Duties
In this Hydrologist position, you will perform as a hydrologist/Liaison Officer (LNO) supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and, FEMA inter-agency Mission for Water and Flood predictions at the National Water Center concerning the management and control of Water associated issues and crisis.
Typical assignments include:
- Providing hydrologic expertise and analysis necessary for existing hydrologic data networks and data exchange activities.
- Providing recommendations to leadership in supplying hydrologic services to the public and in coordinating programmatic changes in hydrologic products
- Monitoring hydrologic network performance and establishing requirements and recommendations for maintenance and network modification to improve network performance during flood situations
- Determining and coordinating service requirements of the designated support area with appropriate officials, arranging appropriate levels of hydrologic training.
- Maintaining hydrometeorological databases and information files and performing necessary studies to establish locations for new hydrologic services.
- Leading one or more advanced hydrologic service programs.
- Forecasting operations and other short-range forecast operations that are conducted before and during high water and flood episodes.
- Executing long-range water resources forecast operations, using hydrologic expertise to analyze modeling system statistical output
Qualifications
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
To qualify for this Hydrologist position at the IC-13 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the IC-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following:
- Analyzing forecasts and/or communicating hydrological information to stakeholders.
- Utilizing electronic software to develop reports to support hydrological events (e.g., GIS software, Hydrologic modeling software, SWAT, and Modflow)
- Developing, testing and/or implementing emergency management programs.
Degree: physical or natural science, or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in any combination of courses in hydrology, the physical sciences, geophysics, chemistry, engineering science, soils, mathematics, aquatic biology, atmospheric science, meteorology, geology, oceanography, or the management or conservation of water resources. The course work must have included at least 6 semester hours in calculus (including both differential and integral calculus), and at least 6 semester hours in physics. Calculus and physics, as described above, are requirements for all grade levels.