JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in the National Weather Service (NWS), Weather Forecast Office (WFO), Central Region (CR), with one vacancy in Jackson, KY. MAJOR DUTIES: As a Meteorologist you will perform the following duties: Integrate forecast weather, water, and climate hazards with associated societal risks to produce and communicate lifesaving impact-based warnings, advisories, outlooks and general forecasts, ensuring that all information provided is as accurate, precise, and timely as scientifically possible. Develop, produce and deliver interpretive services in the form of Impact Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) that include tailored products, specialized notifications, remote briefings, and/or on-site deployments to a set of core partners that share a role in public safety and protection of property. Provide information on scientific and technological developments and deliver science-based and technology-based solutions to operational challenges. Collect, assess, analyze, and integrate a complete set of meteorological, hydrological, and climatic data in order to provide forecasts of critical elements at global, synoptic, and increasingly finer meso-scale levels. Collaborate and co-create with colleagues and leverage talents of others to improve and optimize the day-to-day operational functions of Weather Forecast Offices (WFO). *These duties are described at the full performance level of the GS-12. Duties performed at the GS-11 are developmental leading to such performance. IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.