Student Trainee (Range Management)

Duties

• Provide a career-oriented introduction to the background, philosophy, concepts, and scope of the Natural Resources Conservation Service Range Management Programs and a practical understanding of the policies of the employing organization.
• Assists in program and conservation planning for a variety of rangeland management practices such as terraces, diversions, waterways, farm drainage systems, and others.
• Assists in gathering and assembling preliminary data for use in developing and applying conservation plans.
• Assists with or performs a wide variety of rangeland management duties such as maintaining accurate field notes, preliminary drafting and sketch work.
• Supports the responsibility of recording of land features, assembling maps and aerial photographs, identifying and classifying plants, and other related work.
• Receives training in the principles, concepts, work processes, and regulations of one or more functional areas of Range Management and Biological Sciences.
• As training advances and proficiency is demonstrated, work assignment are increasingly more demanding, and are designed to provide experience in a variety of activities.
• Receives formal and on-the-job training in OPM, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation Service policies, rules, regulations, and procedures
• Is instructed on the use of personal computers, and file and data management.