Degree: soil conservation or related agricultural or natural resource discipline such as agronomy, soil science, forestry, agricultural education, or agricultural engineering. The study must have ...

Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- commercial art, fine arts, art history, industrial design, architecture, drafting, interior design, photography, visual communication, or other ...

The Family Member Eligibility Verification (FMEV) is OPM’s required process for ensuring that only eligible family members are enrolled in FEHB and PSHB health plans. It requires agencies to request ...

A subject matter expert, or SME, is a "person with bona fide expert knowledge about what it takes to do a particular job. First-level supervisors are normally good SMEs. Superior incumbents in the ...

This series covers technical positions supervising, leading, or performing work involving applying a practical knowledge of the: methods and techniques of engineering or architecture; and construction ...

General Experience (for GS-5 positions): Experience that provided a general knowledge of business practices. Such experience may have been gained in government, business or industry, investigative ...

Federal civilian employees who are called to active duty in support of the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) (formerly the Global War on Terrorism) are entitled to 5 days of excused absence upon ...

Annual Employee Survey Results Section 1128 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Pub. L. 108-136, 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) requires executive agencies to survey their workforce ...

This section provides information useful to retirees and their families. There are many occasions that might affect your benefits. Explains how benefits are affected by events such as marriage, ...

Rest of United States (Consisting of those portions of the United States and its territories and possessions as listed in 5 CFR 591.205 not located within another locality pay area.) ...

Schedule C positions are excepted from the competitive service because of their confidential or policy-determining character. Most such positions are at grade 15 of the General Schedule or lower.

Degree: range management; or a related discipline that included at least 42 semester hours in a combination of the plant, animal, and soil sciences, and natural resources management, as follows: Range ...