FISH AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/27/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted.

An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Minimum Qualification Requirements: To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications: Basic Educational Requirement AND Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying.

Basic Educational Requirements: In addition to the specialized experience requirements for this position, you must meet at least one of the following: A. Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must submit transcripts. -OR- B.

Combination of education and experience: course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. -AND- Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: 1) Participates in habitat restoration projects benefiting wildlife on privately-owned lands, including planning and design, funding, landowner agreements, and monitoring 2) Promotes, establishes, and maintains cooperative, working relationships with and provides technical assistance to a wide variety of partners and stakeholders 3) Compiles data and information for reports and other documents required by the USFWS conservation delivery programs and enters these in tracking systems.

1. Acts as an expert and central point of contact for conservation projects and partnerships, demonstrating knowledge of theory, principles and methods of fish and wildlife biology and familiarity with habitat conservation/restoration programs. 5) Assesses, evaluates, and monitors programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance. You must include hours per week worked.

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.

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: As a Senior Private Lands Biologist, develops partnerships with private landowners and other external partners; develops habitat restoration projects at a landscape scale; and participates in the development of State and Regional program related policy, goals and objectives.

Provides landscape scale leadership and promotion of the PFW program with local, state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, other Service programs, and media. Develops statewide PFW Strategic Plans, identifying geographic focus areas and focal species, associated plans and initiatives, habitat strategies and major partners to accomplish statewide and regional objectives.

Works closely with the Natural Resources Conservation Service on coordination of Farm Bill activities on private lands that will benefit threatened and endangered species and migratory birds, and consultation to maintain compliance with applicable federal laws.

Works with National, State and local conservation organizations to develop partnerships that leverage Service resources for habitat work, and develops MOUs or Cooperative Agreements with partner organizations for approval by the appropriate Service official, to implement joint funding efforts and habitat initiatives.

Represents the Service at public meetings concerning private land conservation issues, including those that are controversial and that have significant impact on resources, agricultural or business, or have strong political involvement. Facilitates resolution of controversial issues at the state level.

Conducts quality control reviews on accomplishment reporting through the various databases (i.e.HabITS, etc.) to ensure stations are adequately reporting accomplishments and activities; coordinates budgets, contracts, grants, and agreements for conservation actions; and responsible for project management and team coordination, when applicable.

Trains, mentors, and coordinates work efforts between team members and other private lands staff in the state; plans the work to be accomplished, sets and adjusts priorities, and deadlines; schedules, assigns, and directs the work within the scope of the supervisor's expectations, and provides input to work performance; ensures projects meet scope and timelines outlined by the program.