CLARIFICATION ON DUTY STATION AND LOCALITY PAY
This is not a remote position. Duty Station Location Negotiable After Selection - The duty station of this position may be any federal office location that is agreed upon by the selecting official and the selectee. If the agreed upon location results in the relocation of the selectee, the travel, transportation, and relocation expenses are not authorized.
Salary Information:
- GS-11: $69,107 (Step 01) to $89,835 (Step 10);
- GS-12: $82,830 (Step 01) to $107,680 (Step 10)
NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.
The Salary listed above is based on the Rest of U.S. Pay Scale. The pay may be higher depending upon geographic location with higher locality pay. For locality pay information, click here.
DUTIES
The Water Resources Mission Area, Office of Planning and Programming (WMA-OPP) is responsible for prioritizing and managing investments and resources within the USGS WMA. It is a small office in terms of total staff. It is responsible for end-to-end planning through execution and evaluation of science portfolio activities authorized by Congress through four budget programs. Congressional appropriations support USGS, with partners, to monitor, assess, conduct targeted research, and deliver information on a wide range of water resource topics.
Our Business of Science Synthesis (BOSS) team is looking for physical scientists with strong data science skills and connections to both science and the business of accomplishing science. We strategically prepare datasets, assemble data sources, and build databases or visualization tools to track, analyze, and report on the complete cycle of science. We facilitate the improvement of scientific planning, proposals, agreement formalization, execution, and reporting of final outcomes. The team is dedicated to transitioning our agency's science and business nexus from an institutional knowledge-based model (speaking with a senior scientist directly) to a data-driven environment where we can easily dive into data related to science and business operations anytime and anywhere in the organization.
The BOSS team works at all levels of the organization including Directors, senior scientists, project managers, software and database developers, and finance / administrative staff to address daily complex questions about USGS science and operations. We have access to enterprise databases / servers, commercial and open-source programming tools, and a wide variety of data analysis / visualization tools. Our one simple goal is to be able to deliver to our stakeholders anything they need to know about the business of USGS science.
As a Physical Scientist within the Water Resources Mission Area, some of your specific duties will include:
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Designs and conducts multi-disciplinary scientific projects involving the computerized integration of complex combination of multi-layered level thematic data.
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Gathers, analyzes, tabulates, and summarizes scientific, programmatic, and/or budgetary data.
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Formulates improved approaches and strategies for using water data management systems in support of scientific information efforts. Establishes data collection standards and develops new procedures for acquiring and processing scientific data.
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Designs improvements and techniques for processing, editing, integrating, and manipulating data for the purpose of identifying, interpreting, analyzing and correlating the sciences.
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Plans and conducts water data management projects that entail the development of new applications, procedures, and techniques to produce technically advanced presentations using data, pertaining to interdisciplinary scientific subject matter.
- Develops and maintains computer databases; writes, modifies, or uses computer software routines required for analyses of water data management Systems.
- Operates a government owned or leased vehicle as an incidental driver.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.
