Find & Apply For Zoologist / Wildlife Biologist Jobs in Brewerton, New York

Supervisory Wildlife Biologist (District Supervisor) Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulory Programs Summary You will serve as a District Supervisor within Wildlife Services (WS), being tasked with assisting in directing complex operional and technical programs designed to safely reduce wildlife damage. 1 Position filled in Sandusky or Poland, OH. 1 Position filled in Brewerton, NY. Learn more about this agency Summary You will serve as a District Supervisor within Wildlife Services (WS), being tasked with assisting in directing complex operional and technical programs designed to safely reduce wildlife damage. 1 Position filled in Sandusky or Poland, OH. 1 Position filled in Brewerton, NY. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today • Apply by 08/04/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 4, 2026 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locions: Brewerton, NY Poland, OH Sandusky, OH No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $89,508 - $121,502 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential 12 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0486 Wildlife Biology Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

MP-13021718-26-WS

Control number 878220300 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency Applicions accepted only from current permanent APHIS employees with competitive stus and

CTAP/RPL

eligible candides. Duties Help The duties may include, but are not limited to: Plans, organizes, coordines, and executes complex WS programs within a work unit (i.e., district) designed to efficiently, effectively, and safely reduce wildlife damage. Conducts continuing reviews and evaluions of projects and activities within the work unit to determine effectiveness and compliance with required opering procedures. Directs and oversees the work unit's Federal and, where applicable, cooperive employees (collaborors), possibly including subordine supervisors, administrive staff, and wildlife biologists. Establishes and adjusts short-term and long-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work. In consultion with the supervisor, determines required staffing levels and organizional structure in relion to budgets and project needs. Collabores, develops and inities new, revised, or experimental techniques for wildlife damage management operions in the work unit. Requirements Help Conditions of employment You must be a US Citizen or US Nional. Individuals who were born male 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 one-year probionary period, unless previously served. Refer to the Next Steps section for more informion. Subject to one year supervisory/managerial probionary period unless prior service is creditable. New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probionary period.

Direct Deposit:

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, https://www.e-verify.gov/.

Testing Designed Position:

Selectee must submit to a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and random testing thereafter. Final appointment and continued employment is conditional on negive results for illegal drug use. Valid ste driver's license is required the time of applicion. All USDA employees are required to be enrolled in Continuous Vetting, which authorizes government agencies to receive notificions of criminal activity on individuals who hold low risk, public trust, or nional security positions. Qualificions Applicants must meet all qualificions and eligibility requirements by the closing de of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or educion, as defined below.

TIME-IN-GRADE

Current federal employees applying for a promotion opportunity must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirement of 52 weeks of service the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled.

BASIC REQUIREMENT

Degree:

biological science th included: At least 9 semester hours in such wildlife subjects as mammalogy, ornithology, animal ecology, wildlife management, or research courses in the field of wildlife biology; and At least 12 semester hours in zoology in such subjects as general zoology, invertebre zoology, vertebre zoology, comparive anomy, physiology, genetics, ecology, cellular biology, parasitology, entomology, or research courses in such subjects (Excess courses in wildlife biology may be used to meet the zoology requirements where approprie.); and At least 9 semester hours in botany or the reled plant sciences. OR Combinion of educion and experience: equivalent to a major in biological science (i.e., least 30 semester hours), with least 9 semester hours in wildlife subjects, 12 semester hours in zoology, and 9 semester hours in botany or reled plant science, as shown above, plus approprie experience or additional educion.

FOR THE GS-12 LEVEL

Applicants must have one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-11 level) th may have been obtained in the prive or public (local, county, ste, Federal) sectors which demonstres: Reviewing and managing workload of lower graded employees, to ensure full mission coverage, addressing staffing needs and promptly addressing problemic situions Experience in wildlife damage management operions and research to conduct program activities and provide recommendions to resolve controversial problems. Assisting in the formulion of budget estimes and administering expenditures, for a complex multi-faceted program consisting of federal and coopering funded budgets. Coordining efforts and working with managers of other federal agencies and ste and local agencies in reaching wildlife damage management program goals.

Note:

There is no educion substitution for this grade level.

