Fish and Wildlife Biologist

Quick Facts

• Role: Fish and Wildlife Biologist (term appointment)

• Focus: Habitat restoration, private land conservation, and fish and wildlife habitat management planning

Description

Serve as a Fish and Wildlife Biologist supporting habitat restoration across watersheds, focus areas, and ecosystem priorities. You will provide technical assistance, coordinate landowner and partner activities, help secure permits/funding, develop Private Landowner Agreements, and provide construction oversight and monitoring. You will also contribute to strategic planning, management plan development, and reporting for conservation programs.

Responsibilities

• Support habitat restoration projects: technical assistance, landowner contacts, feasibility determinations, permit planning, funding support, Private Landowner Agreements (PLAs), contractor interaction, construction oversight, and monitoring of habitat improvements

• Promote and support Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs and conservation practices for private landowners

• Assist with strategic planning documents to identify focal areas and species using socioeconomic information to target landowners and build relationships

• Develop annual and long-range goals, objectives, plans, and budgets for watersheds and ecosystem priorities; create annual work plans and program schedules; prepare and manage financial assistance packages

• Compile data for reports and documentation required by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) program and for input into tracking systems

• Prepare management plans to preserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife habitat; coordinate with experts and review plans affecting fishery and wildlife resources (e.g., fire management, moist soil management, grazing management, wetland restoration/management, water quality/quantity, forest management, grassland restoration/management)

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship or National status

• Background investigation with favorable adjudication

• Selective Service registration for males born after 12/31/1959

• E-Verify successful employment verification

• Maintain a valid driver’s license

• Direct deposit participation required

• Successful completion of a 1-year probationary period

Minimum Qualifications (GS-11)

• Specialized experience equivalent to GS-09 (1 full year) including: landowner/federal-state-local liaison for habitat restoration; development of annual and long-range watershed/focus area/ecosystem plans and budgets; identifying/designing/conducting habitat improvement projects on privately-owned lands emphasizing stream, wetland, riparian, and upland restoration and enhancement (include hours per week worked)

• OR 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D./doctoral degree in a relevant discipline (submit transcripts)

• OR a qualifying combination of graduate education and experience (include hours per week and transcripts)

• Resume must include full-time/part-time status (and hours per week) for experience credit; transcripts must be provided when using education

Benefits

Comprehensive U.S. federal benefits package (eligibility depends on position type and schedule).