Duties
As a Supervisory Research Fish Biologist, you will perform the following duties:
- Manage, design, and execute research projects and analyses for living marine resources in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Conduct independent research investigations and activities on the impact of environmental factors and specific human activities on fish populations, fisheries, and ecosystems.
- Serve as a senior subject matter expert on fisheries statistics and stock assessments processes. Evaluate and analyze fishery and survey statistical data collection activities including but not limited to multivariate analyses, computer simulations, and artificial intelligence.
- Advise and support junior scientists and graduate students in conducting stock assessments, biological modeling, and related research projects. Articulate and direct assignments, projects, actionable events, milestones, deadlines, and timeframes for completion.
- Provide national and international coordination for research support activities for the conservation and management of the Nation’s living marine resources.
Qualifications
To qualify for the 0482 series:
EDUCATION:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position requires applicants to meet a Basic Education Requirement in addition to at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet one of the following basic education requirements:
- Degree: Applicants must show that they have a degree with major study in biology, zoology, or biological oceanography that included at least 30 semester hours in biological and aquatic science and 15 semester hours in the physical and mathematical sciences. This course work must have included:
- At least 15 semester hours of preparatory training in zoology beyond introductory biology or zoology in such courses as invertebrate zoology, comparative anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, advanced vertebrate zoology, genetics, entomology, and parasitology; and
- At least 6 semester hours of training applicable to fishery biology in such subjects as fishery biology, ichthyology, limnology, oceanography, algology, planktonology, marine or fresh water ecology, invertebrate ecology, principles of fishery population dynamics, or related course work in the field of fishery biology; and
- At least 15 semester hours of training in any combination of two or more of the following: chemistry, physics, mathematics, or statistics.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.
To qualify at the ZP-4 or GS-13 level:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZP-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:
- Coordinating or directing a research program or project involving fisheries science or fish stock assessments;
- Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting marine or freshwater science data; and
- Overseeing staff in a leadership capacity in areas such as in assigning work, setting priorities, providing feedback on work assignments, providing feedback regarding overall employee performance, etc.
Salary range: $106,437 – $192,694 per year
Application deadline: October 5, 2026
