Two positions are currently open for applications with the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring Division in the southeast region. Please note that these positions are only open to United States citizens.
Cumberland Piedmont Network Program Manager (GS-13) - This is a permanent position for the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Region natural resources Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Division, duty stationed in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The incumbent serves as the Inventory and Monitoring Program Manager for the Cumberland Piedmont Network, a group of parks with similar natural resources. The Cumberland Piedmont Network is responsible for implementing systematic long-term monitoring and assisting with natural resource inventories. The long-term monitoring focuses on ecological and management indicators of resource condition, called "Vital Signs," including cave bats, cave crickets, cave aquatic biota, forest vegetation, and water quality. The incumbent's duties consist of program management, long-term monitoring, data analysis, developing monitoring reports, and the implementation of resource monitoring activities. Announcement closes November 13. See https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/515408500 for full announcement information. Regional Inventory and Monitoring Quantitative Ecologist (GS-12) - This is a permanent position for the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Region natural resources Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Division, duty stationed in Atlanta, Georgia. The incumbent will work with five I&M networks around the region that are tasked with long-term monitoring of indicators ("Vital Signs") of park ecological health. Ongoing monitoring efforts include vegetation, shoreline change, water quality, bats, birds, vocal anurans, coral, marine fish, and freshwater mussels. The quantitative ecologist will assist networks with a variety of quantitative and statistical tasks, including evaluation of sampling designs, data analysis, data interpretation, and automated reporting. The ecologist will also work with networks and parks on inventory project design and analysis and technical assistance requests (such as requests for statistical training or analysis of non-I&M natural resource data sets). Announcement closes November 7. See https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/515537200 for full announcement information. Questions about these openings may be directed to brian_mitch...@nps.gov.
