Lead ESA Section 7 Consultation Scientist

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $60k - $75k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Spatial Front, Inc

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501 - 1000 employees

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Enterprise • SaaS

Spatial Front, Inc. is an industry leader in delivering cutting-edge technical solutions and mission support services, dedicated to advancing businesses into the 21st century. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with offices in McLean, VA and Oklahoma City, OK, the company has been recognized as an Inc 5000 Honoree for five consecutive years. Spatial Front is a woman-owned, SBA 8(a) certified small business with numerous certifications, including CMMI-DEV Level 3 and ISO 27001. The company partners with leading technology firms like Amazon AWS and Microsoft, and specializes in areas such as DevOps, AI, cloud computing, and more, offering tailored solutions in system engineering, big data, and emerging technologies.

📋 Description

• Conduct scientific literature reviews to support credible, legally, and biologically defensible project-effect analyses for ESA Section 7 consultation documents • Independently perform complex and highly specialized ESA Section 7 consultation work • Serve as a senior technical resource for complex, high-visibility, and mission-critical consultations • Provide technical leadership and oversight to less-senior ESA Consultation Scientists • Assign or coordinate consultation activities and provide technical direction • Mentor and train junior ESA Consultation Scientists in SERO practices, ESA Section 7 theory and implementation, effects analysis, consultation document development, and quality standards • Conduct QA/QC reviews of consultation documents prepared by less-senior staff • Participate in Section 7 QA/QC meetings • Support development and review of complex biological opinions, including environmental baseline, effects analyses, and climate-related considerations • Coordinate with consulting biologists, PRD reviewers, species recovery coordinators, Office of General Counsel, federal action agencies, applicants, and other stakeholders • Ensure informational requirements are met for incoming consultation requests • Collaborate to ensure consultations are biologically accurate, legally sufficient, consistent, and aligned with conservation goals • Discuss project methodologies and designs with applicants and federal agencies • Recommend approaches, alternatives, and modifications to reduce impacts to listed species and habitats and streamline consultation • Draft agency response documents using Microsoft programs, including RAI, LOC, and biological opinion documents • Provide meeting and conference coordination and support • Support data management, documentation, and analysis for Section 7 consultations

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in Marine Science, Marine Biology, Biology, Oceanography, Marine Policy, or a closely related discipline • Minimum of 5 years of directly related professional experience, including substantive experience applying ESA Section 7 consultation requirements • Progressively responsible work involving complex scientific or regulatory analysis, independent judgment, technical review, and/or leadership of less-senior staff • Ability to independently perform complex or highly specialized ESA Section 7 consultation work with minimal supervision • Experience providing technical leadership, guidance, mentoring, and/or oversight to less-senior scientific staff • Experience reviewing other consultation scientists’ work and identifying technical or regulatory deficiencies • Ability to exercise sound independent judgment on complex, sensitive, high-priority, or high-visibility consultation issues • Experience applying ESA Section 7 consultation requirements • Knowledge of Southeast US species-related habitats • Strong technical writing, organizational, and communication skills • Ability to adapt to frequently changing standard operating procedures • Current knowledge of ESA Section 7 consultation requirements, MSA, and SERO species-related habitats • Demonstrated experience conducting substantive technical QA/QC reviews of ESA Section 7 consultation documents • Ability to mentor and train junior ESA Consultation Scientists • Ability to coordinate with PRD reviewers, species recovery coordinators, legal counsel, federal agencies, and non-governmental organizations • Experience with consultation data management, quality control, administrative records, and NMFS tracking systems such as ECO • Ability to analyze data and prepare scientific and plain-language reports, summaries, graphs, maps, and interpreted information products • US citizenship and/or current Green Card holder status • Successful completion of a background check, including criminal history, education, professional certification, previous employment, and credit history verification • Fingerprinting required for the Public Trust background investigation • Preferred: strong understanding of Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic coastal ecology and marine biology • Preferred: knowledge of aquatic habitat restoration or aquatic habitat impact assessment • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Proficiency in Google enterprise tools including Gmail, Calendar, and Hangouts • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines with minimal supervision

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time W2 position • Benefits offered by Spatial Front, Inc. (details referenced at http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html) • Equal-opportunity employment • E-Verify participation