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Agricultural Economist
Natural Resources Conservation Service · Posted today
About the Role
This position is located in the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Office of the Associate Chief, Deputy Chief for Science and Technology, in Fort Worth, Texas. The incumbent provides leadership and assistance for economic considerations to NRCS state level specialists in the development of complex water resource plans and reports.
What You'll Do
- →Provides NRCS-wide economics leadership for assistance to states in water resources planning.
- →Establishes and maintains effective communication among state, regional, and national economics specialists.
- →Leads unusual and/or extremely complex economic investigations to help inventory resources, forecast conditions, formulate alternative solutions, and evaluate effects of alternatives.
- →The expert for the development of complex water resource reports and other documents that involve economics including pre-authorization planning reports, natural resource plans, investigation/analysis reports, and watershed plan supplements.
- →Provides expert guidance to national, regional, and state level teams and partners in the development, transfer, and training of procedures, standards, and technical guides for socio-economic analysis.
- →Develops and reviews economics technical materials (handbooks, manuals, tech notes, and working tools) relating to water resources planning.
Requirements
- ✓College Transcript: If qualifying based on education, you must submit a copy of your college transcript with course number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours, and grade earned.
- ✓If a relevant course is not clearly qualifying (e.g., special topic, seminar, research, thesis, obscure or misleading course title, etc.), please submit an official course syllabi and/or detailed course description from the university/college to ensure proper evaluation.
- ✓Your education must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education to be credited toward qualifications.
- ✓You may verify accreditation by visiting the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs website.
- ✓We will verify your education accordingly.
- ✓Foreign Education: You must submit verification that education completed in a foreign institution, was recognized by an accreditation body accepted by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓You must include a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript.
- ✓There are private organizations that specialize in this evaluation and a fee is normally associated with this service.
- ✓For a list of private organizations that evaluate education, visit the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) website.
- ✓Your transcripts must be in English or include an English translation.
- ✓You may submit an unofficial copy of your transcript at the initial phase of the application process.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 93033261-2281-4f84-bdd0-7c5597d7c3a7
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