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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Come work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service Sagebrush Ecosystem Team</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Service will post a job announcement soon to
<a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/">
USAJOBS</a> for a Sagebrush Science Coordinator. This position, which was previously held by Dr. Kevin Doherty, is a core member of the Service's Sagebrush Ecosystem Team and a key part of our larger collaborative work with public and private partners across
the sagebrush biome. This announcement will be open to the public and will contain all relevant information including qualifications, salary, and duty station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Through this announcement, we will hire one GS-0401-13 Conservation Biologist. The successful candidate will:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Serve as the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s science coordinator for collaborative, large-landscape conservation efforts in the sagebrush biome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Work with internal and external partners to identify, plan, and acquire priority science and technical tools to inform and guide strategic habitat conservation actions across the biome,
including landscape-scale conservation designs and related products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Serve as the sagebrush science liaison for the Service’s sagebrush conservation community of practice and primary point-of-contact for ongoing and emerging sagebrush science partnerships
with state and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, Tribes, and academic institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Communicate key science needs, information, and recommendations among and between Service programs and partnerships, as well as to Service and Department of the Interior leadership, to
support implementation of adaptive conservation delivery across the sagebrush biome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Learn more about the SET and the Service and our partners' ongoing work to conserve healthy working sagebrush landscapes for wildlife and for people, including our current Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law sagebrush funding implementation, at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.fws.gov/program/sagebrush-conservation">https://www.fws.gov/program/sagebrush-conservation</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We will reach back out with a link once the job is open. You can also set up an
<a href="https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/search/save">
alert through USAJOBS</a> to be notified once the announcement has gone live. This announcement has an application quota, so we encourage interested candidates to prepare their application materials ahead of the official announcement for this position and be
ready to apply as soon as the job is open. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A">Sagebrush Ecosystem Coordinator <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A">Division of Migratory Birds/Science Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A">US Fish and Wildlife Service <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A">Mountain-Prairie Region, Denver, CO</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0C882A"></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#0C882A;background:white">(720) 234-0257 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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