TPWD - Program Supervisor V; Texas Natural Diversity Database Team Lead

TPWD - Program Supervisor V (Texas Natural Diversity Database Team Lead)

Position located at:
Ecological and Environmental Planning Program, 4200 Smith School Rd., Austin, TX 78744.

Join the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

This position supervises the Texas Natural Diversity Database (TXNDD) staff and establishes TXNDD team goals and objectives; develops team guidelines, procedures, and policies; develops schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving team goals; monitors and evaluates team activities; develops and evaluates budget requests; and coordinates team activities.

Under the direction of the Ecological Environmental Planning Program (EEPP) Director, this position performs highly complex (senior-level) administrative and supervisory work. The TXNDD team is responsible for processing, managing, and distributing data for Texas Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) submitted from a variety of sources, developing data products and analyses that can be distributed to supplement the primary observation information, and collaborating with the Environmental Review Team and the Landscape Ecology Program.

• Establishing TXNDD team goals and objectives.
• Developing team guidelines, procedures, and policies.
• Developing schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving team goals.
• Monitoring and evaluating team activities.
• Developing and evaluating budget requests.
• Coordinating team activities.
• Supervising the work of others.
• Working under limited supervision with moderate latitude for independent judgment.
• Performing additional duties as assigned and complying with Agency, Division, and Program rules, regulations, and procedures.

• Education:
  
  bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Environmental Science, or closely related field.
• Five years of experience managing wildlife or ecological data using GIS or a relational database.
• Experience developing predictive species models.
• Experience effectively leading and overseeing a team or workgroup, either formal or informal, showing initiative, independent judgment, and the ability to navigate complex tasks to reach favorable outcomes.
• Valid State driver’s license.
• Master’s degree may substitute for one year of required experience.

Hiring contact:
Laura Zebehazy, , Email: laura.zebehazyas.gov

To apply, submit application via the CAPPS Career Section or Work In Texas; complete all required sections as described.