TRANSCRIPTS

are required: This position requires specific coursework or a degree in a specific field to be basically qualified. This educion must have been successfully completed and obtained from an accredited school, college, or university. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Educion Please see above for educion qualificion requirement informion. Additional informion Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL): Visit the OPM website for informion on how to apply as a

CTAP, RPL

eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL candides must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP 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 applicants must receive a ring of least 85 out of a possible 100. First time hires to the federal government normally start the lowest re of the salary range for the grade selected. Travel, transportion, and relocion expenses will not be paid. Any travel, transportion, and relocion expense associed with reporting for duty the responsibility of the selected employee. Locality pay will vary based upon the selectee's duty locion. A final salary determinion made upon selection. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help 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 Learn more about federal benefits . 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 evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on your qualificions for this position as evidenced by the experience, educion, and training you described in your applicion package, as well as the responses to the Assessment Questionnaire to determine the degree to which you possess the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies. The applicion process involves a technical assessment. Applicants should review the informion below, it is the applicant's responsible for monitoring their email for additional informion about assessments and any deadlines th may need to be met. Failure to respond may result in disqualificion/ removal from considerion. Structured Interview -

Competency Responses :

A panel of subject mter experts will review your responses during a Structured Interview. These responses to questions/scenarios evalued to provide your ring in the applicion process. You assessed on the following competencies: Accountability Financial Management Influencing/Negotiing Partnering Your applicion, including the online Assessment Questionnaire, reviewed to determine if you meet (a) 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. Applicants who meet the minimum qualificion requirements and are determined to be among the best qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. Noncompetitive candides and applicants under some special hiring authorities need only meet minimum qualificions to be referred.

Note:

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. To preview the applicion questionnaire, please : https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13021718 Benefits Help 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 Learn more about federal benefits . 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 Required Documents Help The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure or downtime, 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); 4) all supervisors' phone numbers and if they may be contacted; and 5) other qualificions. Resume cannot exceed two pages. Only one resume reviewed. If educion is required or being used to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient if it includes your name and all course informion. If selected, official transcripts required prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been obtained from an accredited institution. Educion completed in a foreign institution must include an evaluion by an organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs th it was deemed equivalent to an accredited U.S. educion program. For further informion, see: Foreign Educion Evaluion . All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. Current and former career/career-conditional Federal employees: Most recent non-award Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50) showing you are/were in the competitive service (block 24 must contain a 1 or 2 and block 34 must contain a 1), highest grade held (or promotion potential) on a permanent basis, position title, series and grade. If your current grade is not your highest permanent grade, submit an additional SF-50 showing your highest grade. Most recent performance appraisal (ded within 18 months) showing the official ring of record, signed by a supervisor, or stement why the performance appraisal is unavailable (e.g., length of time in current position). A performance plan is not an acceptable substitute. Screenshots or printouts of electronic systems, including eHR Apps (ePMA), will not be accepted unless it is of the actual appraisal form with the end-of-year ring summary. If claiming 10-point veterans' preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion (see above) plus the documention listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans' Preference. Failure to submit these documents could result in a finding th 10-point preference cannot be awarded. Surplus or displaced employees eligible for

CTAP, RPL

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), last performance appraisal, and the most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.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. Resume cannot exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. Step 1: Cree a USAJOBS account (if you do not already have one) www.usajobs.gov. It is recommended th as part of your profile you set up automic email notificion to be informed when the stus of your applicion changes. If you choose not to set up this automic notificion, then you will have to log into your USAJOBS account to check on the stus of your applicion. Step 2: Cree a Resume with USAJOBS or upload a Resume into your USAJOBS account. You may want to customize your resume to ensure it documents duties and accomplishments you have gained th are directly reled to this position in order to verify th qualificions are met. In addition, your resume must support your responses to the online questionnaire (you may preview the online questionnaire by clicking on the link the end of the How You Will Be Evalued section of the job announcement). Step 3: Click "Apply Online" and follow the prompts to complete the Occupional Questionnaire and tach any additional documents th may be required. You can upde your applicion or documents anytime while the announcement is open. Simply log into your USAJOBS account and click on "Applicion Stus." Click on the position title, and then select "Upde Applicion" to continue.

