Rangeland Management Specialist

• Duties are listed at the GS-11 grade level.
• Consults coordinates and cooperates with all affected users interested publics and private interests including various environmental groups.
• Advises landowners and land lessees on principles of rangeland management and the laws regulations and policies governing management of range resources.
• Prepares long and short-range plans based on rangeland resource needs/health/capability available work force equipment and budget and public demands for rangeland resource uses.
• Budgets funds for current fiscal year and plans for out-year funding needs within assigned area of responsibility.
• Conducts complete inventories and annual monitoring of rangeland resource and activities to document degree of impacts occurring plant community changes and trend of ecological status or diversity that results.
• Prepares and reviews ecological assessments for inclusion in the environmental documentation record as a basis for rangeland project decisions.
• Prepares and reviews Environmental Analysis Reports and reviews applications for rangeland use permits or other rangeland use agreements.
• Reviews rangeland conditions with rangeland users/permittees to identify and resolve rangeland management problems.
• Inspects grazing allotments for compliance to livestock grazing strategies and management practices that are part of the grazing permit.
• Performs supervisory duties 20% or less of the time.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• 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.
• 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 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.

In order to qualify you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position visit the Office of Personnel Managements General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Basic Requirement:
GS-0454 Series

1. Degree: range management; or a related discipline that included at least 42 semester hours in a combination of the plant animal and soil sciences and natural resources management as follows:
   • Range Management -- At least 18 semester hours of course work in range management including courses in such areas as basic principles of range management range plants range ecology range inventories and studies range improvements and ranch or rangeland planning.
   • Directly Related Plant Animal and Soil Sciences -- At least 15 semester hours of directly related courses in the plant animal and soil sciences including at least one course in each of these three scientific areas i.e. plant animal and soil sciences. Courses in such areas as plant taxonomy plant physiology plant ecology animal nutrition livestock production and soil morphology or soil classification are acceptable.
   • Related Resource Management Studies -- At least 9 semester hours of course work in related resource management subjects including courses in such areas as wildlife management watershed management natural resource or agricultural economics forestry agronomy forages and outdoor recreation management.

1. Combination of education and experience: at least 42 semester hours of course work in the combination of plant animal and soil sciences and natural resources management shown in A above plus appropriate experience or additional education.

• Assisted senior specialists in performing scientific and technical analysis and/or providing technical advice concerning rangeland management topics and/or issues; and/or
• Assisted in performing recurring well-defined and moderately difficult range improvement projects such as preparing allotment management plans locating designing and placing fences signs cattle guards determining stocking and rotation plans and similar projects; and/or
• Assisted in preparing segments of conventional range use plans under multiple-use sustained yield concepts or developing simple activity plans.

• Analyzed environmental data and advised on conventional rangeland management monitoring issues and projects;
• Exercised independent judgment to perform recurring well-defined and moderately difficult range improvement projects such as preparing segments of land use plans under multiple-use sustained yield concepts designed monitored and implemented plant community changes
• Developed and implemented prescribed burns or other initiatives of comparable scope and complexity; and/or
• Prepared segments of conventional rangeland use plans under multiple-use sustained yield concepts or assisted in the development of activity plans that included range and watershed improvement.