Wildlife Habitat Group Manager

As a Wildlife Habitat Group Manager with the Pennsylvania Game Commission - Southcentral Region, you will help shape healthy environments for a variety of species. This role blends leadership, fieldwork, and long-term planning in order to guide projects that improve habitats and support safe land use. This position offers meaningful work that strengthens Pennsylvania's natural resources!

In this role, your work focuses on planning, directing, and reviewing habitat projects, land management activities, and staff operations within the Southcentral Region. As a Wildlife Habitat Group Manager, you will perform the following duties:

• Project Oversight: Plan and supervise habitat work, maintenance activities, and construction across assigned lands
• Staff Leadership: Guide crew operations, review reports, and ensure compliance with standards and procedures
• Land Management: Coordinate surveys, property research, and land acquisition reviews for game lands
• Environmental Coordination: Work with forestry staff, engineers, and agencies on reclamation, timber activities, and habitat planning
• Compliance Monitoring: Inspect facilities, oversee licensing requirements, and ensure safe handling of chemicals and equipment
• Record Administration: Maintain documentation, prepare summaries, and manage budget and purchasing activities

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information:

• Full-time employment, 40 hours per week
• Work hours are 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Home Headquartered: This position is home headquartered within Perry County and parts of Juniata and Snyder County. In order to be home headquartered, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• Two years of professional natural resource management experience; and a bachelor's degree in natural resource management, parks and recreation, biology, forestry, ecology, geosciences, environmental sciences, wildlife management, or a closely related field; or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.

Special Requirements:

• You must possess an active motor vehicle operator's license.
• You must obtain a Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator certification within the employee probationary period.
• You must successfully complete Wildland Type 2 Firefighter (FFT2) training, including successfully completing a Moderate (or Arduous) level Work Capacity Test (WCT) within the employee probationary period.

Additional Requirements:

• You must reside within Perry County or within specific eligible areas of Juniata and Snyder Counties.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Legal Requirements:

• This position falls under the provisions of the Child Protective Services Law.
  • Under the Law, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports including, but not limited to, PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse history clearance, and FBI Fingerprint clearance.

How to Apply:

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
• All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant's own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.

Veterans:

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. *7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.

Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.

The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply