<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Please note the very short window for applying! <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000">The portal closes on 12/07/16.</font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.8px"><br></p></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Email James Broska &lt;</span><span style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:james_broska@fws.gov">james_broska@fws.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt">&gt; with any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">R2-17-1863316-NM-DEU</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Fish and Wildlife Biologist (Great Plains LCC-Science Coordinator)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">GS-0401/1301-12/13</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.33px">Science Applications Division</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.33px">Albuquerque, NM OR Norman, OK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">FULL-TIME/PERMANENT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Open: 12/01/16    Close: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">12/07/16</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.33px"><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/458146600/" target="_blank">https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob<wbr>/ViewDetails/458146600/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><br></p>Duties<br><br>The incumbent plays a key role in collaboratively developing, maintaining, and advancing a strategic, landscape oriented, partnership-driven approach to integrated fish, wildlife and natural resource conservation by initiating, facilitating, integrating, coordinating, and communicating the LCC&#39;s work and activities.<br><br>National and International Coordination: Ensures landscape conservation efforts are coordinated across geographic areas and other boundaries; collaborates within a seamless national network of LCCs.<br><br>Science and Technology Support: Provides scientific and technical expertise and coordination support in progressively refining the scientific and technical underpinning of fish and wildlife conservation strategies and plans for species of priority for the Great Plains area.<br><br>Biological Planning: Facilitates scientific expertise and provides leadership in developing and refining the biological foundation underlying fish and wildlife conservation strategies and plans.<br><br>Conservation Design: Provides leadership for development and refinement of conservation plans that integrate biological goals and objectives established for different species groups, and that apply and integrate geospatial information; different management practices, and/or different ecological functions and processes.<br><br>Conservation Delivery: Works in collaboration to support the integration of cooperative-based outputs from biological planning and conservation design such as spatially explicit decision support tools into existing projects and programs among organizations, agencies, and partnerships in the assigned geography.<br><br>Partnership Development and Coordination: Through well-developed interpersonal communication skills and expertise, provides leadership in creating, guiding, facilitating, and nurturing an interdependent network among the State conservation agencies, sister bureaus in the Department of Interior, and Service programs as well as other agencies, organizations, and partnerships sufficient to support the iterative, interagency application of the SHC Framework.<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:normal"><br></p></div></div></div>