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RANGELAND MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Natural Resources Conservation Service · Posted 12 days ago
About the Role
This position is located on the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), State Resource Conservationist's Staff in the Elko field office. Serves as the principal staff rangeland specialist for the state, with responsibility for furnishing technical guidance, leadership, and coordination to the range phases of the Service's soil and water conservation programs.
What You'll Do
- →Works with other staff to coordinate and correlate on the rangeland management program to other service programs.
- →Integrates the range program with the programs of other entities to promote a uniform and common understanding of range management principles.
- →Develops and maintains an effective working relationship on matters affecting the rangeland management program with various entities that administer rangelands or are concerned with range problems on ranches.
- →Consults with others on planning, developing, and maintaining an effective, technically sound rangeland management program.
- →Provides technical assistance to personnel developing conservation plans for operators of large or complex ranching operations facing acute seasonal issues and wide variations in range, climate, and topographic conditions.
- →Conducts ecological investigations to determine sites to map based on soils, climates, natural vegetation, and management best suited various sites.
- →Develops and maintains technical guides for classification of ecological sites, similarity index, and safe, recommended stocking rates to fit the varied combinations encountered on rangelands throughout the state.
- →Coordinates with management officials to determine the need for revisions to technical guidelines.
- →Provides adequate training to agency staff on the basic principles of rangeland management in a multiple use environment.
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
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