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SUPERVISORY SOIL SCIENTIST
Natural Resources Conservation Service · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The position is within the Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), State Conservationist principal staff member, State Soil Scientist, assigned to an NRCS state office with the focal point for the nation's farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners for crop, conservation programs and conservation technical assistance and disaster programs. Relocation Incentives May Be Offered
What You'll Do
- →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 and maintain technical guides, provides wetland, determinations, compliance functions, and provide state level support for compliance appeals.
- →Participates in management functions relating to the various state programs including assisting in the determination of priorities in the state plan of operations.
- →Responsible for utilizing appropriated funds for program activities in an efficient and· cost-effective manner and provides leadership for interdisciplinary technical and resource application teams utilizing soils information.
- →Directs the development of map products and data for resource assessments activities, assisting users in integrating soil data sets into environmental models through technology transfer of soils information.
- →Provides supervision to members of the State Soils Program staff and/or Resource Soil Scientists performing a full range of supervisory functions.
- →Works with regional office and Soil Survey office leaders, cooperators, state agencies, units of government, and others within the state as a member of the Management Team.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- ✓Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- ✓Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- ✓If selected, you may be sent instructions on obtaining fingerprints.
- ✓Please note we are unable to reimburse for any fees incurred.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov.
- ✓Subject to one year supervisory/managerial probationary period unless prior service is creditable.
- ✓New FPAC supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probationary period.
- ✓Must possess and maintain a valid state motor vehicle operator's license for the type of vehicle(s) operated to perform the duties of this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9b93a678-bb7e-4450-979c-f12deaca7a75
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