NOTE :

Please verify th documents you are uploading 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. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Only one resume reviewed. Applicants who submit a resume th exceeds two pages removed from considerion. Agency contact informion MRP Human Resources Phone 612-336-3227 MRP.Applicion.

Help@usda.gov Address Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

USDA APHIS MRPBS 250

Marquette Avenue, Suite 410 Minneapolis, MN 55401 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 USAJOBS account to check your applicion stus. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. This announcement may also be used to fill additional like vacancies, including vacancies elsewhere within the agency or other USDA organizions. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which we will evalue your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. 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 MRP.Fairchance@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. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The following documents are required for your applicant package to be complete. Our office cannot be responsible for incompible software, your system failure or downtime, 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); 4) all supervisors' phone numbers and if they may be contacted; and 5) other qualificions. Resume cannot exceed two pages. Only one resume reviewed. If educion is required or being used to qualify, you must submit a copy of your college transcripts. An unofficial copy is sufficient if it includes your name and all course informion. If selected, official transcripts required prior to entering on duty. Educion must have been obtained from an accredited institution. Educion completed in a foreign institution must include an evaluion by an organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs th it was deemed equivalent to an accredited U.S. educion program. For further informion, see: Foreign Educion Evaluion . All transcripts must be in English or include an English translion. Current and former career/career-conditional Federal employees: Most recent non-award Notificion of Personnel Action (SF-50) showing you are/were in the competitive service (block 24 must contain a 1 or 2 and block 34 must contain a 1), highest grade held (or promotion potential) on a permanent basis, position title, series and grade. If your current grade is not your highest permanent grade, submit an additional SF-50 showing your highest grade. Most recent performance appraisal (ded within 18 months) showing the official ring of record, signed by a supervisor, or stement why the performance appraisal is unavailable (e.g., length of time in current position). A performance plan is not an acceptable substitute. Screenshots or printouts of electronic systems, including eHR Apps (ePMA), will not be accepted unless it is of the actual appraisal form with the end-of-year ring summary. If claiming 10-point veterans' preference you must provide the DD214 or certificion (see above) plus the documention listed on the SF-15 Applicion for 10-point Veterans' Preference. Failure to submit these documents could result in a finding th 10-point preference cannot be awarded. Surplus or displaced employees eligible for

CTAP, RPL

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), last performance appraisal, and the most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this applicion process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.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. Resume cannot exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. Step 1: Cree a USAJOBS account (if you do not already have one) www.usajobs.gov. It is recommended th as part of your profile you set up automic email notificion to be informed when the stus of your applicion changes. If you choose not to set up this automic notificion, then you will have to log into your USAJOBS account to check on the stus of your applicion. Step 2: Cree a Resume with USAJOBS or upload a Resume into your USAJOBS account. You may want to customize your resume to ensure it documents duties and accomplishments you have gained th are directly reled to this position in order to verify th qualificions are met. In addition, your resume must support your responses to the online questionnaire (you may preview the online questionnaire by clicking on the link the end of the How You Will Be Evalued section of the job announcement). Step 3: Click "Apply Online" and follow the prompts to complete the Occupional Questionnaire and tach any additional documents th may be required. You can upde your applicion or documents anytime while the announcement is open. Simply log into your USAJOBS account and click on "Applicion Stus." Click on the position title, and then select "Upde Applicion" to continue.

NOTE :

Please verify th documents you are uploading 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. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document forms: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Only one resume reviewed. Applicants who submit a resume th exceeds two pages removed from considerion. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion MRP Human Resources Phone 612-336-3227 MRP.Applicion.

Help@usda.gov Address Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

USDA APHIS MRPBS 250

Marquette Avenue, Suite 410 Minneapolis, MN 55401 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 USAJOBS account to check your applicion stus. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. This announcement may also be used to fill additional like vacancies, including vacancies elsewhere within the agency or other USDA organizions. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which we will evalue your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. 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 MRP.Fairchance@usda.gov , subject line: Fair Chance Act. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today • Apply by 08/04/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 4, 2026 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locions: Brewerton, NY Poland, OH Sandusky, OH No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $89,508 - $121,502 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential 12 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

MP-13021718-26-WS

Control number 878220300