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SUPERVISORY SOIL CONSERVATIONIST (ASTC OF FIELD OPERATIONS)
Natural Resources Conservation Service · Posted 42 days ago
Hybrid Las Cruces, NM $108K – $140K Apply by May 27, 2026 Soil Conservation ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Operations
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The position is within the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), State Conservationist office, Assistant State Conservationist for Field Operations (ASTC-FO), assigned to an NRCS area office within the state. This position serves as a member of the State Leadership and participates in overall operations for the State. Responsible for managing field operations, associated programs, and budget formulation and execution for an area of the state.
What You'll Do
- →Oversees the development of conservation plans for a work area that covers a large geographic area usually consisting of cropland, rangeland, pastureland, forestland, and includes urban as well as rural areas.
- →Provides supervision to staff of specialists (Soil Scientists, Soil Conservationists).
- →Providing leadership of program activities, making work assignments, evaluating performance, making selections, and determines training needs.
- →Manages available staff resources schedules for staff activities, preparing and monitoring budgets and funding requests, organizing work, and controlling work products in conformance with existing laws, rules and regulations, guidelines, and policy.
- →Develops justifications and determines staffing requirements; recommends changes in organizational structures to efficiently accomplish project objectives.
- →Represents the agency in meetings with partners, contractors, and federal, state, and local government agencies.
- →Coordinates team activities in the state, utilizing state operating criteria, to achieve a coordinated program of resource planning and implementation; watershed and flood prevention planning; resource inventory and monitoring activities.
- →Coordinates the resources necessary to accomplish the NRCS objectives and responsibilities assigned by USDA programs.
- →Makes independent decisions to ensure compliance.
- →Coordinates the development of complex, and often controversial, resource management plans.
- →Including nutrients found in irrigation runoff, presents alternatives, and evaluates the effects of changing land use on water quality.
- →Seeks opportunities for and evaluates the impacts of radical systems changes on the organization and its partnership.
- →Coordinates and assists staff dealing with county and regional planning commissions and water resources planning and development boards.
- →Works with state and area level staff to schedule and complete all aspects of the Quality Assurance reviews.
Requirements
- ✓EDUCATION IS NOT QUALIFYING AT THE GS-13 LEVEL.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 64ebb96e-0d18-4cf4-a895-5019f24ee876
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