- Position Title
- Social Scientist
- Agency
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Announcement Number
- R9-23-11892403-AMS-DE Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, May 26, 2023 to Monday, June 12, 2023
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from the agency hiring for this position?
If yes, confirm:
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
If yes, confirm:
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
3.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from a position in a Federal agency other than the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent. For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent. For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
4.
Are you a U.S. citizen or national?
Preferences
1.
Would you accept a term appointment?
Assessment 1
Individual Occupational Requirements for the 101 Series
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.
1.
Choose the response that best describes how your education and/or experience meets the requirements for the 0101 Occupational Series.
Minimum Qualifications GS-13
2.
Choose the response that best describes your qualifications for the GS-13 grade level.
Ability to coordinate work unit efforts with other internal and external offices, represent these efforts to key individuals and groups outside the immediate work unit, as well as serve as spokesperson and social science subject matter experts.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
3.
Serve as a key senior member of a growing human dimensions community of practice across the federal or private organizations, representing the organization and providing social science expertise.
4.
Work with leadership and others to develop and implement a plan to integrate social science into strategic planning efforts, actionable recommendations, and programmatic priorities.
5.
Contribute to a team of social scientists coordinating with internal and external partners, sharing social science subject matter expertise on matters pertaining to social safeguards and conservation.
Skill in integrating social science and natural science concepts and principles to independently develop communication materials and products that address complex relationships between people and the wildlife and their habitats.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
6.
Communicate social science matters both to conservation leaders including verbal presentations and written briefings aimed at informing and influencing decisions and policy.
7.
Integrate social science to address complex natural resource management issues including social safeguarding of communities in developing countries.
8.
Coordinate the human dimension aspects of international wildlife conservation projects with colleagues in order to achieve project objectives.
9.
Apply strategic communication techniques such as framing, persuasion, storytelling, and awareness building to communicate technical social science to international conservation practitioners.
10.
Work with international wildlife conservation practitioners or stakeholders to identify shared priorities or evaluation needs.
11.
Develop tools, resources, or activities to communicate human dimensions international wildlife conservation to a variety of stakeholders, including natural resource practitioners, managers and supervisors, senior management, U.S. Government partners and others.
Knowledge of and skill in applying qualitative and quantitative social science principles, practices, and techniques to better understand how human factors may impact wildlife or other natural resource management.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
12.
Use conceptual maps, logic models or other systematic processes to plan, design or evaluate program goals and objectives.
13.
Understand methods for designing evaluations that can be used by international conservation practitioners, including program officers and policy specialists, as well as supervisors and senior managers.
14.
Identify research needs and data-gaps, develop programming to fill those gaps and present the information to team members and management to influence the direction human dimensions of international wildlife conservation.
Knowledge of conservation social science concepts, principles, and practices in order to lead a team of social scientists, identify research needs and provide technical support for priority agency issues.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
15.
Apply social science theory and methods to address international wildlife conservation using both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
16.
Coordinate data collection for social science surveys of stakeholders and/or employees to inform international wildlife conservation.
17.
Apply statistical analysis methods and procedures used in the human dimensions of conservation or social psychology field to analyze and interpret data.
18.
Develop policies, standard operating procedures, memoranda, and other guidance documents pertaining to social safeguards and social science for organization-wide dissemination.
Skill in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of conservation and natural resource practitioners, program managers, and decision-making officials.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
19.
Identify and engage expected and non-traditional stakeholders and encourage initial and on-going participation in integration of social science principles in conservation planning, program development, and policies.
20.
Collaborate with relevant conservation organizations, U.S. Government departments and agencies, nongovernmental organizations and state agencies to integrate human dimensions of international wildlife conservation into conservation programming and partnerships.
21.
Convene stakeholders, including indigenous or local communities and international partners who represent diverse and often polarized views of international conservation interventions, to hold moderated discussions with the goal of finding common ground and shared buy-in for conservation activities.