[APWG] Fw: [ma-eppc] Fw: Job Announcement - Supervisory GS 12/13 Invasive Species Biologist - Honolulu, Hawaii

[Jil_Swearingen at nps.gov]

FOR INFORMATION ON THIS JOB, PLEASE CONTACT:

earl w. campbell, ph.d.
assistant field supervisor, invasive species & marianas terrestrial issues
interagency brown treesnake working group coordinator
usfws - pacific islands fish and wildlife office
300 ala moana blvd., room 3 - 122
p.o. box 50088,
honolulu, hawaii 96817
808.792.9414 office phone
808.226.6076 cell phone
earl.campbell at fws.gov e-mail


I am interested in distributing the following job announcements (see below)

to the broadest possible pool of interested candidates. Any assistance
forwarding this information to qualified job applicants or sources of
qualified applicants such as list serves or job bulletin boards would be
appreciated. mahalo.

The Service's Pacific Islands Fish & Wildlife Office (PIFWO) has two job
announcements open between 3 and 24 January 2008 for a single GS 12 / 13
Supervisory Fish and Wildlife Biologist who will focus on invasive species
issues in Hawaii. The incumbent will directly supervise several staff
working within PIFWO on invasive species issues. Major duties of the
position are listed below for those who are interested.

MAJOR DUTIES: This position serves as a Supervisory Fish and Wildlife
Biologist in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), Pacific Islands
Fish and Wildlife Office located in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The incumbent works
under the direction of the Assistant Field Supervisor for Invasive Species
and Terrestrial Marianas Issues. The incumbent serves as a program lead
for the Hawai’i Invasive Species Branch of the Pacific Islands Fish and
Wildlife Office. The incumbent is responsible for implementing Service
positions and policies on interdiction, control, and eradication of various

invasive species and diseases that have, or may have, negative impacts on
Federal trust resources, including listed endangered and threatened
species, in the State of Hawai’i. . The incumbent will assist Pacific
Islands Fish and Wildlife Office staff with issues related to the impacts
of various invasive alien species and diseases on Federal trust resources
in the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,

American Samoa and U.S. Possessions in the Pacific. The incumbent will
serve as a lead biologist related to certain invasive species and diseases.

This position will involve complex interagency coordination.

The incumbent serves as an advisor and technical authority on policy,
management implementation, and resource implications for actions associated

with detection, interdiction, control and eradication of invasive species
and diseases that could negatively impact the 331 Federally listed
endangered and threatened plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates and their
ecosystems in the Pacific Islands Ecoregion. As an invasive species
biologist for the Service, the incumbent is responsible for coordinating
and providing expertise on selected invasive species issues in the Pacific
Islands Ecoregion. The Ecoregion is comprised of 2,300 islands in the
eight political jurisdictions: the State of Hawai’i, the Territory of
Guam; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; the Territory of
American Samoa, the unincorporated U.S. possessions of Johnston Atoll, Wake

Atoll, Midway Atoll, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman
Reef, and Palmyra Island, and independent nations with historic alignments
with the U.S. (the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and
the Republic of the Marshall Islands).

Job announcements can be found at the Federal employment website (USAJOBS
- www.usajobs.gov). The job announcement number for all interested
individuals is FS166240-08-PS. Job announcement number FWS1-08-053 is for
current Federal employees serving under career or career-conditional
appointments, and persons eligible for CTAP/ICTAP, reinstatement, or
noncompetitive appointment under Special Hiring Authorities, and veterans
who are preference eligible or who have been discharged or released from
the armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 or more years of
continuous active service may apply.

aloha,

earl w. campbell, ph.d.
assistant field supervisor, invasive species & marianas terrestrial issues
interagency brown treesnake working group coordinator
usfws - pacific islands fish and wildlife office
300 ala moana blvd., room 3 - 122
p.o. box 50088,
honolulu, hawaii 96817
808.792.9414 office phone
808.226.6076 cell phone
earl.campbell at fws.gov e-mail