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This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Geodetic Survey (NGS) with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number NOS-NGS-2020-0002, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.
Major Duties
As a Supervisory Geodesist, you will perform the following duties:
- Serve as the Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Branch Chief providing daily management and supervision over the development and monitoring of branch products and services. Exercise extensive knowledge of the operational and research business of the branch.
- Improve techniques, procedures and guidelines pertaining to the CORS as part of its modernization efforts. Lead national and international Global Positioning System (GPS) and/or Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) groups. Analyze GNSS data from CORS stations and coordinate GNSS metadata standards within the global geodetic community.
- Communicate program plans, guidelines, research and results to internal and external stakeholders, and collaborate with National Geodetic Survey (NGS) leadership to expand CORS products and services.
- Develop and implement a scientific research plan for the CORS and GNSS orbit production programs. Contribute to the NGS scientific research plan and promote and maintain beneficial relations with agencies that support/participate in defining, maintaining, and providing access to the National Spatial Reference System.
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 To
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience OR substitution of education for experience OR combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements:
EDUCATION:
A. Degree: geodesy; or 30 semester hours in any combination of geodesy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, engineering science, surveying, geodetic surveying, photogrammetry, or geophysics. The course work must have included differential and integral calculus.
OR
B. Combination of education an experience: course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
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 meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-3 or GS-12in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Providing expertise and advice on GPS or GNSS reference stations, orbital analysis, and/or geodetic datum or reference frame definition; and
Managing scientific research programs/projects to include developing research objectives and milestones, formulating budgets, and reporting research results.
Pay Range
$99,172.00 - $152,352.00