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U.S. & Wildlife Service Basic Qualification Requirements for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Careers

FISH & WILDLIFE BIOLIGIST (486) BIOLOGIST (482) Positions that involve professional work Positions that require professional in , agriculture, or related natural knowledge and competence in the resource management. science of fishery biology to perform Please note that this work including: developing, conserving, QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: managing, and administering fishery list is not inclusive Successful completion of a full four-year resources; and evaluating the impact course of study in an accredited college of construction projects and other of all Service career or university leading to a bachelor’s or socioeconomic activities that present higher degree, which includes a major potential or actual adverse effects on qualification field (24 semester hours) of study in fishery resources and their habitat. requirements. For biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, , or QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: more detailed related disciplines appropriate to this Successful completion of a full four-year position or an appropriate combination in course of study in an accredited college information, education and experience. or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree with a major in biological please visit the WILDLIFE REFUGE MANAGEMENT (485) science which includes at least six Positions that require professional semester hours in aquatic subjects Office of Personnel knowledge and competence in the such as , , fishery management, administration, and biology, aquatic , aquatic fauna, Management’s scientific operation of public lands and , fish culture, or related website at http:// waters designated as national wildlife courses in the field of fishery biology; 12 refuges. The work involves a variety of semester hours in science in such www.opm.gov/ land and water-based activities including: subjects as general , vertebrate water and habitat management; land zoology, comparative , , qualifications/index. planning; resources identification , , , cellular and allocation; administration; public biology, and , or research in asp relations; supervision; and other activities these fields. Excess coursework in involving wildlife resource utilization, aquatic subjects may be used to meet protection, inventory, and evaluation, and this requirement when appropriate or an maintenance of grasslands, marshes and appropriate combination of education and soils. experience.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: WILDLIFE INSPECTOR (1801) Successful completion of a full four-year Positions are located in the Office course of study in an accredited college or of Senior Resident Agent at Ports university leading to a bachelor’s degree of Entry. Positions perform the full or higher in zoology, wildlife management range of inspection and compliance or an appropriate field of biology duties involving the enforcement and which includes at least nine semester administration of laws and regulations hours in zoology; six semester hours in governing the importation, exportation, such wildlife courses as , and interstate commerce of wildlife and , animal ecology, or wildlife wildlife products. management; and nine semester hours in botany or an appropriate combination of QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: education and experience. Successful completion of a full four-year course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree or three years general experience, one of which demonstrates an ability to analyze problems, plan and organize and administration of wildlife species; or must also provide knowledge of the work, and communicate effectively orally the determination, establishment, and requirements and practices of outdoor and in writing. application of biological facts, principles, recreation, planning, or natural resource methods, techniques, and procedures utilization and conservation. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR (1811) necessary for the conservation and Positions focus on potentially devastating management of wildlife resources and PARK RANGER (025) threats to wildlife resources including habitats. Positions that require knowledge of the illegal trade, unlawful commercial principles and techniques of biology, exploitation, habitat destruction, and QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: forestry, conservation, environment, environmental hazards. Incumbents Successful completion of a full four-year and natural resource management, in investigate wildlife crimes, regulate course of study in an accredited college order to effectively convey biological wildlife trade, help Americans or university leading to a bachelor’s subject matter to the public. Positions understand and comply with wildlife or higher degree in biological science with law enforcement duties also require protection laws, and team with which includes at least 12 semester hours knowledge of applicable Federal, State, international, Federal, State, and in subjects such as general zoology, and local laws and regulation governing tribal counterparts to conserve wildlife invertebrate or vertebrate zoology, the use of refuge lands, facilities, and resources. Specific examples of work comparative anatomy, physiology, resources to determine violations. include: Breaking up international genetics, ecology, cellular biology, and domestic smuggling rings that parasitology, entomology, or research QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: target imperiled species; preventing courses in such subjects. Excess Successful completion of a full four-year the unlawful commercial exploitation of coursework in wildlife biology may be course of study with 24 semester hours of U.S. resources ; protecting wildlife from used to meet the zoology requirements related course work in the field of natural environmental hazards and safeguarding where appropriate. Additionally, the resource management, natural sciences, wildlife habitat; enforcing Federal position requires nine semester hours sciences, history, archeology, migratory game hunting regulations in wildlife courses such as mammalogy, anthropology, park and recreation and working with States to protect other ornithology, animal ecology, and wildlife management, law enforcement/police game species; and preserving legitimate management or research courses in science, social sciences, museum hunting opportunities. Incumbents also the field of wildlife biology; and nine science, business administration, public work with international counterparts to semester hours in botany or the related administration, behavioral sciences, combat illegal trafficking in protected disciplines, or an appropriate or other closely related species; train other Federal, State, Tribal, combination of education and experience. subjects pertinent to the management and foreign law enforcement officers; and protection of natural and cultural use forensic science to analyze evidence OUTDOOR RECREATION PLANNER (023) resources or one year of specialized and solve wildlife crimes; and conduct Positions whose primary concerns are experience that demonstrates the outreach to increase compliance with planning; advising; and coordinating knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform wildlife protection laws. the use of land, water, and related the duties. Experience may have been resources to provide opportunities for gained as a park guide or tour leader, in QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT the creative use of leisure time outdoors, law enforcement or investigative work, in Successful completion of a master’s or with due regard to protecting and archeological or historical preservation equivalent graduate degree or 2 full enhancing the quality of the outdoor work, in forestry or fire management years of progressively higher-level environment for the enjoyment of people. work, or in work involving developing and graduate education leading to a degree The work requires applied knowledge implementing policy related to protection that demonstrates the knowledge, skills of the practices of natural resource conservation, or management of park and abilities to successfully perform conservation involved in developing areas or similar operations. the duties of the position or one year and coordinating programs to provide of specialized experience. Examples recreational resources and the techniques REALITY SPECIALIST (1170) of specialized experience include: of area planning. Negotiates agreements with private conducting routine investigations for landowners or government agencies for developmental purposes, or as part of a QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: the purchase, lease, transfer, or exchange team or task force; serving subpoenas; Successful completion of a full four-year of lands needed for the establishment or participating in the execution of search course of study leading to a bachelor’s operation of the physical installations of warrants; seizing evidence; conducting degree. Major areas of study include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. interviews and/or interrogations; taking outdoor recreation planning or a related affidavits from suspects and witnesses; field such as sociology, forestry, landscape QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: conducting routine surveillance; architecture, economics, biological Successful completion of a full four-year testifying in court as a witness to events sciences, natural resource management course of study leading to a bachelor’s or to explain basic procedures; preparing and conservation, civil engineering, degree or three years of general reports of routine investigations; and urban planning, or recreation. Applicants experience, one of which demonstrates assisting in arrests. who qualify on the basis of graduate the ability to analyze problems, plan work in related disciplines must have one and organize work, and communicate WILDIFE BIOLOGIST (401) or more courses in outdoor recreation effectively orally and in writing. Positions that require professional or three years general experience, one knowledge and competence in the of which demonstrates the ability to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service science of wildlife biology to perform analyze problems, plan and organize http://www.fws.gov work involving: the conservation, work, and communicate effectively orally propagation, management, protection, and in writing. This general experience March 2010