Job Type: Permanent
Salary Details: $108,885 to $141,548 per year
Deadline: Sep 30, 2021

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Responsibilities

As a Wildlife Biologist (Central Flyway Representative) your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Serves as principal liaison between the Service and the assigned Flyway Council and other agencies and organizations within the assigned Flyway for cooperative migratory bird management activities by coordinating Federal and State actions to achieve mutual objectives.
  • Provides policy advice to the Service Directorate through the Chief, DMBM, regarding migratory bird management issues within the assigned Flyway.
  • Communicates Service policies, objectives, and plans to the assigned Flyway Council and its member States, Territories, and Provinces.
  • Guides attainment of the Service and Council goals by ensuring implementation of migratory bird programs, cooperative population management plans, and harvest management strategies throughout the assigned Flyway.
  • Provides technical guidance and support to the Service and assigned Flyway Council for migratory bird management in the assigned Flyway, including: (1) population objectives, (2) harvest objectives, (3) habitat conservation objectives, (4) management and research needs, (5) public information and education, and (6) hunting regulations.
    Provides international coordination with cooperating agencies/organizations in Canada, Russia, Mexico, and Japan directed at migratory bird management issues of mutual concern in the assigned Flyway.

Ensures achievement of joint migratory bird management objectives by:

1. Coordinating population surveys and banding assignments with States, Provinces, and the Service’s Regional Offices.
2. Summarizing population survey, banding, and other field information for the assigned Flyway using data provided by Service personnel and others.
3. Assisting in developing quotas, distribution goals, and priorities for banding.
4. Providing technical advice regarding the conduct of survey and banding operations.
5. Preparing assessments of biological and policy information, technical reports, National Environmental Policy Act documents, and conducting studies of assigned Flyway problems either in cooperation with the Council and its Technical Sections, other federal partners, or independently as appropriate.
6. Providing technical advice and recommendations to the Service about waterfowl management and, as requested, other migratory bird management issues.

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