Wildlife Biologist Job in Rock Hall, MD

Summary

This position is a Wildlife Biologist, GS-0486-9, working in Rock Hall, Maryland, for the Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

This is a Term position, expected to last 13 MONTHS, but may be extended up to a total of 4 years at management's discretion.

Duties

As a Wildlife Biologist, your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coordinate refuge programs that affect biological resources including invasive species control, cooperative farming, wetland management, water quantity/quality, and grassland management.
• Plan, coordinate, or administer activities such as habitat management, hunting, and/or invasive species control and prevention on refuges/public lands.
• Plan and coordinate logistics for field inventories.
• Navigate in remote locations using compass, map, and global information system (GPS) device.
• Ensure that work is conducted safely, even under challenging and hazardous conditions.
• Develop daily work schedules and set priorities.
• Operate small motorboats or off-road vehicles.
• Perform routine care of boats, small motors and off-road vehicles.
• Maintain species identification skills sufficient to conduct aerial, boat, or ground (visual and song-based) surveys as appropriate.
• Work with others in writing reports and publications.
• Use various office software applications to generate textual reports, graphs, and presentation slides to provide results orally or written.
• Maintain working relationships through written and/or verbal communication with stakeholders, program partners, and the public.
• Analyze biological data and prepare report of findings.
• Prepare and submit parts of various administrative reports including biological knowledge/data (refuge management information system, monthly activity, annual narrative, and progress reports on individual projects.
• Use database, geographic information systems (GIS), statistical, and spreadsheet software applications to develop and maintain biological databases and analyze biological data.
• Enter and access data in geographic information systems (GIS), geographic positioning systems (GPS) and ArcGIS to collect, transfer, and analyze the data for project planning, reports and other purposes.
• Create, use and/or maintain spreadsheet and database programs (including GIS) to compute, compile, summarize, and analyze data in tabular, graphic, or narrative form.
• Implement management plans, invasive plant management plans, studies and investigations required for species conservation, resource protection, ecological factors, public information, and other aspects of natural resource management.
• Work as professional biologist coordinating activities of home unit with appropriate federal, state, native, and private organization and advisory bodies for biological monitoring and/or natural resource management activities.

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