Public Notice - Environmental Protection Specialist (Direct Hire)
What you'd do
Positions advertised may be in various organizations at Kennedy Space Center.
Major duties
Support development of National Environmental Policy Act documents ensuring that all documents contain scientifically supported analysis/mitigation measures and are of high/professional quality and supportive of defensible decisions. Prepare technical documentation for special purpose environmental laws and regulations, such as those related to cultural resources, threatened and endangered species, noise, water quality and wetlands, and air quality as applicable. Define requirements, develop scope of work, project schedules and manage a variety of environmental projects, service contracts, and agreements. Coordinate environmental compliance with stakeholders, internal and external, to NASA Kennedy Space Center. Apply leadership and soft skills, such as negotiations, communications, trust building, and ability to interact with tact and diplomacy. Provide support of environmental design reviews, compliance assistance, environmental checklist, stakeholder engagement, and National Environmental Policy Act actions with NASA Kennedy Space Center as the lead or cooperating agency. Develop oral and written technical environmental briefings, presentations, and reports to convey information to agency officials and personnel at all levels and to the general public. Develop and implement environmental design mechanisms for mitigating and monitoring of adverse impacts or avoiding adverse impacts to environmental, energy, natural resource, archaeological or land use planning. Advise on Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, documentation and reporting requirements and make recommendations significantly changing, interpreting, or expanding important environmental policies and programs.
What you need to qualify
Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level: Planning and leading full-cycle environmental projects with complex regulatory requirements, to include overseeing the environmental regulatory process or policy related activities; Researching and interpreting a wide range of environmental policies to assure full implementation of environmental laws, regulations, and policies; and Providing technical guidance to resolve complex environmental issues/problems by applying environmental standards, methods, and practices. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of artificial intelligent (AI) or AI-assisted tools during the application process.
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