Hydrologist (Water Resource Coordinator)

US Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) seeks a Hydrologist GS-13 to work across multiple sites in Aberdeen SD, Anadarko OK, Bloomington MN, Portland OR, and Vancouver WA. The role focuses on water resources studies, data analysis, and advisory work related to water rights and resource management.

Qualified candidates will have a physical/natural science or engineering degree with hydrology coursework and professional-level experience in hydrologic research, data interpretation, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Degree in physical or natural science, or engineering with at least 30 semester hours in hydrology or related fields.
• Calculus and physics coursework required for all grade levels.

Responsibilities

• Specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 level in water resources, including planning and coordination of hydrologic studies.
• Advising on management of water resources and water rights as a subject matter expert.
• Presentations to tribes, local governments, commissions and the public.

Education

Hydrology degree requirement

Job description

This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, BIA Central Office in Aberdeen, South Dakota; Anadarko, Oklahoma; Bloomington, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, Washington.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Professional and Scientific Positions, GS-1315).

BASIC REQUIREMENT FOR HYDROLOGIST, GS-13:

A. Degree: physical or natural science, or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in any combination of courses in hydrology, the physical sciences, geophysics, chemistry, engineering science, soils, mathematics, aquatic biology, atmospheric science, meteorology, geology, oceanography, or the management or conservation of water resources. The course work must have included at least 6 semester hours in calculus (including both differential and integral calculus), and at least 6 semester hours in physics. Calculus and physics, as described above, are requirements for all grade levels.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Evaluation of Experience:

Acceptable experience must have included performance of scientific functions related to the study of water resources, based on and requiring a professional knowledge of related sciences and the consistent application of basic scientific principles to the solution of theoretical and practical hydrologic problems. The following is illustrative of acceptable experience: field or laboratory work that would require application of hydrologic theory and related sciences such as geology, geo-chemistry, geophysics, or civil engineering to making observations, taking samples, operating instruments, assembling data from source materials, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings orally and in writing. In some cases, professional scientific experience that is not clearly water resource experience may be acceptable if such experience was preceded by appropriate education in hydrology or by professional hydrology experience.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

I meet the basic requirement and I have 1 year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include serving as a senior hydrologist or subject matter expert performing water resources and water rights protection technical work in support of the water rights confirmed to a regional entity supporting multiple client organizations and water rights claims under active adjudication; perform work related to water resource issues in the planning, direction, performance and coordination of comprehensive hydrologic studies or components of extensive studies that describe and interpret historical and current hydrologic conditions; advise and formulate approaches for managing water resources and/or water rights as a subject matter expert; give presentations to a variety of audiences such as tribes, local governments, advisory committees, commissions and the public.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.