Sierra Bighorn Quantitative Biologist (Environmental Scientist)

Job Description and Duties CDFW is looking for an enthusiastic, open-minded and driven individual to help monitor and manage the state's groundfish fishery. If you would like the opportunity to make a statewide impact on California's iconic groundfish fishery, this may be the job for you! The incumbent will be conducting work critical to managing, monitoring and assessing the status of California's groundfish stocks which support some of the State's largest and most valuable marine fisheries. Assist in supporting state and federal management activities through both the Pacific Fishery Management Council and California Fish and Game Commission processes. Day to day job tasks can range from developing outreach materials and answering phone call to recreational and/or commercial anglers to analyzing catch data against harvest limits to report to managers. It will also include travel to meetings to represent the Department on groundfish fishery matters and interact in different field opportunities. "Only the following office locations will be considered for this position: Monterey, Eureka, Fort Bragg, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara and Sacramento." Personal Leave Program: Effective July 1, 2025, state employees are subject to temporary salary reductions ranging from 2% to 4.62% in exchange for Personal Leave Program (PLP) hours. Please note that the salary ranges listed in this Job Control may not reflect these reductions associated with the 2025 Personal Leave Program. Please follow the link for more information regarding the 2025 Personal Leave program: Personal Leave Program - Human Resources - CalHR. This position may be eligible for a telework opportunity in accordance with departmental policies and operational needs. Beginning July 1, 2026, employees will be required to work in-person at least four (4) days per week in alignment with Executive Order N-22-25. Additional in-office days may be required based on operational needs. Link to Environmental Scientist Exam: CalCareers You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement. Desirable Qualifications In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate: Skills and Abilities: Facilitate meetings in a manner that ensures the discussion stays focused on the topic and encourages active participation by all attendees; establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with management, staff, public entities, and interested parties; lead and motivate others in the completion of program and work activities; effectively manage time with multiple assignments and deadlines to ensure timely completion of projects. Knowledge of: Monitoring and evaluation techniques and principals in fisheries. Groundfish, Pacific halibut or other fisheries management laws, policies, concepts, goals and objectives. State and Federal regulatory processes. Special Personal Characteristics: Excellent written and oral communication skills are needed to effectively communicate internally and externally on matters of policy, science, project work planning and in developing work products. Ability to produce and critically review professional documents including scientific reports, public outreach documents, press releases, and peer reviewed literature. Demonstrated ability to act independently, open-mindedness, flexibility, and tact. Database management, experience querying data warehouses, experience with excel, R, Azure Structured Query Language (SQL), and Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI). Interpersonal Skills: Work independently and in a team setting. Participates effectively in interagency collaboration, public speaking, acting in a lead capacity for lab and field staff, coordinates with and has effective working relationships with all colleagues and supervisors.