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This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GDFL) with one vacancy in Plainsboro, NJ. This position is also announced under vacancy number OAR-GFDL-2020-0023, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.
Major Duties
As a Research Physical Scientist, you will perform the following duties:
- As a senior expert in physical sciences applications, lead efforts in maintaining a regression test model code, compile model executable files from source code, and design and execute Earth System Model (ESM) experiments. Write scripts in multiple languages to accomplish various tasks within experiment workflow.
- Research the evolution and predictability of the Earth’s climate system on seasonal to multi-decadal scales, and seek to identify the causal factors for climate variability and changes on global to regional scales, including changes in climate extremes.
- Lead and support writing papers and communication of results, improving scientific understanding of past, present, and future climate variability, predictability and change from both natural variability and radiatively forced climate change.
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.BASIC REQUIREMENTS:This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements:
To qualify for the 1301 series:EDUCATION:A. Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics.ORB. Combination of education and experience-- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
-AND-SPECIALIZED 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 ZP-4 or GS-13 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to theZP-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Participating in designing and analyzing sets of simulations using climate models to analyze seasonal to decadal climate variability, predictability and change;
Using source code revision control systems to maintain code integrity and reproducibility for climate modeling and prediction; and
Performing diagnostic analyses on model and observational data sets and studying how extreme events change in response to radiative forcing change.
Pay Range
$105,417.00 - $161,939.00