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QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
Federal Occupations
General Schedule - (GS-0400 through
GS-0499)
Qualification standards are intended to
identify applicants who are likely to be able to perform successfully on the job, and to
screen out those who are unlikely to do so. Information about work performed in the
General Schedule occupational series is contained in the Handbook of Occupational Groups
and Series and the Position Classification Standards.
GS 0400 - 0499 QUALIFICATION STANDARDS
GS-401 General Biological Science Series
Use these individual occupational
requirements in conjunction with the "Group Coverage
Qualification Standard for Professional
and Scientific Positions."
- Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural
resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines
appropriate to the position.
OR
- Combination of education and experience--Courses
equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus appropriate
experience or additional education.
FOR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR POSITIONS WITH PILOT DUTIES
Applicants must:
- Possess a current FAA Commercial Airman Certificate with
ratings appropriate for the duties performed;
- Possess an instrument rating;
- Have completed a minimum of 500 hours of flight time as
Pilot-in-Command and 25 hours of flight time as
Pilot-in-Command at night; and
- Possess a current Class II Medical Certificate.
GS-458 Soil Conservation Technician Series
Use these individual occupational
requirements in conjunction with the "Group Coverage
Qualification Standard for
Technical and Medical Support Positions."
Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 and above):
In addition to the experience requirements described in the
group coverage standard, seasonal experience may also be
creditable. A season of experience is considered to be a period
of no less than 3 months of continuous employment on a seasonal
basis. Shorter periods may be combined to make a season,
provided a total of at least 3 months' experience is shown. For
any period where the work exceeded 3 months, the excess work is
credited towards an additional season of experience. One season
of experience is qualifying for GS-2; 2 seasons of experience
qualify for GS-3; and 4 seasons of experience qualify for GS-4.
Examples of qualifying specialized experience include:
- Installing and maintaining
conservation measures on public or privately owned land
including parks, shoreline, refuse waste sites, dams and
reservoir areas, water and sewer sites, road embankments,
forests, and wildlife habitats.
- Installing and maintaining soil and
water conservation measures on farms, ranches, or
agricultural land.
OR
Education
and Training:
| For GS-3: |
Successful
completion of 1 year of study that included at least 6
semester hours in a combination of courses such as range
management or conservation, agriculture, forestry,
wildlife management, engineering, biology, mathematics,
or other natural or physical sciences. |
| For GS-4: |
Successful
completion of 2 years of study that included at least 12
semester hours in any combination of courses such as
forestry, agriculture, crop or plant science, range
management or conservation, wildlife management,
watershed management, soil science, natural resources
(except marine fisheries and oceanography), outdoor
recreation management, civil or forest engineering, or
wildland fire science. No more than 3 semester hours in
mathematics is creditable. |
| For GS-5: |
Successful
completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a
bachelor's degree (a) with major study in forestry,
range management, agriculture, or a subject-matter field
directly related to the position, or (b) that included
at least 24 semester hours in any combination of courses
such as those shown above For GS-4. No more than 6
semester hours in mathematics is creditable. |
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This group includes all
classes of positions, the duties of which are to advise
on, administer, supervise, or perform research or other
professional and scientific work or subordinate
technical work in any of the fields of science concerned
with living organisms, their distribution, char-acteristics,
life processes, and adap-tations and relations to the
environment; the soil, its properties and distribution,
and the living organisms growing in or on the soil; and
the man-agement, conser-vation, or utilization thereof
for particular purposes or uses.
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