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Rangeland Management Specialist

USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
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Notes for applicants:

Applications must be submitted through the announcement on USAJobs.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/824915200

Locations Negotiable within State of Nevada: You can communicate/negotiate the location availability during the interview stage.

The job is open to:

  • Current or former competitive service federal employees
  • Veterans
  • Current or former term or temporary federal employees at a land or base management agency
  • Federal employees who meet the definition of a “surplus” or “displaced” employee
  • Military spouses

 

Job Details

This position will serve as a field office planner covering multiple offices within the state providing leadership and expertise in all facets of rangeland resources management. This is a technical position.

Duties

  • Consults with district conservationists and other principal staff on planning, developing, and maintaining an effective, technically sound rangeland management program within designate field offices.
  • Participates with other Field office staff specialists in coordinating and correlating the rangeland management program with the other Service programs
  • Provides technical assistance to Service personnel in the development of conservation plans with operators of exceptionally large or complex ranching operations.

 

Qualifications

Please refer to the job announcement for additional information regarding the substitution of education and/or experience at the different grade levels.

Time-in-grade: Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirement of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled (e.g., one year at the GS-09 grade level for consideration for the GS-11 grade level; one year at the GS-11 grade level for consideration for the GS-12 grade level). (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. No Award or General Adjustment SF-50s will be accepted).

Basic Requirement: 

  1. Degree: a bachelor's or higher degree in range management; or a related discipline that included at least 42 semester hours in a combination of the plant, animal, and soil sciences, and natural resources management, as follows:
    • Range Management -- At least 18 semester hours of course work in range management, including courses in such areas as basic principles of range management, range plants, range ecology, range inventories and studies, range improvements, and ranch or rangeland planning.
    • Directly Related Plant, Animal, and Sil Sciences -- At least 15 semester hours of directly related courses in the plant, animal, and soil sciences, including at least one course in each of these three scientific areas, i.e., plant, animal, and soil sciences. Courses in such areas as plant taxonomy, plant physiology, plant ecology, animal nutrition, livestock production, and soil morphology or soil classification are acceptable.
    • Related Resurce Management Studies -- At least 9 semester hurs of course work in related resource management subjects, including courses in such areas as wildlife management, watershed management, natural resource or agricultural economics, forestry, agronomy, forages, and outdoor recreation management.

In addition to meeting one of the Basic Requirements listed above, applicants must meet the following Minimum Qualifications Requirement to be considered:
 

To qualify for the GS-11:

Specialized Experience: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level or higher in Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. This experience must include the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. Examples of specialized experience include: 

  • Experience planning and coordinating a range conservation and pasture management program;
  • Providing guidance, assistance, and training to field and/or area office personnel to ensure that conservation plans on cooperating farms and ranches provide for the application of technically accurate and adequate practices and measures including, but not limited to planned grazing systems brush management, where appropriate, provides information relative to various types and species of plants, and their respective role and response in the grazing system; and
  • Consulting and advising ranchers and farmers on resources.

 

To qualify for the GS-12: 

  • Specialized Experience: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level or higher in Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. This experience requires the knowledge of a wide range of rangeland management principles, concepts, and theories sufficient to perform duties concerning the development and implementation of multiple-use rangeland management plans. Examples of specialized experience include:
    • Lead, plan, and coordinate a range conservation and pasture management program;
    • Serve as technical advisor to private land livestock producers; and
    • Develop technical standards and specifications for resource conservation.