INTERDISCIPLINARY

Summary

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates. This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will NOT be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants should review the "How to Apply" section of this flyer for more information on how to be considered. This flyer will be used as positions become available. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Duties

• Assists with developing, maintaining, managing, analyzing, and presenting geospatial data using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology in support of Norfolk District mission areas.
• Supports a broad range of District programs and projects, including Navigation, Coastal Storm Risk Management, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Operations and Maintenance, Regulatory, Real Estate, Planning, and Emergency Management.
• Creates, edits, integrates, analyzes, quality-controls, and maintains raster and vector geospatial datasets, including imagery, elevation, survey, environmental, infrastructure, and other project-related data.
• Coordinates with USACE Districts, Federal, State, and local GIS departments to collect geospatial data for a wide range of civil works and military projects. Ensures data is properly stored and managed and made available to project delivery teams.
• Work closely with other professionals to recommend and implement GIS based solutions for District projects, including desktop and web mapping applications, cartographic products, database development, and mobile field data collection applications.
• Assists in preparing GIS and mapping scopes of work, technical requirements, specifications, cost estimates, and related information for in-house work or Architect-Engineer contracts.
• The incumbent will perform assignments under the guidance of the supervisor and higher-graded GIS professionals, with increasing independence as experience and proficiency are gained.

Qualifications

About the Position: This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates. Who May Apply: To be eligible for consideration you must meet the definition of post secondary or recent graduate as defined below: Post-Secondary Student: a person who, (1) is currently enrolled in, and in good academic standing at, a full-time program at an institution of higher education; and (2) is making satisfactory progress towards receipt of a baccalaureate or graduate degree; and (3) has completed at least one year of the program. OR Recent Graduate: a person who was awarded a degree by an institution of higher education not more than two years before the date of the appointment of the applicant. Exception: For a person who has completed a period of obligated service in a uniformed service of more than four years, the degree may be awarded by an institution of higher education not more than four years before the date of the appointment of the applicant. In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. GS-07 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and/or gathering digital data. And/or executing a wide range of assignments under close supervision. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05). OR Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Geography, General Natural Resources Management And Biological Sciences, Engineering, General Physical Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or another applicable field of study. OR Superior Academic Achievement. In order to be creditable under this provision, Superior Academic Achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled, such as that identified in Education above. Superior Academic Achievement is based on:(1) Class Standing - Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, such as the College of Liberal Arts or the School of Business Administration, based on completed courses; OR(2) Grade-Point Average (G.P.A.) - Applicants must have a grade-point average of either (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on your official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum.; OR(3) Honor Society Membership - Applicants may be considered eligible based on membership in one of the approved national scholastic honor societies listed by the Association of College Honor Societies (https://www.achshonor.org/). OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divid…

Education

2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program. 4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. Basic Requirement for Operations Researcher (1515): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. Basic Requirement for Statistician (1530): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physi…