Supervisory Biologist

Supervisory Biologist Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamion Technical Service Center Summary Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Supervisory Biologist. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.

Duty Locion:

Lakewood, Colorado Learn more about this agency Summary Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Supervisory Biologist. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.

Duty Locion:

Lakewood, Colorado Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today

• Apply by 06/25/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 25, 2026 Locion Lakewood, CO 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $140,239
• $182,316 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Promotion potential 14 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 0401 General Nural Resources Management And Biological Sciences Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk 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

BOR-DO-26-IMP-12989484-AG

Control number 873657000 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. Land and base management Current or former employees of a base management agency. Clarificion from the agency Internal employees of the Bureau of Reclamion serving under permanent appointments within the local commute area and Current or Former time-limited employees eligible under the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA). Duties Help Serves as a Supervisory Biologist responsible for the scientific and administrive leadership of a multidisciplinary team engaged in advanced research, monitoring, and management of aquic and terrestrial invasive species, ecological restorion, and environmental compliance for wer resource projects across the western United Stes.

• Plans, assigns, and reviews the work of subordine staff, setting and adjusting priorities, and preparing schedules for completion of work in alignment with organizional goals.
• Plans and organizes the overall activities of the projects and provides direct project management and technical oversight to team members.
• Provides comprehensive oversight for the planning, execution, and evaluion of complex scientific research, monitoring, and management projects within the Invasive Species Laborory.
• Guides the development and implemention of advanced methodologies, protocols, and standards for both field and laborory investigions, particularly in the areas of invasive species detection, ecosystem health assessment, and restorion science.
• Serves as the laborory's principal technical authority, setting internal standards for scientific rigor, da quality, and analytical methods, and is often called upon to resolve issues where external guidance is limited or nonexistent.
• Provides authoritive technical advice to agency leadership and external partners, advoces for the laborory's research priorities, and ensures th stakeholder input is considered in program planning and decision-making.

Requirements Help Conditions of employment You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Nional. You must be suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigion. You must submit a resume and supporting documention (see Required Documents). You must meet any minimum educion and/or experience requirements (see Qualificions). You must submit transcript(s) to verify educion requirements (see Qualificions/Educion). Continue to the Additional Informion section for the Condition of Employment For Probionary Period.

Who May Apply:

Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Competitive) Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Non-Competitive) Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) Qualificions To be eligible for considerion, you must first meet the Basic Educion Requirement for this position, having a: A.

Degree:

biological sciences, agriculture, nural resource management, chemistry, or reled disciplines approprie to the position. OR B.

Combinion of educion and experience:

Courses equivalent to a major, as shown in A above, plus approprie experience or additional educion.

Specialized Experience Requirement:

In addition to meeting the Basic Educion requirement, applicants must meet the specialized experience requirement

• this informion must be clearly supported in the resume.

To qualify the GS-14 grade level, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to least the GS-13 level in federal service having demonstred experience managing a broad portfolio of invasive species research and operional projects; preparing or reviewing internal funding proposals; leading new research activities; leading or serving as a team member on interdisciplinary teams tasked with invasive species projects; providing technical guidance to internal and external partners; and contributing technical expertise through participion in regional and nional committees. 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, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Time-In-Grade:

Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You must meet all Eligibility and Qualificion requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 06/25/2026. Educion This position does not allow substituting educion for experience. This position has a mandory educion requirement. You must submit a copy of college transcript(s) (unofficial copy is acceptable) to support claimed educion if substituting educion for experience. Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and de the degree was conferred. Non-submission will result in being red not-qualified for the position. You required to provide official college transcripts to verify educional qualificions, if selected. An official transcript must be sent directly from the University's Registrar's office and must be provided from the institution awarding the degree. Academic transcripts certified by notary publics are NOT official. Official transcripts must be submitted prior to reporting to work as a condition of employment. Failure to submit official transcripts may be grounds for dismissal or rescission of the job offer.

Accredition:

Only educion from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Educion is acceptable to meet educion requirements or to substitute for experience, if applicable. For additional info, refer to the Office of Personnel Management and U.S. Department of Educion .

