Ecologist/Biologist (Data Manager) – Ashland, WI

Job summary:
Experience your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service. Become a part of our mission to unite our past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations.

The incumbent provides technical data management support for two natural resource programs: 75% of time to the Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network (GLKN), and 25% of time to the Great Lakes Exotic Plant Management Team (GLEP). For both programs the duties include developing and maintaining custom relational and geospatially-explicit databases for complex inventory, monitoring, and management projects for a variety of natural resources. The job requires working closely with the GLKN Data Manager and scientists within GLKN and GLEP, at the nine parks in the Network, and outside scientists and contractors. Incumbent may enter data directly, but more often advises others in data entry and quality control and assurance measures to validate raw data. After validation the incumbent runs, creates, and maintains custom queries to provide summary statistics and reports to scientists who use the data to analyze and interpret biological, physical, geographic and other geospatial data.

Key Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship or National
• Resume and supporting documents
• Direct Deposit of paycheck mandatory
• Background investigation required
• One year probationary period required
• Government housing is not available

Job duties:

• Assist in the design, development, and management of database systems for the long-term maintenance, analysis and dissemination of natural resource-related data sets produced by past and forthcoming inventory and monitoring efforts.
• Assist in the design and development of global positioning system (GPS) data dictionaries, spatial data inventories, cross linkages to ensure software and data structure compatibility.
• Recommend short-term network data management plans to implement standards, guidelines and protocols for the acquisition, dissemination, maintenance, and security of inventory and monitoring datasets collected under the network program.
• In conjunction with the Network Program Manager, develop work plans and schedules, cost estimates, and proposals and grants to justify funding requests and accomplish goals.
• Develop draft guidelines to deal with the more complex or unusual problems, or with novel, undeveloped or controversial aspects of using database systems and GIS applications.

Qualifications and how to apply:
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