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Data Scientist
National Park Service · Posted 60 days ago
About the Role
This is a Data Scientist, GS-1560-11 working in Homestead, Florida in the Everglades National Park. Experience Your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service (NPS). Join our mission to connect with our past and create important connections to the future by building a rich and lasting legacy for the next generation of park visitors, supporters and advocates. To find out more about the National Park Service visit: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/index.htm
What You'll Do
- →This position is located within the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Everglades National Park, South Florida Natural Resources Center - SFNRC in Homestead, Florida.
- →The major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: 1.
- →Administers and manages a relational database and oversees the use of the South Florida Natural Resources Center (SFNRC) database system and leads efforts to streamline data access and efficiency 2.
- →Develops data management protocols that preserve data integrity for a variety of purpose built databases under the SFNRC database system framework and works with a relational database to develop routine automatic methods of data collection analysis or illustration. 3.
- →Uses analytical and geo-statistical tools to examine spatial trends of a wide range of environmental, biological, and ecological data to solve many natural resources problems within the Everglades National Park. 4.
- →Routinely and productively interacts with SFNRC scientists including biologists, ecologists, hydrologists, modelers and water quality specialists to analyze large scale data, interpret findings, and present results while providing feedback to SFNRC staff on the appropriateness of the proposed or employed data collection methods. 5.
- →Designs and coordinates protocols and procedures necessary for data management, data integration, publication of data and metadata, and preserving and providing public access to scientific data.
- →The National Park Service has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework only during an emergency or natural disaster.
- →Salary Information GS-11 Step 1 $79,533 per annum to Step 10 $103,399 per annum.
- →First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the lower salary range of the grade level.
- →This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available.
Requirements
- ✓This position has a mandatory education requirement.
- ✓PROOF OF EDUCATION: All applicants who are using education or a combination of education and experience to qualify must submit copies of official or unofficial transcripts which include grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, institution name, and student name.
- ✓Unofficial transcripts are acceptable; however, if you are selected for the position, you will be required to produce the original official transcripts.
- ✓PASS/FAIL COURSES: If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
- ✓GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.
- ✓Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.
- ✓If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs.
- ✓Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | U.S.
- ✓Department of Education. https://www.ed.gov/about/initiatives/international-affairs/recognition-of-foreign-qualification
Personality Fit
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