quality of the combination of education and experience must be sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and is comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the appropriate field. In addition to courses in the major and related fields, a typical college degree would have included courses that involved analysis, writing, critical thinking, research, etc. These courses would have provided an applicant with skills and abilities sufficient to perform progressively more responsible work in the occupation. Therefore, creditable experience should have demonstrated similarly appropriate skills or abilities needed to perform the work of the occupation. AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to meeting the Basic Education Requirement, to qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 grade level. Specialized experience demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform successfully the duties of this position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: performing native plant material collection activities; performing native plant propagation activities in a greenhouse/nursery setting; conducting vegetation surveys in remote or backcountry locations; coordinating logistics of field work activities, such as scheduling, food purchases, equipment, and transportation; training, instructing, and overseeing others in the use of biological survey data collection equipment and techniques; summarizing data for portions of reports in the form of text, graphs, and charts. You must include hours worked per week. -OR- Education: Successfully completed one full year of graduate level education at an accredited college or university concentrated in a field that is directly related to the work of this position, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, botany, chemistry, agriculture, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that number cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered an academic year of graduate study. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended. You must provide transcripts. -OR- S.A.A.: Requirements for Superior Academic Achievement (S.A.A.). I have completed all the requirements for a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and meet the requirements for S.A.A. based on (1) I am in the upper third of my graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision based on completed courses; OR (2) I have a GPA 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum, or 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 (B+ or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in my major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; OR (3) I am a member in one of the national scholastic honor societies. Degree must be in a field that is directly related to the work of this position, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, botany, chemistry, agriculture, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must provide transcripts. -OR- Combination: An equivalent combination of such education and experience. For example, I have six months of the specialized experience (50% of the experience requirement), 9 semester hours or 14 quarter hours of directly related graduate level college study in an accredited institution (50% of the qualifying education). You must provide transcripts and include hours worked per week. OR MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to meeting the Basic Education Requirement, to qualify for this position at the GS-09 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level. Specialized experience at this level is defined as having 3 out of 4 of the following: using botanical keys, plant association guides, and other technical guides to classify ecological habitats, vegetation community productivity, and land use; interpreting standard procedures and ensuring that collected botanical data is in compliance with established protocols; assisting with training biological science technician personnel to follow established guidelines in order to obtain multi-resource information; and conducting ecological inventories, assessments, and monitoring studies to achieve resource management goals. You must include hours worked per week. -OR- Education: Successfully completed two years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree in an accredited educational institution concentrated in a field that is directly related to the work of this position, such as in biology, ecology, environmental science, natural resource management, botany, chemistry, agriculture, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. Two years of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent two years of full-time study. If that number cannot be obtained from the school, 36 semester hours should be considered two academic years of graduate study. You must provide transcripts. -OR- Combination: An equivalent combination of such education and experience. For example, I have six months of the specialized experience (50% of the experience requirement), and 27 semester hours or 41 quarter hours of appropriate directly related graduate education (50% of the education requirement). You must provide transcripts and include hours worked per week.
This position is located in Grand Canyon National Park, in the Science and Recource Managment Division.