SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST

Description: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Bay Delta Region has an exciting opportunity in our Habitat Conservation Program for a proactive and independent individual to conserve the Bay Areas’s unique fish and wildlife, and their habitats, such as Swainson’s hawk, longfin smelt, and California tiger salamander, primarily through implementing conservation and mitigation banking!

Responsibilities: This position is responsible for preparing, permitting, tracking, reviewing, editing, and commenting on conservation and mitigation banks and complex California Endangered Species Act (CESA) permits, reviewing land acquisition and real estate documents for bank properties and other mitigation lands, and conducting due diligence reviews of entities holding or managing bank properties or other mitigation lands. This position has the opportunity to independently identify problems, develop courses of action, and conduct extremely complex and difficult scientific investigations and studies on issues of major importance to CDFW. A high degree of personal initiative is expected, including applying the best available technical information in writing and presentations to provide significant positive consequences for the public, CDFW, and trust resources. Public contacts made in the course of this work are highly sensitive and involve a wide variety of special interest groups.

Qualifications: Two years of experience in the California state civil service performing the duties of an Environmental Scientist, Range C.

OR

Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience as a scientist in environmental analysis, research, management, planning, regulation, or investigation, two years of which have included responsibility in the development or implementation of environmental policies, programs, plans, or research projects; or conducting an environmental monitoring and surveillance, enforcement, or environmental management program; or in the direction of the work of a multidisciplinary environmental investigatory or regulatory staff, at a level equivalent to that of an Environmental Scientist, Range C, in the California state civil service. Possession of a master’s degree in a biological, chemical, physical, or environmental science, soil science, water science, hydrology, agronomy, natural resource science, environmental or public health, physical geography, or a closely related scientific discipline may be substituted for one year of the required general experience; possession of a doctorate in the above-named disciplines may be substituted for two years of the general experience.

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