[Maipc] Fw: Vacancy Announcement: GS-12 Ecologist/Botanist - Vegetation Management Specialist

[Betsy_Lyman at nps.gov]

The Biological Resource Management Division's (BRMD) Restoration and
Adaptation Branch is recruiting for an inter-disciplinary GS-12 Botanist
(GS-0430) / Plant Ecologist (GS-0408) Vegetation Management Specialist to
be duty stationed in Fort Collins, CO.  Activities within the Restoration
Branch include providing  policy, tools and technical guidance necessary to
restore disrupted ecological processes and degraded ecosystems, and to
manage ecosystem resources for anticipated impacts of global environmental
change.  The Branch includes expertise in plant ecology, vegetation
inventory, remote sensing, soil ecology, restoration, invasive plant
management, and botany.  The candidate will apply expertise in plant
ecology / botany towards invasive plant management activities, vegetation
inventory efforts, plant conservation and restoration projects, issues
related to rare, threatened, and endangered plants, and other complex
botanical issues that impact park management.

BRMD provides leadership in conservation, preservation, restoration and
stewardship for the National Park Service (NPS). The Division provides
scientific expertise and technological assistance to support the management
and protection of biological resources and related ecosystem processes
based on credible and sound science within and adjacent to parks. BRMD
staff work with individual parks, the park system, NPS leadership, and
public and private partners on emerging biological issues.  BRMD is
organized into five branches: Development and New Initiatives, Human
Dimensions, Restoration and Adaptation, Wildlife Conservation, and Wildlife
Health.  As a Division within the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
Directorate (NRSS), BRMD maintains offices in Fort Collins, Colorado, and
Washington, D.C.

The position is being advertised both for Merit Promotion and all sources
consideration:

Title:                        Ecologist/Botanist - Vegetation management
Specialist

Series/Grade(s):              GS-0408/0430-12

Promotion Potential:    GS-12

Duty Location(s):       Fort Collins, Colorado

Announcement No:        WO-COAB-12-624396-DE and WO-COAB-12-625804-MP

Open Period:                  3/19/2012   to   4/06/2012

http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/312004700   (All sources
announcement)
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/312035500   (Merit promotion
announcement)

In an effort to fill the vacancy with the best qualified candidate, we
greatly appreciate your sharing the announcement with interested candidates
or professional organizations.  If there are any questions about the
vacancy please let me know.

Thanks.

Pete
_____________________________________________
Peter Budde, Branch Chief - Restoration & Adaptation
Biological Resource Management Division
National Park Service
Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
1201 Oakridge Dr, Suite 200
Fort Collins, CO  80525

phone:  970.225.3559
e-mail:  peter_budde at nps.gov