Interdisciplinary (Biologist/Ecologist)(Data Manager)

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/04/2024-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 number of hours worked per week, full-time, or part-time. If you indicate part-time, you MUST indicate the number of hours worked per week so that your qualifying experience can be prorated for credit. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. This is an interdisciplinary position which may be filled in either of the following occupational series: Biologist – 0401 or Ecologist – 0408. To qualify for this position, you must possess one of the following basic qualifications by close of the announcement: Basic Requirements for Biologist, GS-0401: A degree in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position to be filled. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application. -OR- A combination of education and experience that included coursework equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The quality of the combination must demonstrate that you possess the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies required to perform the work of the position and is comparable to that normally acquired through the completion of a full four-year course of study with a major as described above. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application and the hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- Basic Requirements for Ecologist, GS-0408: A degree in biology, or a related field of science underlying ecological research that included at least 30 semester hours in basic and applied biological sciences. These hours must have included at least 9 semester hours in ecology, and 12 semester hours in physical and mathematical sciences. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application. -AND- In addition, 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: Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-07 level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors) that is directly related to the position to be filled. This experience includes activities such as: management of project or research focused data in natural and/or cultural resources; manipulation and synthetization of a wide range of data types (e.g. ecological, physical, bibliographical) in tabular and spatial formats for use in reports, publications, and presentations; scope, plan, develop, test, and implement data management solutions in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams such as scientists, resource managers, and policymakers; use of a range of software and tools relevant to natural and/or cultural resource data collection, management, and analysis (e.g. R, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, QGIS) to meet program needs; development and maintenance of data quality standards and standard operating procedures for various data streams. You must include hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- Education: Two years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a master’s degree or master’s or equivalent graduate degree in a directly related field. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application and the hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- A combination of Education and Specialized Experience: To calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education, divide your number of semester hours in excess of 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) by 18 semester hours (or 27 quarters), or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. To calculate your percentage of experience, divide your months of qualifying specialized experience by 12. Add the two percentages. They must equal at least 100% to qualify using this option. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application and the hours worked per week in your resume. To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level, you must possess one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-09 level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sectors) that is directly related to the position to be filled. This experience includes activities such as: development and implementation of rigorous study design, data collection workflows, data analysis, data management, proper curation, and reporting standards; design, development, and maintenance of database systems to support long-term data management; implementation of standards and workflows to ensure research data and publications are made openly available on authoritative repositories; program languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, R, VBL, C#) for application development or enhancement, automated data management tasks, and queries. You must include hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- Education: At least three years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a directly related field. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application and the hours worked per week in your resume. -OR- A combination of Education and Specialized Experience: To calculate your percentage of qualifying graduate education, divide your number of credit hours in excess of 36 semester hours (or 54 quarter hours) by 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours), or the number your school uses to represent one year of full time graduate academic study. To calculate your percentage of experience, divide your months of qualifying specialized experience by 12. Add the two percentages. They must equal at least 100% to qualify using this option. You must include a copy of your transcripts with your application and the hours worked per week in your resume. Volunteer 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 open to Merit Promotion/Status Candidates and those with certain Special Hiring Authorities under announcement number AK-1537-GLBA-25-12571087-ST. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods. Failure to submit any of the required documentation/information in this positing will result in loss of consideration. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents/information has been submitted.