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OSMRE is looking for a talented, highly motivated, and professional for our Environmental Protection Specialist position. This position is located within the Program Support Directorate, Regulatory Support Division in Washington, DC. Are you interested? If so, then don't miss this opportunity! We want your application today! Come join a rewarding team of employees within OSMRE who are located throughout the United States.
Major Duties
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As an Environmental Protection Specialist, you may:
Serves as the Division Chief and expert principal advisor to the Assistant Director, Program Support Directorate, implementing technical environmental policies and regulations regarding the application of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA).
Provides analytical expertise in a variety of technical environmental disciplines to support OSMRE's environmental rulemaking activities, legislative reviews, and development of environmental regulatory and reclamation policy and guidance.
Coordinate special initiatives designed to address technical environmental regulatory and reclamation issues, such as acid mine drainage, dam safety, and hydrologic balance.
Represents OSMRE at technical environmental meetings, seminars, and conferences to enhance professional capabilities and maintains state-of-the-art knowledge for environmental protection.
Coordinator with other agencies to address a variety of technical environmental research issues and studies needs for OSMRE.
Provide leadership for monitoring, collecting, and evaluating technical environmental information relating to coal mining and reclamation activities.
Provide programmatic direction to assigned staff members.
Qualifications
Applicant must possess one year of specialized experience with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position that are typically in or directly related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at the GS-14 level or equivalent in the Federal service, or comparable pay band system. Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Specialized Experience is defined as: Mastery of environmental protection program, principles, concepts, practices, methods, and techniques in order to resolve national level problems related to Federal and State regulatory processes and programs activities as well as national environmental regulations, environmental regulatory enforcement/compliance process, regulatory analysis and analytical expertise for a variety of environmental policy and technical/scientific disciplines to direct the activities of employees engaged in work associated with the natural and physical sciences in order to understand the breadth of technical problems associated with the environmental protection programs to provide alternatives, recommendations, or direction in the solution of problems. For more information, please click on: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/environmental-protection-specialist-series-0028/Time-in-grade restrictions apply. Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade requirements contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart 5. Applicants must meet all the qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement. You must include months, years and hours per week worked to receive credit for your work and/or volunteer experience. One year of specialized experience is equivalent to 12 months at 40 hours per week. Part-time hours are prorated. You will not receive any credit for experience that does not indicate exact hours per week or is listed as "varies." Please make sure your specialized experience/requirement(s) can be identified in your resume. 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. IMPORTANT: Human Resources is not permitted to "read between the lines," make assumptions about, or infer what duties you performed in your work history. To ensure that we can credit your experience, we recommend that you update your resume to specifically address the duties described above. One year of experience refers to full-time work. Your resume must include the number of hours worked per week. More than one position may be filled from this vacancy.
Pay Range
$142,701.00 - $170,800.00