Seasonal Biological Science Technician (Plants)

Full Job Description

These positions may be filled for a seasonal period, up to 1560 hours, but can vary due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding.

Anticipated Entry on Duty: April-July 2026 For more park(s) information, please visit find a park.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-03/04/2026-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.

To qualify for this position at the GS-08 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 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 overseeing nursery work that required the growing and maintenance of native plants in a controlled environment; leading a revegetation crew, planning and executing vegetation research or monitoring, including quality control/assessment, data summary and reporting on a project; leading vegetation inventory or monitoring requiring identification to sub-species of native vegetation; leading an invasive plant management crew.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

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.

ICTAP/CTAP Statement: Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special prior­ity selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection.

Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies.

Major Duties:

Monitor native or nonnative plant communities including identifying plants to species, identifying phenological stage, canopy cover, and collecting site characteristic data.

Select site locations, restoration techniques, sampling techniques, and appropriate equipment for native plant restoration projects.

Determine selection of species, locations, and/or methods for collection.

Provide instruction and/or oversight in ecological restoration, exotic plant management, or vegetation studies principles and techniques.

Instruction may have been in plant identification, proper seed collection, soil stabilization, planting, manual or chemical control techniques, and/or mulching and site protection.

Navigate off-trail using maps and Global Positioning System (GPS), hiking through rough terrain, to locate field sites.