Research Entomologist

**Duties**:

- Research factors contributing to honey bee colony loss and develop effective mitigation strategies.
- Develop long-term longitudinal studies of spatial and temporal changes in bee populations exposed to a number of abiotic and biotic stresses and management practices.
- Lead, establish, and maintain collaborations with other scientists to conduct studies on the effects of stress factors and mitigation strategies on honey bee and colony health.
- Transfer knowledge and technology through scholarly publications, patents, and presentations to scientific and industry groups.
- Address the broad area of honey bee colony survivorship by developing and analyzing long-term baseline datasets that can be used to parse the relative importance of suspected factors that contribute to colony loss.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Successful completion of a three year probationary period.

**Qualifications**:

- Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
- **Basic Requirements for Entomology**, 0414 series**
**Degree**: entomology; or a related discipline of the biological or physical sciences that included at least 16 semester hours in entomology.
- **OR**
**Combination of education and experience**: courses equivalent to a major that included course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
- **Evaluation of Education**: Applicants with major fields of study in biology, zoology, or invertebrate zoology may fully meet the basic educational requirements if their academic preparation included substantive instruction (including appropriate laboratory and field work) in basic general entomology, taxonomy, physiology, ecology, general and organic chemistry, general physics, and mathematics or statistics that provided some training in the analysis of variables.
- **Additional Requirements**
In addition to meeting the basic requirements described above, applicants must also meet additional qualification requirements as stated below.
- **GS-12**:
Applicants must demonstrate at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service or possess a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or possess an equivalent combination of graduate level education and experience. Graduate education must be directly related to the work of the position and must have equipped applicants with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. The specialized experience requirements for the GS-12 level of this position are: Experience conducting and reporting research on general beekeeping techniques and honey bee biology; evaluating and interpreting research results; and preparing reports of research results in the form of manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals or presentations at scientific meetings.
- **GS-13**:
Applicants must demonstrate at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. The specialized experience requirements for the GS-13 level of this position are: Experience planning, conducting, and reporting research on general beekeeping techniques and honey bee biology; conducting and reporting individual or team research on honey bee nutrition, varroa management, bee pathology, or modeling bee population dynamics; and publishing independent research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- **GS-14**:
Applicants must demonstrate at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. The specialized experience requirements for the GS-14 level of this position are: Experience planning, conducting, and leading a collaborative team research program related to honey bee nutrition, varroa management, bee pathology, or modeling bee population dynamics; overseeing research team on activities such as honey bee nutrition, honey bee pest management, queen rearing and production, forage use and patterns, and agricultural chemicals and their interaction with honey bee colony survivorship; and publishing independent research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- **GS-15**:
Applicants must demonstrate at least one