Data Scientist

This is a Data Scientist, GS-1560-11 working in Homestead, Florida in the Everglades National Park.

Experience Your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service (NPS). Join our mission to connect with our past and create important connections to the future by building a rich and lasting legacy for the next generation of park visitors, supporters and advocates. To find out more about the National Park Service visit: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Only experience and education obtained by 07/31/2026 will be considered.

To qualify for this position, you must meet the (1) Basic Education Requirements AND (2) Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying.

• A. Degree:
  Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
• B. Combination of education and experience:
  Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

• A. Specialized
  
  Experience:
  
  To qualify for the GS-11, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is in or related to the work of the position to be filled.
  
  Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience in the following:
  • 1) Administers and manages a relational database and oversees the use of a natural resource science in Windows and Linux environments (using SQL/MySQL, Python, R, shell scripting, and/or other data science tools); and leads efforts to streamline data access and efficiency.
  • 2) Develops data management protocols that preserve data integrity for a variety of purpose-built scientific databases (such as SQL/MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, and/or other database tools) and works with a relational database to develop routine automatic methods of data collection analysis or illustration.
  • 3) Uses analytical and geo-statistical tools to examine spatial trends of a wide range of environmental, biological, and ecological data to solve many natural resources problems.
  • 4) Routinely collaborates with biologists, ecologists, hydrologists, modelers and water quality specialists to analyze large scale data, interpret findings, and present results while providing feedback to natural resource staff on the appropriateness of the proposed or employed data collection methods.
  • 5) Designs and coordinates protocols and procedures necessary for data management, data integration, publication of data and metadata, and preserving and providing public access to scientific data.
• OR
  
  B.
  
  Education:
  
  Successful completion of at least 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree related to the position being filled. You must include transcripts.
• OR
  
  C. Combination:
  Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. To combine education and experience, first take education experience percentage. Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify.

Must meet all.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://.asp

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

For a newly selected employee when appointed to a permanent, temporary, or term position. A Federal employee who is transferring to the National Park Service from another component, bureau or Federal agency and who does not meet the conditions under 5 CFR 575.102 is not eligible for a recruitment incentive.

For a Federal employee when the employee must move, as directed by the National Park Service (NPS) either through a management directed reassignment or selection for employment, to a different location at least 50 miles away from the one where his/her position of record held at time of selection is currently located, due to a need of the NPS. A relocation incentive is not the same as a Permanent Change of Station (PCS) move and, as such, may be granted in conjunction with one another.

This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.