Foreign Educion:

To receive credit for educion completed outside the United Stes, you must show proof th the educion has been submitted to a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educional credentials and such educion has been deemed least equivalent to th gained in conventional U.S. educion programs. For additional info, refer to the U.S. Network for Educion Informion . Additional informion You may be required to serve an initial supervisory probion period. Condition of Employment for

Probionary Period:

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organizion goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will 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. Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest. Reclamion has determined th the duties of this position are suitable for telework and you may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval. DOI uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including applicant rights and responsibilities, please https://www.e-verify.gov/ This position is designed as a

LOW RISK

position. It requires a fully completed and favorably adjudiced SF85 Background Investigion (T1 or equivalent) th is current (within the last 5 years). This is a condition of employment. Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must certify registrion with the Selective Service System or th the applicant is exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.

Go to:

https://www.sss.gov This is a non-bargaining unit position. Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement. 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 . Review our 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. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide to the applicion questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position. You assessed on the following Competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Leadership Partnering Project Management Technical Competence The applicion questionnaire can be previewed here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12989484 Your answers verified against informion provided in your resume. Your resume must clearly support the responses to all the questions by addressing experience, educion, and/or training relevant to this position. You must make a fair and accure assessment of your qualificions. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than wh is apparent in the description of your experience, competencies, skills, and/or educion/training (or th your resume/applicion is incomplete), you could be red ineligible or your score could be lowered. For evaluing the quality of candides for referral to the selecting official, a three-phased process used. Phase 1: Applicant resumes reviewed by Human Resources to ensure they meet the basic qualificion requirements (see definition of specialized experience). If applicants meet basic qualificions, they will continue on to the second phase. Phase 2: Candides who pass the first phase will have their resumes forwarded to a Subject Mter Expert who will review and score them based on the competencies listed above. Phase 3: Candides given a final score

• those candides who score as best qualified referred to the selecting official for considerion.

Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies with the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s). Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. You may choose to opt in of having your informion shared with other agencies when applying for this position. If an agency requests a copy of a certifice you are on, you notified. 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 . Review our 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 Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.

RESUME:

You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.

For more informion, click here .

TRANSCRIPTS

Required for candides using educion as a basis for qualificions.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

Please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.

CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS

Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .

LAND MANAGEMENT WORKFORCE FLEXIBILITY ACT

: Current or former land management agency appointees. You must submit (1) a copy of your SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, th reflects having initially been hired under competitive examining procedures to a time limited (temporary/term) appointment; (2) a copy of SF-50(s), Notificion of Personnel Action(s), th reflect having served under one (1) or more time-limited (temporary/term) appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two (2) or more years; and (3) a copy of your Performance Appraisal Plan and/or Supervisor Memorandum th reflects having performed an acceptable level during each period of service. For more informion, click here . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/25/2026. To apply, click the blue

APPLY ONLINE

button the top of the page. Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials

• applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.

Agency contact informion Alice Gherasim alice_gherasim@ios.doi.gov Address Technical Service Center Bureau of Reclamion Denver Federal Center

P.O. BOX 25007

Denver, CO 80225-0007 US Next steps Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system. After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile. 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 Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.

RESUME:

You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.

For more informion, click here .

TRANSCRIPTS

Required for candides using educion as a basis for qualificions.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

Please submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.

CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS

Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .

LAND MANAGEMENT WORKFORCE FLEXIBILITY ACT

: Current or former land management agency appointees. You must submit (1) a copy of your SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, th reflects having initially been hired under competitive examining procedures to a time limited (temporary/term) appointment; (2) a copy of SF-50(s), Notificion of Personnel Action(s), th reflect having served under one (1) or more time-limited (temporary/term) appointments by a land management agency for a period totaling more than 24 months without a break in service of two (2) or more years; and (3) a copy of your Performance Appraisal Plan and/or Supervisor Memorandum th reflects having performed an acceptable level during each period of service. For more informion, click here . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/25/2026. To apply, click the blue

APPLY ONLINE

button the top of the page. Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials

• applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.

Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Alice Gherasim alice_gherasim@ios.doi.gov Address Technical Service Center Bureau of Reclamion Denver Federal Center

P.O. BOX 25007

Denver, CO 80225-0007 US Next steps Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system. After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile. 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 06/25/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 25, 2026 Locion Lakewood, CO 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $140,239
• $182,316 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Promotion potential 14 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 No 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

BOR-DO-26-IMP-12989484-AG

Control number 873657000