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Are you a recent graduate looking for an opportunity to develop a federal career? Want to help ensure a climate-resilient, sustainable future for our nation's agriculture, forests, and natural resources? A position as a Soil Scientist with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) might be a great fit for you! 

 

NRCS is seeking recently graduated or graduating individuals with a passion for the environment and commitment to action through public service to join our Pathways Recent Graduate Program. As a Soil Scientist with NRCS, your duties and responsibilities will include: 

  • Utilizing soil-landscape relationships to systematically map and describe the ways soils occur in the landscape. 
  • Identifying and acquiring the appropriate spatial data layers necessary to create and maintain a digitally-based soils map. 
  • Determining and applying principles, practices, and methods of plant species identification in order to use plants as indicators of soil type, ecological sites, and soil-site and topographic relationships.
  • Assisting scientists and Survey Leaders in documenting soil-plant relationships; collecting production estimates for crops, trees, and grasses; and developing and gathering other information for ecological site descriptions. 

 

Pathways candidates will receive on-the-job training and exposure to a variety of functional areas within Soil Conservation Management, Soil Sciences, and related natural resource conservation programs. As training advances and proficiency is demonstrated, work assignments will become increasingly challenging in order to provide formal experience in the principles, concepts, work processes, and regulations of assigned programs. All assignments are developmental in nature and designed to provide candidates with the necessary competencies to prepare them for conversion to a permanent position within the agency following completion of Pathways requirements. 

 

We have vacancies available for this position in Syracuse, New York. Interested applicants will need to create a free USAJOBS account, complete an assessment questionnaire to confirm eligibility, and submit transcripts, resume, and supporting documentation. Please review the full job announcement on USAJOBS.gov for specific eligibility and qualification information, as well as further instructions to apply.