Animal Caretaker Position Available In Clarke, Georgia

Animal Caretaker Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service US Nional Poultry Research Center, Locion Support Staff Summary This position is loced within the United Stes Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US Nional Poultry Research Center, Locion Support Staff in Athens, Georgia. In this position, you responsible for observing, handling, feeding, and caring for poultry. You will also conduct breeding or reproduction of poultry according to their physical traits. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/25/2025 to 07/09/2025 Salary $21.18

• $27.58 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 4
• 5 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: Athens, GA Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• Driving a government-owned vehicle within the local area to feed and tractor supply stores, the landfill, etc.

is required. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 5 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

ARS-S25SEA-12746051-HCL

Control number 839361100 This job is open to The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Duties Observe poultry for obvious changes of appearance and activity. Provide standard feeds and liquids. Lift and carry feed merials weighing up to 50-75 pounds and handles such items as feed trays weighing up to 20 pounds repetitively. Utilize knowledge of sex/murity, and the normal appearance and activities of poultry to recognize obvious changes such as excessive loss of fehers, fighting, or refusal to e/drink. Cch and handle agile animals. Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a US Citizen or US Nional. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt. Subject to sisfactory adjudicion of background investigion and/or fingerprint check. Successful completion of 1-year probionary period, unless previously served.

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Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verificion check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, E-Verify https://www.e-verify.gov/. Valid Motor Vehicles Driver’s License is required. Pre-employment Physical Examinion is required. Working on weekends and holidays is required. Qualificions In order to qualify for this position you must meet the following by the closing de of the vacancy announcement. Qualificions determined under the Job Element Ring System X-118C, Qualificions Standard Handbook. While a specific length of time and experience is not required for most Wage Grade positions, you must show through experience and training th you possess the best qualified level of knowledge and skill necessary to perform the duties of this position. Qualificion requirements emphasize the quality of experience, not necessarily the length. The responses to the questionnaire and your resume should be in significant detail to provide the person ring your applicion with a good understanding of your ability to do the job, technical knowledge, work, and training experience, etc. (For example: You must have the ability to perform the duties of an Animal Caretaker without more than normal supervision (Screen Out). Applicants who do not meet the

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will not be given further considerion. WG-04 Physical Effort Work requires lifting and carrying feed merials weighing up to 50 pounds and handling such items as feed trays weighing up to 20 pounds repetitively. WG-04 Working Conditions Work is performed inside and outside. Outside work involves discomfort having to spend long periods of time in the sun, occasionally bad weher, and exposure to bites, scrches, and animal wastes. May be exposed to contagious diseases. Inside work requires standing on damp concrete floors for long periods. WG-05 Physical Effort Stands, walks, or stoops for extended periods and may be required to lift and carry merials weighing up to 50 pounds on a regular basis. Heavy physical effort may be exerted occasionally. WG-05 Working Conditions Work is performed inside and outside. Outside work involves discomfort having to spend long periods of time in the sun, occasionally bad weher, and exposure to bites, scrches, and animal wastes. May be exposed to contagious diseases. Inside work requires standing on damp concrete floors for long periods. Educion This position does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informion Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the website for informion on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candides must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors.

CTAP/ICTAP

candides must be red and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluion of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evalued section. When assessed through a score-based cegory ring method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a ring of least 85 out of a possible 100. Recruitment or Relocion Incentive may be authorized. Final determinion to pay an incentive made by the hiring official time of job offer. If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. This position may be eligible to telework up to four days per week, based upon the duties of the position. This position may also be eligible for flexible work arrangements as determined by agency policy and any applicable collective bargaining agreements. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Applicions evalued in accordance with Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Deleged Examining Procedures and USDA policy using cegory ring. Applicants who meet basic minimum qualificions placed in one of three cegories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified. Within these cegories, applicants eligible for veteran’s preference will receive selection priority over non-veterans. Cegory placement determined based on applicants’ quality of experience and the extent they possess the following knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) or competencies: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision Ability to Interpret Instructions, specificions; other than blueprints Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Dexterity And Safety Knowledge of Merials Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic) Use of Measuring Instruments Your applicion, including the online Assessment Questionnaire, reviewed to determine if you (a) meet minimum qualificion requirements and (b) the resume supports the answers provided to the job-specific questions. Your resume must clearly support your responses to all the questions addressing experience and educion relevant to this position. Those determined to be in the best qualified cegory referred to the selecting official for considerion.

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If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurely reflect your abilities, or you may be found ineligible. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring. Providing inaccure informion on Federal documents could be grounds for non-selection or disciplinary action up to including removal from the Federal service. Clicking the link below will present a preview of the applicion form; i.e. the online questionnaire. The applicion form link below will only provide a preview and does not initie the applicion process. To initie the online applicion process, click the “Apply” button to the right. To view the applicion form, : Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have

• whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee.

You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion.

Resume th includes:

1) personal informion such as name, address, contact informion; 2) educion; 3) detailed work experience reled to this position as described in the major duties including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment; title, series, grade (if applicable); and 4) other qualificions. If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. If claiming veteran’s preference, you must submit a DD214, Certifice of Release from Active Duty, which shows des of service and discharge under honorable conditions. If currently on active duty you must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty service under honorable conditions not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is submitted. Veteran’s preference must be verified prior to appointment. Without this documention, you will not receive veteran’s preference and your applicion evalued based on the merial(s) submitted. If claiming 10-point veteran’s preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion requirements (see above bullet), plus the proof of entitlement of this preference as listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans’ Preference. The SF-15 should be included but is not required. Failure to submit these documents could result in the determinion th there is insufficient documention to support your claim for 10-point preference. For more informion on veterans’ preference . Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. How to Apply Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m.

