Cultural Liaison - USFWS Pacific Islands Fish & Wildlife Office

Cultural Liaison - US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) Pacific Islands Fish & Wildlife Office (PIFWO)

To apply you must visit USAJOBS. Please note that in USAJOBS the position is titled as Program Support Specialist. Deadline is 5/11/2023 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

• - https://www.usajobs.gov/job/722461400 DE Job announcement (for the general public)

• - https://www.usajobs.gov/job/722458500  Merit Promotion Job announcement

The Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office (PIFWO) is pleased to share the advertisement for the Cultural Liaison position on USAJOBS. This non-supervisory GS-0301-12 position will be stationed in Honolulu but work on natural resource issues across the US Pacific Islands and the Freely Associated States.

The duties of the position include:

• - Establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with Native Hawaiian organizations, and indigenous Pacific Islander organizations, committees, etc., relative to pertinent Service programs, projects, initiatives, etc., as they interact with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander interests.

• - Serves as Pacific Island Fish and Wildlife Office's (PIFWO) primary liaison with the indigenous cultures of Hawai'i, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

• - Applying an Indigenous lens to creating or analyzing data and information-indigenizing the ways information is being collected, analyzed, used, and shared - in order to respect Native Hawaiian self-determination, cultures, languages, and ways of living, being, and knowing.

• - Working closely with Native Hawaiians and indigenous Pacific Islanders to facilitate collaboration and open communication between indigenous Pacific Islander groups and the Service, and to provide technical assistance as needed.

• - Exercising sound judgment in recognizing and treating sensitive issues of local community, regional and national concern.

• - Keeping key management officials informed of sensitive and/or potentially controversial program issues and problems.

More about the Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office: 

This position is in Honolulu, Hawai'i.  In the Pacific Islands, Oʻahu is the most populated island in Hawaiʻi and Hawaiʻi is the most isolated State in the union. There is a mix of cultures, many ecological challenges, and it is one of the more (if not the most) expensive places to live in the country.  The area the Pacific Islands Office covers is larger than all the rest of the United States (including Alaska), though the land mass is quite small by comparison. The geographic range includes the State of Hawaiʻi, the Territory of American Sāmoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office has approximately 75 employees and actively develops partnerships and creative solutions for diverse and complex natural resource issues to recover and protect habitats, landscapes, fish, wildlife, and plants across the Pacific Islands. You can visit the PIFWO website to learn more about our work. 

This position is located in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and is telework eligible. Please assist us in recruiting a diverse pool of well-qualified candidates by circulating this announcement widely. If anyone has any questions on the position, they are welcome to reach out to Benton Pang (benton_pang@fws.gov) or Michelle Bogardus (Michelle_Bogardus@fws.gov). The recruitment closes on May 11, 2023.