This position is located in the National Weather Service (NWS), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Storm Prediction Center (SPC) with one vacancy in Boise, ID or Norman, OK.
Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: To qualify for the 1340 series: EDUCATION: A. Degree: Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, or other natural science major that included: 1. At least 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of credit in meteorology/atmospheric science including a minimum of: Six semester hours of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics;* Six semester hours of analysis and prediction of weather systems (synoptic/mesoscale); Three semester hours of physical meteorology; and Two semester hours of remote sensing of the atmosphere and/or instrumentation. 2. Six semester hours of physics, with at least one course that includes laboratory sessions.* 3. Three semester hours of ordinary differential equations.* 4. At least nine semester hours of course work appropriate for a physical science major in any combination of three or more of the following: physical hydrology, statistics, chemistry, physical oceanography, physical climatology, radiative transfer, aeronomy, advanced thermodynamics, advanced electricity and magnetism, light and optics, and computer science. * There is a prerequisite or corequisite of calculus for course work in atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics, physics, and differential equations. Calculus courses must be appropriate for a physical science major. OR B. Combination of education and experience: course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. -AND- 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. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To qualify at the GS-14 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 GS-13 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Developing or modifying software applications for severe weather analyses or forecasting; Providing advice or guidance to forecasters on using numerical weather prediction models; and Participating in the coordination or implementation of new or modified software or models into operations.
As a Lead Meteorologist, you will perform the following duties: Serve as the senior development meteorologist in severe weather or critical fire-weather operations. Assist Lead Forecasters with monitoring data flow, supporting media interactions, and other requests when severe thunderstorm or tornado watches or critical fire-weather conditions are in effect or forecast. Develop, support, and enhance software applications for severe weather and critical fire weather analyses and forecasts, including the manipulation and display of satellite, conventional, and numerical model data. Perform diagnostic studies of operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Provide expert and authoritative guidance to forecasters on the use of operational models such as documentation of systematic errors over the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) area of forecast responsibility. Assist and support SPC's participation in the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) and various National Weather Service (NWS), national, regional, or local severe weather improvement projects. Coordinate with other federal and other national government entities, as well as the University research community, on forecast demonstration products and transition new applications developed within the HWT into SPC operations. As Team Lead for the techniques development group, assume full responsibility overseeing the Software Development Life Cycle for all branch operations and projects. Learn more about NWS and its mission here: https://www.noaa.gov/www.noaa.gov/regional-collaboration-network/regional-videos.