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This position is located in the Northeast Regional Office, at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation in Boston, MA or Richmond, VA. The typical seasonal entry-on-duty period for Northeast Regional Office is May-October, but can be variable during these months due to weather conditions, project needs, or funding. Anticipated Entry on Duty: 5/24/2020 2020 Pay Rate (Hourly) Richmond, VA: $17.31 per hour Boston, MA: $18.63 per hour
Major Duties
As a Cartographic Technician GS-1371-05, you will:
- Serve as an important team member working to accomplish the annual work plan of the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation.
- Supervised by experienced staff, the incumbent will help to support the Olmsted Center's Landscape Preservation Planning and the Landscape Preservation Maintenance teams.
- Will provide national parks with technical services, creating mapping and cartographic products documenting park cultural landscapes. The timely provision of these services is fundamental to the completion of cultural landscapes inventory records and cultural landscape report, as well as in providing timely technical assistance and responding to resource emergencies.
- Working in teams conducting field surveys, resource inventories and preparing planning projects.
- Work involves creating maps to scale and accuracy as directed from data collected during the course of field work and also from pre-existing data sets.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-04/06/2020-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. To qualify for this position at the GS-05 grade level, you must possess at lease one of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: performing tasks in cartography or in a related field such as photogrammetry or geodesy, where the work required similar knowledge and skills. Which may include, but not limited to: field data collection, compilation, editing and production (manual or digital, manual and/or color), and/or basic skills applying and performing cartographic methods, techniques, preliminary and final-line drafting using GIS-based software programs, topographic, and cartographic maps. You must include hours per week worked.
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EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree that includes at least 18 semester hours in courses such as cartography, relevant mathematical and statistical sciences, or related sciences. Examples of acceptable courses include cartography, astronomy, geodesy, photogrammetry, oceanography, computer science, land surveying, geophysics, remote sensing, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Not more than 9 of the 18 semester hours should have been in mathematics or statistics. You must include transcripts.
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Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above. For example, 6 months of specialized experience (50% of the specialized experience) and three years of education above high school (50% of the education) would qualify an applicant for this position. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e. beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. One full academic year of study beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience. You must include transcripts. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Pay Range
$17.31 - $18.63