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Position Title
Supervisory Fish Biologist
Agency
Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Announcement Number
R2-18-10272523-LLP-MP Opens in new window
Open Period
Monday, July 30, 2018 to Friday, August 24, 2018
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Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans’ Preference? (limit characters)
Assessment 1
Basic Education Requirement (limit characters)
For each question, choose the response that best describes your experience and training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provided in your resume or application and information provided by your references. (limit characters)
1. Basic Education Requirement for the GS-0482 series (limit characters)
Additional Qualification (limit characters)
For each question, choose the response that best describes your experience and training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provided in your resume or application and information provided by your references. (limit characters)
2. Addition Qualification requirements for the GS-0482-13 grade level (limit characters)
Skill in the application of effective management, planning, and supervisory techniques to provide support, guidance, and motivation to the staff. (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
3. Lead and supervise professional, technical, and non-professional personnel in connection with fish hatchery management
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4. Plan and supervise all hatchery operations such as pre-spawning, spawning operations, fish rearing, and production and distribution
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5. Motivate and mentor subordinate employees
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6. Lead and provide guidance to a diverse staff of both professional and technical personnel
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7. Carry out supervisory and managerial duties attendant to an office dealing with complex resource issues and diverse publics and partners
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Ability to administer a large and varied program of work. (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
8. Manage staff, budget, facilities, property, and outside resources such as volunteers
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9. Establish and continuously evaluate program priorities and activities
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10. Modify or develop new approaches
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11. Administer and direct budget development and administration
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12. Apply the most efficient fish rearing techniques and procedures for a variety of warm-water, cool-water, and/or cold water fish
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Ability to maintain operations of a complex fish production facility. (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
13. Apply advanced concepts, principles, and practices of natural resources and environmental laws to resolve complex problems within short timeframes
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14. Coordinate programs, projects, or operational activities with other facilities within a large, multi-hatchery complex
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15. Develop, execute and operate a complex budget that comes from different sources
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16. Interact as the agency representative with individuals/groups on controversial and complex biological or environmental issues regarding threatened, endangered or sensitive aquatic species
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17. Manage a complex workload involving multiple functions and competing priorities to develop projects and meet program objectives
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Knowledge and experience in captive rearing, propagation, distribution and coordination of a variety of  listed and recreational aquatic species (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
18. Develop recommendations regarding changes to a fish production plan based on emerging needs of threatened aquatic species, scientific evaluation of propagation potential, funding analysis, and probability of implementation success
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19. Review operations pertaining to the protection, conservation and propagation of fish and make recommendations and corrective actions to enhance fish hatchery management
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20. Care for a variety of endangered, native, and recreational fishes in captive rearing facilities
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21. Work in close coordination with tribal nations, state departments, and other federal agencies in the development and compliance of annual production plans and comprehensive hatchery management plans
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Ability to communicate technical issues and concepts to a variety of audiences with varying expertise, points of view, and background. (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
22. Communicate clearly with biologists, managers and peer professionals
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23. Communicate complex issues dealing with native species conservation to the general public
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24. Communicate ideas and other information to diverse individuals and groups to gain support and to maintain positive working relationships
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25. Coordinate activities with other agencies and organizations
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