Supervisory Biologist

Job Title

Missouri River and Great Plains Fish and Wildlife Conservation Offices Complex

We are seeking talented, experienced applicants with strong partnership-building and creative problem solving skills, supervisory experience, excellent oral and written communication skills, and a firm grounding in fisheries and aquatic biology to provide leadership and management of the Missouri River and Great Plains Fish and Wildlife Conservation Offices complex.

The ideal candidate brings sound accountability and integrity to program and financial management, exercises emotional intelligence in navigating complex and sometimes divergent stakeholder interests (including Tribal Nations, state agencies, and military installation partners), and is equally comfortable directing technical work such as aquatic invasive species response as leading a team through a demanding, high-visibility, multi-site program.

At the full performance level (GS-13), the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provide administrative, scientific, and technical leadership for a large, complex scientific program/project. Manages the formulation of program objectives, priorities, and techniques. Provides long range resource planning, program direction, coordination, and evaluation. Lead the development of overall program goals, objectives, policies and strategies necessary to direct the program. Evaluates and monitors the program's accomplishments against stated goals and objectives.
• Coordinate interjurisdictional fisheries management and restoration activities for fishery and aquatic resources across the Missouri River system in North and South Dakota. Establish and maintain effective working relationships and partnerships with Tribal Nations, state agencies, federal agencies, and stakeholders with divergent interests, exercising tact and diplomacy to coordinate work across jurisdictional and organizational boundaries.
• Provide scientific and technical leadership in directing Aquatic Invasive Species monitoring and response.
• Coordinate natural resources management activities on Department of War installations under the Sikes Act, including participation in Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) development, review, and implementation. Establish and maintain effective working relationships and partnerships with installation partners with divergent interests, exercising tact and diplomacy to coordinate work across jurisdictional and organizational boundaries.
• Develop and execute complex budgets from multiple appropriated fund sources, and develop, negotiate, and administer contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements.
• Provide administrative and technical supervision necessary to accomplish the work. This includes applying supervisory and managerial principles and methods, including workforce planning, performance management, and employee development.