Biological Science Technician

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/20/2024-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. QUALITY RANKING FACTOR: You must possess a current California Pesticide Applicators License, if not you will need to obtain a Nevada Pesticide Applicators License within 6 months of entering on duty. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-08): Must have at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Conducting surveys and control work for invasive plants using herbicide applications or participated in native plant restoration programs. In carrying out this work, I followed established protocols and recorded data using computer software (such as Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, ArcGIS, Arc Field Map, AGOL, or other comparable Geospatial Mapping or data software programs). You must include your resume with hours worked per week annotated. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE (GS-09): Must have at least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-08 grade level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: Performing biological science tasks common to natural resource management (e.g.: collecting and organizing field data, conducting vegetation inventory and monitoring programs for a variety of species and communities). Coordinating, leading, administering and executing a wide variety of field techniques pertaining to rare and exotic plant management. Plant identification, using plant keys. Conducting field surveys to document and assess plant presence, abundance, reproduction, management issues, population dynamics and climate conditions using established protocols and use of standard scientific equipment (such as GPS collections devises, electronic tablets, smartphones). Following established protocols; and managing and summarizing vegetation, and/or climate data using computer software. You must include your resume with hours worked per week annotated. -OR- EDUCATION (GS-09): Must have successfully completed 2 full years of graduate education or a master’s degree that is directly related to the work of the position (e.g.: plant biology, ecology, botany, forestry, agriculture, etc.). You must include your official transcripts within your application. -OR- COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION (GS-09): I have an equivalent combination of education and experience. EXAMPLE: Possess 6 months of specialized experience at the GS-08 grade level (50% of experience requirement) plus completion of 1 year of related graduate education (50% of qualifying education) equals 100%. You must include your resume with hours worked per week annotated and you must include your official transcripts within your application. 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.
This position is located in Death Valley, California. The incumbent will independently develop and/or design various aspects of research, inventory, monitoring, restoration projects, and/or management and manipulation of biological resources on the basis of overall objectives of the park. This position will also contribute to the planning of various steps in experiment or project and to interpretation and documentation of findings.