Supervisory Interdisciplinary Planning and Environmental

Full Job Description

About the Position: As Section Chief, the incumbent has independent responsibility for planning, designing, and carrying out various programs, technical studies, and personnel administration.

Recruitment or relocation incentives may be offered to highly qualified candidates. Term Appointment NTE - Position may be filled as a Term Appointment NTE 3 years.

Term appointments may be extended beyond six (6) years, up to eight (8) years. With DoW approval, Term appointments may be extended beyond eight (8) years.

Position may be made permanent without further competition. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience and education requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; when meeting the Basic Requirement with a degree or when coursework is included, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) conducting environmental, cultural resources, or infrastructure studies and preparing detailed reports; AND 2) conducting technical reviews of environmental or cultural resources compliance documents or infrastructure development plans; AND 3) communicating with local, state or federal resources agencies or other stakeholders to resolve issues.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement above using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

In addition to meeting the experience requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the basic education requirements listed below: BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Basic Requirement for 0020 series: A.

Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.

OR B.

Degree and Work Experience: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a field related to community planning such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration and possess at least one-year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner.

OR C.

Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major in one of the disciplines, as shown in A above, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the disciplines, as shown in A above, of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Basic Requirement for 0193 series: A. Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included 3 semester hours each in the following course areas: (1) History of archeology.

(2) Archeology of a major geographical area such as North America or Africa.

(3) Regional archeology, archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area to acquire or develop a foundation for regional specialization for professional development.

(4) Theory and methods of archeology. Methods include, but are not limited to, typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques.

(5) Archeological field school, to provide a basic understanding of theoretical and practical approaches to research design implementation, field preservation techniques, and report preparation by participation in actual field work; AND six semester hours of related course work in: (1) geography, geology, or cultural geography; (2) history, historiography, or historical archeology; (3) environmental studies; (4) scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or (5) surveying; AND archeological field school.

OR B.

Related Curriculum: degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline may be accepted as satisfying in full the educational requirements, provided the curriculum supplied academic course work sufficiently similar to the requirements in A.1 (including archeological field school).

OR C.

Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education or training that provided knowledge equivalent to that described in A above, plus appropriate technical experience or additional education.

OR D. Experience: Four years of archeological work experience that demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology.

The work experience must have included archeology field experience, which may include that gained in an archeological field school.

Field experience should have included a combination of professional experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials.

Applicants with such field experience should, after additional experience under the direction of a higher grade archeologist, be able to demonstrate the ability to be a crew chief, directing the work of others at a single location as a part of a larger archeological project.

Basic Requirement for 0401 series: A.

Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR B.

Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Basic Requirement for 0408 series: A.

Bachelor's degree (or higher 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. Basic Requirement for 0486 series: A.

Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in biological science that included at least 9 semester hours in such wildlife subjects as mammalogy, ornithology, animal ecology, wildlife management, or research courses in the field of wildlife biology; AND at least 12 semester hours in zoology in such subjects as general zoology, invertebrate zoology, vertebrate zoology, comparative anatomy, physiology, genetics, ecology, cellular biology, parasitology, entomology, or research courses in such subjects (excess courses in wildlife biology may be used to meet the zoology requirements where appropriate.); AND at least 9 semester hours in botany or the related plant sciences.

Basic Requirement for 0486 series continued in Education section Major Duties:

• As Section Chief, direct all operational and administrative aspects of the section.
• Plan projects, estimate resource requirements (such as time and budget), and establish priorities.
• Develop performance standards and evaluate employee performance.
• Perform oversight of all studies performed for congressionally authorized projects.
• Plan and execute appropriate studies.