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Pathways to Career Growth in NEPA
Gaining Competency Through Development Opportunities
Project Management Development Opportunities:
- Forest Service Delivered Training
- • In-person, instructor-led at local units
- • 1 day to full week
- • Low to moderate cost
- Graduate School, USDA
- • In-person, instructor-led in major cities
- • Some distance learning (online) opportunities
- • Several days to multiple weeks
- • Moderate to high cost
- • Course Examples: NEPA: Policy, Procedures and Science/Art
- US Department of Energy
- • In-person, instructor-led
- • Several days to full week
- • Moderate cost
- • Course Examples: NEPA and Environmental Regulation; NEPA Requirements Awareness; NEPA: Assessing Cumulative Effects
- Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
- • In-person, instructor-led in Durham, NC
- • 2 days to full week
- • High cost
- • Course Examples: The Law of NEPA; Socioeconomic Impact Analysis Under NEPA; Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act; Preparing and Documenting Environmental Impact Analyses; Making the NEPA Process More Efficient: Scoping & Public Participation; Accounting for Cumulative Effects in the NEPA Process
- Environmental Training & Consulting, Inc.
- • In-person, instructor-led (on-site)
- • Several days to weeks
- • High cost
- • Course Examples: Preparing NEPA Documentation; Essentials for the NEPA Practitioner; Facilitating the NEPA Process; How to Review EAs and EISs; Positive Public Involvement; Assessing Cumulative Impacts
- The Shipley Group
- • In-person, instructor-led in major cities
- • 2 days to full week
- • Moderate to high cost
- • Course Examples: Advanced Writing for NEPA Specialists; Cumulative Impact Analysis and Documentation; How to Manage the NEPA Process and Write Effective NEPA Documents; How to Manage the NEPA/CEQ Process and Write Effective NEPA Documents; Managing NEPA Projects & Teams; NEPA Cumulative Effects Analysis and Documentation; NEPA Process Management; NEPA Project and Program Management; Overview of the NEPA Process; Reviewing NEPA Documents; Team Building for NEPA Specialists
- SkillSoft Catalog
- • Online delivery
- • Several hours on average
- • Low cost
- • Course Examples: Dynamic Decision Making; Idendifying Problem Performance; Ethics in Business; Effective Team Building Strategies; Managing Multiple Priorities
- Experience Based Development Opportunities
- • Intergovernmental assignments; significant details and temporary promotion opportunities; job rotation; new positions; special projects; shadowing; internal and informal district, forest or regional training activities
- • Short- and long-term
- • Discuss these opportunities with your supervisor
- Detail Opportunities (Formal & Informal)
- • Short- and long-term
- • costs may include per diem & travel
- • Discuss these opportunities with your supervisor
- On-the-Job Opportunities
- • Special projects; internal district, forest or regional coaching; networking; partnerships; formal or informal mentoring or "shadowing" programs.
- • Short- and long-term
- • Discuss these opportunities with your supervisor
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