Biological Science Technician

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-01/03/2025-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying 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 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. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-06 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of the following: 1) executing field studies on plants, animals, and aquatic resources; 2) safely and efficiently work within a field crew in backcountry settings, often under arduous conditions (steep terrain, weather extremes, long hikes, camping) on multi-day field hitches; 3) summarizing simple ecological datasets using standard descriptive statistics and mathematical reasoning; 4) contributing to scientific reporting via short summaries, briefs, and routine reports on resource condition; and 5) copy editing scientific reports, briefs, and other media to ensure they are accurate, clear, and have suitable graphics to convey key information to resource managers. You must include hours per week worked. To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience must include all of the following: 1) organizing and leading field crews in the collection of natural resource monitoring data in backcountry settings, including arranging logistics, scheduling, and ensuring efforts are conducted safely and efficiently; 2) providing advice, assistance, and training to lower graded employees and volunteers; 3) authors original short communications products (briefs, social media posts, web pages, reports) to effectively convey resource condition and monitoring findings to non-technical audiences, including the general public; 4) edits written and digital content to ensure they are accessible to all audiences and at a suitable level of detail and voice; and 5) as part of a team, uses coding approaches to explore monitoring datasets using multivariate, covariate analysis, and graphical approaches. 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. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies". Experience listed as full-time will be credited at 40 hours per week.