• 4:00p.m., Monday
• Friday).

If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be complete and submitted no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement in order to be entered into the system prior to its closing. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click “Apply” and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and tach your resume and all required documents.

NOTE :

If a document is resubmitted, it replaces the previous submission, which means the previous document is no longer available to the Human Resources Office. If you are adding to, rher than replacing a previous submission, you must upload both the old document and the new document. You must verify th uploaded documents from USAJOBS transfer into the Agency’s staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency’s staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Applicants may combine all like required documents (e.g. SF-50s or veteran docs) into one or more files and scan for uploading into the applicion. Each file must not exceed 3MB. Grouping like documents into files will simplify the applicion process. Documents must be in one of the following forms: GIF, JPEG, JPG, PDF, PNG, RTF, or Word (DOC or DOCX). Uploaded documents may not require a password, digital signure, or other encryption to open. Agency contact informion Heher Lee Phone Address Agricultural Research Service 141 Experimental Stion Road Stoneville, MS 38776 US Next steps Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the Fair Chance Act, agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant’s criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other informion reled to an organizion’s alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to Candace.

Jacobs@usda.gov, subject line: Fair Chance Act. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure, etc. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of considerion.

Resume th includes:

1) personal informion such as name, address, contact informion; 2) educion; 3) detailed work experience reled to this position as described in the major duties including work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment; title, series, grade (if applicable); and 4) other qualificions. If educion is required or you are using educion to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient with the applicion if it includes your name and the necessary course informion; however, if you are selected, you required to submit official transcripts prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been successfully obtained from an accredited school, college or university. If any educion was completed a foreign institute, you must submit with your applicion evidence th the institute was appropriely accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion as equivalent to U.S. educion standards. There are prive organizions th specialize in this evaluion and a fee is normally associed with this service. For a list of prive organizions th evalue educion, the website. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. If claiming veteran’s preference, you must submit a DD214, Certifice of Release from Active Duty, which shows des of service and discharge under honorable conditions. If currently on active duty you must submit a certificion of expected discharge or release from active duty service under honorable conditions not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is submitted. Veteran’s preference must be verified prior to appointment. Without this documention, you will not receive veteran’s preference and your applicion evalued based on the merial(s) submitted. If claiming 10-point veteran’s preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion requirements (see above bullet), plus the proof of entitlement of this preference as listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans’ Preference. The SF-15 should be included but is not required. Failure to submit these documents could result in the determinion th there is insufficient documention to support your claim for 10-point preference. For more informion on veterans’ preference . Surplus or displaced employees eligible for CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP priority must provide: proof of eligibility (RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for declining a transfer of function or directed reassignment to another commuting area, notice of disability annuity terminion), SF-50 documenting separion (as applicable), and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion with your applicion per 5 CFR 330. How to Apply Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing de of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (normally 8:00a.m.

• 4:00p.m., Monday
• Friday).

If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing de for an alterne method. All hardship applicion packages must be complete and submitted no ler than noon ET on the closing de of the announcement in order to be entered into the system prior to its closing. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click “Apply” and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and tach your resume and all required documents.

NOTE :

If a document is resubmitted, it replaces the previous submission, which means the previous document is no longer available to the Human Resources Office. If you are adding to, rher than replacing a previous submission, you must upload both the old document and the new document. You must verify th uploaded documents from USAJOBS transfer into the Agency’s staffing system as there is a limition to the number of documents th can be transferred. However, once in the Agency’s staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Applicants may combine all like required documents (e.g. SF-50s or veteran docs) into one or more files and scan for uploading into the applicion. Each file must not exceed 3MB. Grouping like documents into files will simplify the applicion process. Documents must be in one of the following forms: GIF, JPEG, JPG, PDF, PNG, RTF, or Word (DOC or DOCX). Uploaded documents may not require a password, digital signure, or other encryption to open. Agency contact informion Heher Lee Phone Address Agricultural Research Service 141 Experimental Stion Road Stoneville, MS 38776 US Next steps Your applicion reviewed to verify th you meet the eligibility and qualificion requirements for the position prior to issuing referral lists to the selecting official. If further evaluion or interviews are required, you contacted. Log in to your account to check your applicion stus. You must choose to turn on email notificions in your USAJOBS profile if you want to receive important email notificions th may impact your applicant experience (e.g. If you start an applicion and do not submit it prior to the closing de, USAJOBS will send an email reminder th the closing de is approaching and your applicion is in an incomplete stus). Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Under the Fair Chance Act, agencies are not allowed to request informion about an applicant’s criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified informion; assignment to nional security duties or positions; acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other informion reled to an organizion’s alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the approprie informion to Candace.

Jacobs@usda.gov, subject line: Fair Chance Act. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 06/25/2025 to 07/09/2025 Salary $21.18

• $27.58 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 4
• 5 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: Athens, GA Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• Driving a government-owned vehicle within the local area to feed and tractor supply stores, the landfill, etc.

is required. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 5 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

ARS-S25SEA-12746051-HCL

Control number 839361100 ., .