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This position is located in the National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Water Prediction (OWP) with two vacancies in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Major Duties
The working title for this position is a Senior Hydrologist. As a Senior Hydrologist, you will perform the following duties:
- Develop and modify water resources procedures, techniques, and forecasting applications to ensure optimal use of technologies and data.
- Perform daily hydrologic forecast functions including short-range forecasting during high water and flood events, and long-range hydrologic forecasting to include spring snowmelt, flood outlooks, and river volume.
- Provide briefings for senior leaders, core partners, and other federal agencies including with Regional and National Centers, National Weather Service (NWS) Offices, Senior Duty Meteorologists about routine and high impact events.
Qualifications
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at:https://www.opm.gov/policy.
EDUCATION:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:This position requires applicants to meet a Basic Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of specialized experience in order to be found minimally qualified. You MUST meet one of the following basic education requirements:
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.ORB. Combination of education and experience:course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
ANDSPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.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.
To qualify at the GS‐14 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‐13 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Utilizing and maintaining hydrologic software in support of hydrological events, such as flooding; and
Analyzing and issuing hydrologic forecasts.
Pay Range
$107,807.00 - $140,146.00