NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGER II

Position Overview

Under administrative direction of the Section Administrator, serves as the Ag and Grasslands Program Manager.  Plans, directs, supervises, and evaluates the activities of all upland hunting programs (quail, pheasant, rabbit, and dove) and provides input on grasslands/shrubland habitat and federal Farm Bill policy.  Travels as needed for meetings and presentations. 

Job Responsibilities

1.    Under administrative direction of the Division Administrator, plans, develops, coordinates and evaluates the Ag/Grassland Wildlife Program:

• Organizes the goals and objectives of the statewide Ag/Grassland Wildlife Program for the efficacious utilization of public funds and personnel of the Program.
• Recommends establishment and implementation of policies, procedures and scientific methodologies to be used with the Upland Wildlife Management Program.
• Provides functional guidance to regional administrators relative to program needs and objects.

2.    Serves as full-line supervisor:

• Assigns and reviews work.
• Provides guidance and training to assigned staff.
• Counsels staff regarding work performance.
• Reassigns staff to meet day-to-day operating needs.
• Establishes annual goals and objectives.
• Approves time off
• Adjusts first level grievances.
• Effectively recommends and imposes discipline up to and including discharge.
• Prepares and signs performance evaluations.
• Determines and recommends staffing needs.

3.    Plans, recommends, develops, and directs new Grassland Wildlife management practices and programs for the Ag/Grassland Wildlife Program:

• Performs inspections of public and private properties to provide habitat management advise for Upland species such as pheasants, quail, rabbit, doves and grassland birds.

4.    Confers with the Division Administrator in the development and coordinator of inter-agency cooperative agreements and work tasks on an intra and inter-state basis to assure the preservation and conservation of the State's Grassland Wildlife Resources, i.e., U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Illinois Natural History Survey, Natural resource Conservation Service, Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Services, institutions of higher education and conservation agencies from other states.

5.    Prepares and presents technical reports to assess the effectiveness of new or proposed management programs of the State's Grassland Wildlife Resources.

 

Job Responsibilities (contd.)

6.    Assists the Division Administrator in the preparation of the Program's annual budget and uses discretionary authority in the annual expenditure of the appropriation within the operating regulations of the Division.

7.    Consults with the Division Administrator on conducting and evaluating research and management studies (i.e., Statewide Public Lands Habitat Development, Wildlife Action Plan - Farmland and Prairie Campaign):

• Reviews, develops and implements new techniques and recommends programs to assure compliance with State statutory and obligatory laws and regulations.
• Initiates and coordinate scientific inventories of the State's Upland Wildlife Resources for the purpose of development of management and harvest control programs.
• Reviews and recommends new administrative and fiscal techniques to improve the statewide management of the Grassland Wildlife Program.

8.    Assists the Division Administrator in amending and development of grassland wildlife resource statues and Department regulations to achieve better statewide conservation management practices:

• Explains and interprets Division Programs to the media, other agencies, conservation organizations, school groups and the general public.
• Reviews and recommends changes in Administrative Rules for regulation of upland hunting programs for approval by the Divisions Administrator.

9.    Represents the Division Administrator at assigned meetings on an intra-state basis, i.e., U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Illinois Natural History Survey, Soil Conservation Service, Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Department of Agriculture.

10.  Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.