{"id":1456,"date":"2024-02-16T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:29:02","slug":"soil-conservationist-recent-graduate-department-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2024\/02\/16\/soil-conservationist-recent-graduate-department-of-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Conservationist (Recent Graduate)- Department of Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Application Window: \u00a002\/12\/2024\u00a0to\u00a002\/26\/2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), works in close partnership with farmers, ranchers, forest managers, non-governmental organizations, local and state governments, and other federal agencies to create and maintain healthy and productive working landscapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need people who are committed to action through public service&#8211; people who help ensure that all of us enjoy the benefits that come from a healthy environment and productive agriculture. Please consider joining us and helping to make a difference for generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duties:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"usajobs-list-bullets\">\n<li>Works with farmers and other landowners to develop conventional conservation plans addressing common resource concerns; provides information concerning Farm Bill and State Conservation Programs.<\/li>\n<li>Develops conservation contracts according to the NRCS Conservation Program Contracting Manual.<\/li>\n<li>Fully utilizes Toolkit\/protracts programs in the documentation and management of conservation plans and technical assistance by the service center.<\/li>\n<li>Conducts regular follow-up on all scheduled practices assigned and develops operation and maintenance agreements for all structural practices planned and contracted.<\/li>\n<li>Performs annual contract reviews on all assigned contracts to ensure contract schedules are followed and that practice are being maintained according to NRCS standards and specifications.<\/li>\n<li>Completes highly erodible land (HEL) and Wetland Determinations and annual Farm Service Agency (FSA) Compliance Checks for HEL and Wetlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For more information on necessary qualifications visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/775725100\">https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/775725100<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Apply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/775725100#how-to-apply\">https:\/\/www.usajobs.gov\/job\/775725100#how-to-apply<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application Window: \u00a002\/12\/2024\u00a0to\u00a002\/26\/2024 What: &#8220;The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), works in close partnership with farmers, ranchers, forest managers, non-governmental organizations,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/2024\/02\/16\/soil-conservationist-recent-graduate-department-of-agriculture\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5456,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55916,1643,104780,104781,124988,343914,19717,104777,104779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-agriculture","category-conservation","category-ecology","category-environmental-studies-science","category-governmental-programs-awareness-and-application","category-job","category-research","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/enstopportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}