As a Natural Resource Planner your duties will include but are not lim.....
As a Natural Resource Planner your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
- Develops, coordinates, and reviews Comprehensive Conservation Plans, Habitat Management Plans, NEPA documents, and other agency compliance and planning documents.
- Develops, schedules, budgets and implements planning activities including field work, document preparation, data analysis, public involvement, and appropriate public legal notices.
- Provides guidance in the pre-planning process, identification of appropriate NEPA compliance, and preparing and implementing public involvement plans. Monitors daily work flow and completion of scheduled tasks, and ensures that interrelated tasks are properly integrated.
- In carrying out this work, coordinates closely with Refuge field and regional staff to schedule the development of documents and to ensure products comply with FWS policy and will benefit Refuge resources.
- This requires the ability to develop, coordinate, or review plans that may encompass any and all programs that affect fish and/or wildlife and their habitat conditions including, but not limited to, wetland management, water quantity/quality, timber/forestry, or grassland management and/or restoration.
- Coordinates complex and controversial natural resource planning activities and serves as a Service representative regarding planning policy and plan development.
- Prepares contract scopes of work and selection criteria and recommends appropriate types of contracts to award for each planning effort.
- Chairs selection committees for contracts with private land use planning and design firms engaged to assist with Service comprehensive planning, Refuge step-down planning, or NEPA compliance planning.
- Manages a variety of planning related contracts and serves as the contracting officer's technical representative.
- Develops and administers contracts with firms or institutions for services such as data collection, analysis, and the preparation of documents, including maps and other graphic material, and conduct of public meetings.
- As part of the process of Refuge planning, develops clear and complete written documents that are understandable by the general public and effective for refuge manager and staff implementation. Written materials may include briefing materials, reports, contracts, maps, graphics, tables, and other visual aids.
- Responds to written, telephone and in-person inquiries from refuge staff and the public and the news media, obtaining and providing requested information within established guidelines of the office and in conformance with agency and Departmental policy. Schedules public meetings and hearings to discuss proposed or existing programs or projects.
Starting at $69,107 Per Year (GS 11-12)