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Open: October 16, 2026 — Closes: October 30, 2026
Summary
You will serve as a Biologist with the National Park Service at Grand Canyon National Park. The biologist is engaged in the study, inventory, monitoring, restoration, and management of a broad range of natural resources.
Major Duties
Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work for approximately January through mid-December, and you will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year. Non-pay status 12/18-12/31. Some of the major duties you will perform at the GS-07/09 include but are not limited to the following: Leading fieldwork in front country and remote backcountry settings and under challenging conditions in a safe and efficient manner. Training crew members in appropriate data collection, entry, and verification methods. Leads and/or collaborates with partners on projects to manage invasive plants and restore native plant communities. Uses chainsaws, water pumps, herbicide application equipment, and a variety of hand tools to manage invasive plants and/or restore native plant communities. Write reports and interpret monitoring results for natural resource managers. Some of the major duties you will perform at the GS-09 include but are not limited to the following: Provide verbal briefings to others to convey information related to habitat restoration including invasive plant management. Utilize technical methods and procedures and management of biological resources practices with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Wilderness Act, and the Endangered Species Act, to design, coordinate, and execute field work. Use field, geospatial, and other data (e.g., environmental variables) to interpret vegetation data, trends and interrelationships and review scientific literature to put those results into context. Download, enter, and process vegetation data from mobile data collection units into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS, ArcPro, ArcGIS online (AGOL), and/or R (or similar systems). Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
