Fish and Wildlife Biologist

You will serve as a Fish and Wildlife Biologist within the Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 4, Florida Ecological Services Field Office, Hurlburt Field, FL. All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 10/01/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart

F.

For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted.
An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience
. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or part-time with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications:
Basic Educational Requirement AND Specialized Experience for the series to which you are applying.

In addition to the specialized experience requirements for this position, you must meet at least one of the following:

• A.
  Degree
  : in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position. You must submit transcripts.
• B.
  Combination of education and experience: course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Experience:

To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: (1) applying Federal environmental and fish and wildlife protection laws (e.g., Endangered Species Act Section 4 and 7, Clean Water Act, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, National Environmental Policy Act) to accomplish conservation management strategies;

(2) assisting with the research of potential impacts of proposed actions to determine their effects on threatened and endangered species; (3) Assisting higher-graded biologists in studying and preparing reports on the probable effects of land and water development projects on fish and wildlife resources; and (4) gathering, organizing, and interpreting biological, ecological, pathological, public use, or other pertinent information to contribute to fish and/or wildlife management plans.

You must include hours per week worked.

Successful completion of at least three years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in the biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or closely related field which provided the knowledge skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position. You must include transcripts and include hours per week.

To combine education and experience as listed above. To combine education and experience, first convert quarter hours to semester hours by multiplying by the fraction 2/3. Then, divide your number of graduate semester hours in excess of the first 36 hours by the number 18 (or the number your school uses to represent one year of graduate education). 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. You must include hours per week and transcripts.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) 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…