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Fish Biologist (Direct Hire Authority)
National Park Service · Posted 41 days ago
About the Role
You will serve as a Fish Biologist with the National Park Service at Grand Canyon National Park in Flagstaff, AZ. Annual Salary Range Information: First time hires to the federal government typically start at the beginning salary in the range for their respective grade level. GS-11: $74,678 (Step 1) to $97,087 (Step 10) - Salary Table 2026-RUS
What You'll Do
- →Attends management and professional conferences and other events for the purpose of exchanging information, presenting technical and policy information, and advancing advocacy for park stewardship.
- →Coordinates the park's fishery and aquatic biology management strategies and programs with those on adjacent lands for the purposes of achieving broad ecosystem protection strategies and minimizing human impacts.
- →In cooperation with appropriate staff, researchers, and partners, the fishery biologist designs, develops, tests, and implements scientific monitoring protocols to identify, evaluate, and do long- term monitoring of fish populations and fisheries.
- →This includes conducting inventories to determine species distributions, composition, and relative abundances; age-and-growth characteristics; catch and harvest in recreational, commercial, and/or subsistence fisheries; and overall patterns of angler use and distribution.
- →Writes monitoring documents that define techniques and develops methods for assessment and refinements of protocols.
- →Based on results of inventories, in-depth studies, and monitoring, the incumbent develops and conducts scientifically credible protection, mitigation, and restoration projects needed to restore and/or maintain the integrity of fish populations and fisheries and to minimize human impacts.
- →Develops and carries out statistically valid data collection protocols for the monitoring of fish and aquatic species and populations and the results of protection, mitigation, and reintroduction programs.
- →Performs data collection using professionally accepted techniques.
- →Ensures data entry and carries out quality control checks on work performed by others.
- →Analyzes complex data then determines and documents the significance of findings.
- →Identifies research needs, prepares requests for proposals or statements of work, and provides oversight for research projects.
- →Serves as a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for fishery projects conducted through contracts, interagency agreements, and cooperative agreements.
- →May administer and track project funds and prepare accomplishment reports, as needed.
- →Maintains awareness of applicable funding sources within NPS and outside.
Requirements
- ✓Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit www.dhs.gov/EVerify/.
- ✓Must have and maintain a valid driver's license throughout employment.
- ✓You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and shift work.
- ✓A financial disclosure report will be required within 30 days of appointment.
- ✓You may be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card with travel and/or purchase authority.
- ✓Additional Requirements located under Qualifications This position has a mandatory education requirement.
- ✓You must submit a copy of your transcript(s) to support claimed education if substituting education for experience.
- ✓Transcripts must include your name, school name, grades, credit hours earned, major(s), grade point average or class ranking, and date the degree was conferred, if applicable.
- ✓A typed list of courses, grades, semester/quarter hours, GPA, etc. will not be accepted.
Personality Fit
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