Rangeland Management Specialist

This position serves as a Rangeland Management Specialist (RMS) (Full promotion potential GS-11), or trainee (GS-7), in a BLM Field Office. The RMS is responsible for performing duties that involve professional work conserving, developing, and managing public rangelands. The work involves the knowledge of the ecological requirements of native plants that are predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, herbs, or shrubs. At the GS-07 level: the incumbent will be assigned various tasks on an on-the-job training basis, difficulty of the tasks and degree of independent performance increasing gradually, as the incumbent becomes better trained, and demonstrates the ability to assume greater responsibility.

As a RMS, the incumbent is responsible for preparing, evaluating and conducting biological analyses of public rangeland projects. The employee develops conservation plans, designs technical surveys, and performs work on rangeland construction projects.

• Coordinate range and wildlife ecological management with other functional activities in harmony with the concept of multiple use management.
• Serve as principal contact and negotiator on rangeland resources and activities.
• Serve on interdisciplinary teams, evaluating rangeland resource and ecosystem impacts, identify alternatives, and trade-offs or results of various rangeland project proposals.
• Maintain continuing liaison with permittee, affected groups and others to ensure compliance with agreed upon plans and desired quality of work.
• Advise rangeland users of various activities affecting their use of specific rangeland areas.
• Prepare long and short-range plans based on rangeland resource needs/health/capability, available work force, equipment and budget, and public demands for rangeland resource uses.
• Conduct short- and long-term monitoring of plant community change, trends, grazing impacts; precipitation; soil erosion hazards; to correlate other rangeland resource activities and uses.