About the role
Duties
Duties include: Assist professionals and partners in agricultural field restoration activities related to the agricultural special use program to include calibrating, operating and maintaining tractors, bush hog, skid steer mulcher, no-till drills, UTV, chainsaw and other equipment as required. Assist in the removal of encroached woody vegetation and planting cool season or native warm season grasses. Serves as point of contact and provide logistical support and area orientation to multiple contractors, vendors and cooperating natural resource managers and scientists. Collect and organize field data; make field observations of natural resource conditions to include vegetation identification of native plants and invasive-exotic plant species; implement control procedures of nonnative plants, and assist in research and survey activities related to native and nonnative species to include feral hog monitoring and/or eradication. Utilize a variety of computer programs to compile, reduce, store, retrieve, and report data and other resource management information, including ArcMap and GIS. Prepare a wide variety of correspondence, internal reports, and other documents from information obtained from field work, data collection, files and other sources. Assist with prescribed fire operations. On a routine basis be able to lift at least 50 lbs. Will be subject to medical examination and work capacity test for arduous positions. Attend training sessions as needed.
Area Information: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is located in the heart of the Ozark Highlands of Missouri, in the southeastern portion of the state on the Current and Jack's Fork Rivers. The park features 134 miles of crystal clear, spring-fed rivers that are flanked by scenic bluffs and numerous springs and caves. Outdoor recreational activities abound and include canoeing, "tubing", fishing, hunting, swimming, and hiking. The duty station for this position is Van Buren, Missouri. Limited shopping, medical, and dental are available. For more shopping, medical, dental, and entertainment Poplar Bluff, Missouri is approximately 40 miles east of Van Buren. Summers are hot and humid and winters are normally mild. For more information about the Park visit our website: www.nps.gov/ozar. For more information about Missouri visit our state website: www.visitmo.com.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement, Wednesday, June 07, 2017 . Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sectors. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for review on OPM's website at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications. To be eligible for this position, you must possess the qualifying specialized experience and/or education as described in the occupational/assessment questionnaire and as outlined below.
QUALIFICATIONS for GS-05:
Experience - One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level in the federal service is required for this position. Specialized experience demonstrates that you are able to perform successfully the duties of this position. Examples of qualifying natural resource specialized experience include: may include operating personal farm equipment; conducting field surveys in remote locations to document and assess environmental or natural resource conditions, animal presence, abundance, reproduction, management issues, and population dynamics; conducting ecological/resource assessments or inventories or management activities or other similar biological resource management and assessment activities using established protocols and standard scientific equipment; exotic plant management; and prescribed or wildland fire experience. Experience may have been gained in the private or public sector and may have been paid or unpaid, 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). -OR-
Education - Successful completion of a full 4-year of study with course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major study or 24 semester hours of course work in a related field of scientific or technical study, such as in biology, chemistry, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, botany, physics, agriculture, or mathematics, or in wildlife ecology, wildlife management, wildlife biology, or other directly-related subject matter. (At least 6 semester hours of this coursework was in biology or botany-related subjects.) PLEASE NOTE: If you are using education to qualify you must document your course work and/or degree completed in your resume or other application materials you submit. You must submit a copy of your transcripts or a complete list of college courses taken that identifies for each course the college or university, semester or quarter hours earned, grade received, and date completed. If you are qualifying based on education and you do not submit specific course work information as described previously, your application will be rated not qualified for consideration. (A copy of your official transcripts will be required before entrance on duty, if selected) -OR-
Combination of specialized experience and education: Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. If you are qualifying based on education, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts.
All qualifications must be met before the closing date of this announcement. If you rate yourself as qualified for this position, and your resume and supplemental documents do not support that, you may be considered ineligible for the position or your score will be lowered. If you rate yourself such that you receive an automated rating of ineligible, we will not review your resume and supporting documents further.
Education
To demonstrate you are qualified based upon education, you MUST provide a copy of your transcripts. Official transcripts will be requested if you are selected. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an acccredited US education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a US accredited college or university. For further information on the evaluation of foreign education, refer to http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
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