To be eligible for this position, you must possess the qualifying specialized experience and/or education as well as any selective factors or screen-out elements as described in the occupational questionnaire and as outlined below. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement, Thursday, March 10, 2016. Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sectors.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To qualify at the GS-05 level based on your experience you must show you have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-04 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that provides the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: wildlife management/research activities; conducting basic scientific data collection involving the implementation of standardized wildlife inventory and monitoring programs (such as passive monitoring or observations); or other related work. If you are claiming this experience, it must be documented in your resume..

To qualify at the GS-06level based on your experience you must show you have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that provides the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: wildlife management/research activities; conducting scientific data collection involving the implementation of complex wildlife inventory and monitoring programs, (such as wildlife capture and/or handling), or other related work. If you are claiming this experience, it must be documented in your resume.



To qualify at the GS-05 level based on your education you must show you have completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or 24 semester hours in any combination of courses such as: biology, chemistry, statistics, entomology, animal husbandry, wildlife biology, forestry, botany, physics, agriculture or mathematics. At least 6 semester hours of courses must be in the applicable specialization. One year of full-time undergraduate academic study is defined as 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours.



you must show you have completed one-half year (9 semester hours or 14 quarter hours) of graduate education in courses in a field of study directly related to the position to be filled (for example, ecology, vertebrate zoology, wildlife biology, wildlife management, animal behavior, statistics).





You may also qualify at the GS-05 level based on a combination of your experience and education; however, only education in excess of the first two years is creditable when combining experience and education. Example, 6 months of specialized experience plus 3 years of undergraduate education would meet the qualification requirement.

You may also qualify at the GS-06 level based on a combination of your experience and education; for example, 6 months of specialized experience plus 4.5 semester hours of related graduate education.

IN ADDITION to meeting the above qualifications, candidates must meet the following selective factor:

- Climbing: These positions require the incumbent to possess knowledge of and experience in performing rock climbs rated 5.9 or higher using traditional ("trad") gear in order to access resource management work locations.

