- Position Title
- Ecologist/Botanist
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Announcement Number
- HQMP-25-12658287-EG Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, January 2, 2025 to Monday, January 6, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Area of Consideration: Current BLM Employee - Do you meet the following eligibility?
- I am a current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service AND the highest grade level I have held on a permanent basis is lower than the full performance level of the position being announced.
2.
Current BLM Employee: Do you meet any of the following eligibilities?
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
- I am a current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the Competitive Service at the same grade level as the full performance level of the position being announced
- I am a current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the Competitive Service at a higher grade level than the full performance level of the position being announced
- I am a current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the Competitive Service serving in a position with a full performance level equivalent to or higher than the full performance level of the position being announced
- I am a current Bureau of Land Management employee with a career or career-conditional appointment in the Competitive Service and have previously held a permanent position with a full performance level equivalent to or higher than the full performance level of the position being announced
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility. All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
3.
Career Transition Assistance Plan: Do you meet ALL of the following eligibilities?
- I am a current or former competitive federal employee displaced or surplused from the Department of the Interior; AND
- I am located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND
- I am applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which I have been or will be separated; AND
- My last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
4.
Are you a current or former employee of a land management agency (Forest Service; Bureau of Land Management; National Park Service; Fish and Wildlife Service; Bureau of Indian Affairs; or Bureau of Reclamation) who:
• was originally hired to a time-limited position under a competitive appointment; AND,
• served one or more time-limited appointments at a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; AND,
• performed at an acceptable level of service during each period of service; AND,
• if no longer employed by the land management agency, have been separated for no more than two years, and for reasons other than misconduct or performance
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility. You must submit documentation showing all required periods of service (generally SF-50s) and acceptable performance (generally performance appraisal ratings or memorandum of record where the supervisor documented an acceptable performance level, or reference by supervisors, etc.). All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
• was originally hired to a time-limited position under a competitive appointment; AND,
• served one or more time-limited appointments at a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two or more years; AND,
• performed at an acceptable level of service during each period of service; AND,
• if no longer employed by the land management agency, have been separated for no more than two years, and for reasons other than misconduct or performance
In order to receive consideration, you must submit documentation showing proof of eligibility. You must submit documentation showing all required periods of service (generally SF-50s) and acceptable performance (generally performance appraisal ratings or memorandum of record where the supervisor documented an acceptable performance level, or reference by supervisors, etc.). All required documentation will be outlined in the Job Opportunity Announcement.
Preferences
1.
Select the series you want to be considered for. You must choose at least one series.
Additional Questions
1.
I have received recruitment incentive awards during the last two years and have listed them on my resume.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONS CAREFULLY. YOUR RESPONSES WILL AFFECT YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS POSITION. The following questions address if you are eligible to apply to this job opportunity announcement through Merit Promotion procedures. You will only be considered under the options you have selected. You may qualify for more than one eligibility, so please choose carefully. If you respond that you do not meet any of the following criteria, you will not be considered for this position under this announcement. Please refer to the announcement for additional information. You must submit a complete application by the close of the announcement to be considered.
2.
My performance is at an acceptable level and I am not serving under a Notice of Opportunity to Demonstrate Acceptable Performance (NODAP).
3.
Does the Bureau of Land Management employ any member of your family?
4.
If yes to the previous question, please provide the name, relationship, organization in which employed (N/A- if not applicable).
(limit 200 characters)
5.
In the last five years, based on the closing date of this announcement, have you served or are you currently serving as an Executive Branch political, Schedule C, or Non-career SES appointee? You can find out if you have held one of these appointment types by looking at your Standard Form 50s in your Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF), in Section 5 where the legal authorities are listed.
- A political appointee is an appointment made by the President without confirmation by the Senate (5 CFR 213.3102(c)) OR an assistant position to a top-level federal official if filled by a person designated by the President as a White House Fellow (5 CFR 213.3102(z)).
- A Schedule C appointee occupies a position excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director of OPM, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties (5 CFR 213.3301 and 5 CFR 213.3302).
- A Non-career SES appointee is approved by the White House and serves at the pleasure of the appointing official without time limitations (5 CFR 317 Subpart F).
Assessment 1
Basic Requirement 0408
1.
For the Ecologist, 0408 Series: Please select the statement that most clearly and accurately describes how you qualify for this series.
Basic Requirement 0430
2.
For the Botanist, 0430 Series: Please select the statement that most clearly and accurately describes how you qualify for this series.
Specialized Experience
3.
I qualify for the GS-13 because I have specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is further defined as: reviewing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating ecological data to support informed decision making by authorized offices.
4.
Select the one statement that best describes your expertise guiding and facilitating the collaboration of external partners and independent scientists on complex and landscape-level issues.
5.
Select the one statement that best describes your highest level of experience, education or training developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, memoranda of understanding and cooperative agreements with state and federal organizations to pursue an organization's goals?
6.
Select all the statements that best describe your experience in providing program leadership, management, and coordination:
7.
Select the one statement that best describes your highest level of experience conducting botanic resource assessments involving the use and analysis of existing and new climate data; plant community characterization; application of climate models, and statistical techniques?
8.
Select the one statement that best describes your highest level of experience, education or training in applying ecology and plant population management, and special status species conservation strategies to develop and implement community-based ecosystem partnership plans and public land health standards?
9.
Select the one statement that best describes your highest level of experience, education, or training in developing study designs for monitoring populations of federally threatened, endangered or sensitive plants?
10.
Select the one statement that best describes your experience preparing and reviewing biological assessments and consulting under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
11.
Select the statement that best describes your expertise in translating priority resource and management needs into applied projects and communicating scientific results and management implications from research studies to scientists, managers, resource users and conservation representatives, through oral presentations, training workshops, field tours, and publications.
12.
Select the one statement that best describes your experience analyzing, adapting and applying research methods and analysis techniques in order to critically analyze problems involving botanical and ecosystem related issues.
13.
Select the one statement that best describes your highest level of experience, education, or training in developing study designs for monitoring populations of federally threatened, endangered or sensitive plants?
14.
Select the functions of an agency's planning and budget process that you have provided ecology and/or botany program expertise for.
15.
Select all of the statements that best describe your experience providing program leadership, management, and coordination:
16.
Your rating is subject to verification based on the application materials that you submit, and through verification of references as appropriate. A deliberate attempt to falsify information on your application materials is grounds for non-selection and for termination. In addition, falsifying information on your application can result in your being barred from Federal employment. Please choose the appropriate response below: