Wildlife Biologist 9-12 - Rose Lake

Full Job Description

Wildlife Biologist 9-P11
The primary functions of this position are to serve as the local state wildlife expert for the Division and perform a wide variety of professional wildlife management activities including planning, implementation, monitoring, and analyzing wildlife habitat projects on public and private lands within the specified work unit (Ingham, Clinton, Shiawassee, and Gratiot Counties within the Capital Area Unit). The biologist position will oversee the implementation of various wildlife species and state property plans. A critical aspect of this position is to focus on managing healthy and sustainable wildlife populations including chronic wasting disease and tuberculosis surveillance within deer populations. This position is also responsible for state land administration and facility management on Wildlife Division administered lands. These activities include, but are not limited to, land transaction reviews, survey requests, resolving trespass, developing management plans, administering timber sales, and recommending acquisition or disposal of state lands. This position also provides strategic level planning for maintenance of all buildings, roads, gates, boundary signs, dams, dikes, pumps, and other infrastructure associated with State Game Areas in the assigned area. This position will utilize the document "Guiding Principles and Strategies (GPS)" for setting strategic direction in planning efforts and in setting work priorities.

Position Description

Wildlife Biologist 12
This position has solely responsible for all wildlife habitat management, wildlife population surveys, and wildlife population management on both private and public lands for the assigned geographic area (Ingham, Clinton, Shiawassee, and Gratiot Counties). These activities include acting as the lead worker in the assigned area planning and overseeing the development of work plans, management priorities, work item proposal (WIPs), private land activities, and population surveys by staff in the assigned area. This position is also responsible for all aspects of state land administration and facility management on Wildlife Division administered lands. These activities include, but are not limited to, land transaction reviews, survey requests, resolving trespass, developing management plans, administering timber sales, and recommending acquisition or disposal of state lands. This position also provides strategic level planning for maintenance of all buildings, roads, gates, boundary signs, dams, dikes, pumps, and other infrastructure associated with State Game Areas in the assigned area. This position will utilize the document "Guiding Principles and Strategies (GPS)" for setting strategic direction in planning efforts and in setting work priorities.

Position Description

Requirements

Education
Possession of a bachelor's degree in natural resource science or biological science with at least 8 semester (12 term) credits in wildlife biology and 16 semester (24 term) credits in one or a combination of the following: botany, ecology, ecosystem management, entomology, natural resources GIS applications, mammalogy, ornithology, wildlife management, zoology, conservation biology, human dimensions of fish and wildlife management, evolutionary biology, forest resources, environmental science, or natural resources law and policy.

Experience

Wildlife Biologist 9
No specific type or amount is required.

Wildlife Biologist 10
One year of professional experience carrying out wildlife biology assignments equivalent to a Wildlife Biologist 9.

Wildlife Biologist P11
Two years of professional experience carrying out wildlife biology assignments equivalent to a Wildlife Biologist, including one year equivalent to a Wildlife Biologist 10.

Wildlife Biologist 12
Three years of professional experience carrying out wildlife biologist assignments equivalent to a Wildlife Biologist, including one year equivalent to a Wildlife Biologist P11 or a Research Biologist P11 with wildlife emphasis.

Additional Information

Please attach a cover letter, resume, official college transcripts, and three professional references to your application.

Information provided in your application, resume, cover letter, transcripts, writing assignment and any other documentation provided will be used to verify responses to the supplemental questions.

Unsupported responses may not be considered further.

For those candidates selected for an interview, we plan to score the cover letter and the resume for grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, format, and content.

Candidates selected for interview will need to prepare and present a 10 minute presentation as part of the interview. More details will be provided upon scheduling of the interview.

If applicable, you must attach an electronic and/or scanned copy of your official college/university transcripts.

For our purposes, "Official Transcripts" must contain the college/university name and address, the degree conferred and date granted, coursework completed (especially if no degree granted), and the Registrar's signature and/or seal.Your application for any position does not guarantee that you will be contacted by the Department/Agency for further consideration.

Only those applicants interviewed will be notified of the results.

View the job specification at: https://www.michigan.gov/mdcs/-/media/Project/Websites/mdcs/JOBSPECS/W/WildlifeBiologist.pdf