Job Opening: Refuge Manager at Midway Atoll NWR
This position is responsible for a full range of significant scientific and non-scientific refuge issues affecting or related to managing refuge lands; resolves operational and administrative problems for which current information is inconclusive or lacking altogether; develops innovative solutions to complex resource and land management issues that have controversial environmental impact and involve conflicting or unclear law and policy.
Responsibilities
Oversees and administers the biological program at assigned Refuge/WMD(s), administering land and aquatic conservation activities, habitat development, clean-up, contaminant and restoration projects, research programs, population studies, wildlife inventory, and monitoring activities to include species lifecycle requirements and management.
Ensures all projects comply with national, regional, and Refuge/WMD policies, regulations, and mandates.Oversees, administers, and ensures the development of required National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation including Environmental Assessments (EAs), Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), Findings of No Significant Impact (FONSIs),Categorical Exclusions (CEs), Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 consultations, archeological resource clearances, wilderness minimum requirement decisions, subsistence evaluations, etc.
Designs, formulates, and implements public use studies to develop new techniques and methodologies for effecting solutions to unique, unusual, and/or controversial problems and to develop diverse public use programs.Reviews and makes priority public use decisions based on expert knowledge of criteria and policy.
Coordinates with state, local and other Federal agencies and special interest groups when formulating long-range plans for the management of the Refuge/WMD’s natural resources.
Location
Located on the far northern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is located within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. It is one the oldest atoll formations in the world that provides nesting habitat for millions of seabirds and it a touchstone for one of the most significant naval battles in our human history.
