Position Summary:
Provides expertise on social science knowledge and innovative practices, including data acquisition, mapping, application, and information visualization in support of a social science program with national scope
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures in a highly visible working environment, across organizational boundaries, and in settings of high innovation and change.
- Coordinates with research program leaders, scientists, and staff directors at a national office level.
- Promote the concepts of risk management and governance, human and organizational resilience, and organizational learning and change.
- Develop strategies and assistance to national level programs and land management agency field units in the design, implementation, and evaluation of organizational learning, social science, and human performance activities.
- Plan and organize research and application teams to resolve social science and natural resources issues that are highly controversial.
- Coordinate planning and implementing programs of research, application and technical cooperation between public and private sectors.
- Plan and coordinate land management agency or organization program cooperation including planning, budgeting, fiscal controls.
- Responsibilities are listed at the full performance level (GS-13).
- Establish, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with key partners requiring consultation with academia nationally and internationally
Required Education & Experience:
- Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service or exempt.
- Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.
- Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.