[PCA] JOB OPPTY: National Botanist // USDA Forest Service (Duty Station Negotiable) (closes: April 17, 2023)

[Krone, Elizabeth C]

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*Overview: GS-430-14; permanent
This position is located with the National Forest System, Forest Management, Washington, DC office.
The incumbent serves as the principal national Forest Service rare plant, native plant, and botany program leader.

*Duties:
Leads agency efforts in developing and coordinating efforts to manage and restore plant populations and habitats.
Uses botany methods, techniques, and relationships to ensure conservation of the diversity of species, communities, and ecosystems that occur on forest lands.
Develops procedures and programs for maintenance of viable populations of sensitive plant species and native plant materials.
Exchanges information on planning, research findings, modeling, monitoring and other technical issues relevant to the conservation of plants.
Coordinates plant management programs with external groups, specifically dealing with threatened, endangered, and sensitive plant, native plants, and pollinator habitat management issues.
Gains compliance with established policies and regulations by persuasion or negotiation.
Establishes and maintains contacts with a wide range of internal and external entities.
Develops, coordinates, and evaluates national comprehensive programs regarding threatened, endangered, and sensitive plants, native plants, and pollinator habitats.
Coordinates the development and validation of botany databases and the recording of botanical data to facilitate prioritization of survey work, habitat improvements, ecological studies, and individual species management guides.
Provides program and technical leadership for botany program implementation on forest lands.
Provides guidance to regional offices for all phases of planning and to develop consistent national technical standards for conducting inventories and habitat analysis leading to plant management guides.
Provides technical and administrative supervision to employees in a variety of professional and non-professional occupations.
Plans and directs the overall work through subordinate supervisors, team leaders, or comparable positions.

*Locations: Telework Eligible, Duty Station Negotiable (typically DC, Fort Collins, Missoula, Portland, SLC)

*Eligibility: Federal employees, Veterans, Career Transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Special authorities

*Compensation: $116,393 - $177,978 per year

See the full announcement: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/717281100

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