Responsibilities
You will serve as a biologist and project manager for either the vegetation monitoring, forest management, or terrestrial ecology program. For vegetation monitoring, you will develop, implement, and report on a variety of meadow and vegetation monitoring projects. For forest management, you will manage thinning, fuel reduction, and vista management projects. For terrestrial ecology, you will design, implement, and lead wildlife research projects encompassing special status species and ecosystem function.
Duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Manage and implement vegetation, forestry, or wildlife monitoring projects.
- Design studies and implement scientific protocols to monitor natural resource conditions or assess the success of management actions. Analyze monitoring results, write technical reports, and develop recommendations and priorities based on monitoring results.
- Carry out project management duties including grant writing, budget estimation, work planning and sequencing, training staff, and scheduling.
- Coordinate or collaborate with researchers or contractors implementing studies or projects within the park.
- Prepare compliance documents for vegetation monitoring, forest management, or wildlife ecology projects. Ensure project operations are consistent with laws, regulations and policies including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
- Communicate about natural resource issues to both internal and external audiences including delivering presentations, writing technical reports, briefing a variety of audiences, and communicating with colleagues, partner agencies, and the public.
- Hire, train, and coordinate work crews, biological technicians, and/or equipment operators, including managing an active safety program.
- Conduct field work in all types of weather, on steep slopes and with potential exposure to poison oak, ticks, and mosquitoes, as well as involving strenuous physical activity such as hiking, overnight backpacking at elevations up to 11,000 feet, carrying heavy objects, and handling chainsaws.
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