Qualifying Professional Development Workshops and Training Sample Clauses

Qualifying Professional Development Workshops and Training. Training is defined as: Specialized training, formal education, or advanced professional learning intended to help fish and wildlife biologists maintain/improve their professional knowledge, competence, skills and effectiveness. Professional Development Workshops are defined as: Workshops established to provide a forum for fish and wildlife professionals to interact with each other on new research, management, enforcement and administrative practices, or for fish and wildlife professionals to interact with experts in other applicable fields (e.g., range management, geomorphology, energy development) and to use this new information to promote better management of species or administration of FWP. Employees must annually, within each fiscal year, complete a minimum of 8 hours of qualifying Training and/or Professional Development Workshops in EACH of the following two categories (examples of qualifying Training and Professional Development Workshops are provided in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2) during three or more fiscal years the employee has served at their current Biologist Level: Qualified training includes biologically technical trainings such as Population Sampling, Habitat Restoration Techniques, Analysis methods, and training on safe operation of equipment such as electrofishing safety, boat safety, ATV safety, and aircraft safety which would allow the biologist to perform their duties more effectively and safely. Introductory and overview-type training such as Excel for beginners, MyFWP portal, FWP Mapper and basic first-aid/CPR/Stop- the-Bleed aren’t considered qualified training. TWS/AFS and Great Plains Fisheries Workers annual plenary sessions and concurrent sessions also do not count as Professional Workshops and/or Trainings. Professional Development Workshops and Training in the above categories that qualifies to be considered by the Progression Review Committee (as described in Section 6) must meet the following criteria: a. The employee's Division Administrator must agree, in writing within 10 working days, that a prospective Professional Development Workshop or Training qualifies for consideration for progression. Employees will use the Training Approval Form and submit the form to their respective Division Administrator. As much as possible, the Division Administrators will provide approval prior to announced trainings, including what category it counts towards and number of qualifying hours. However, trainings must be approved within the f...

Qualifying Professional Development Workshops and Training. Training is defined as: Specialized training, formal education, or advanced professional learning intended to help fish and wildlife biologists maintain/improve their professional knowledge, competence, skills and effectiveness. Professional Development Workshops are defined as: Workshops established to provide a forum for fish and wildlife professionals to interact with each other on new research, management, enforcement and administrative practices, or for fish and wildlife professionals to interact with experts in other applicable fields (e.g., range management, geomorphology, energy development) and to use this new information to promote better management of species or administration of FWP. Employees must annually, within each fiscal year, complete a minimum of 8 hours of qualifying Training and/or Professional Development Workshops in EACH of the following two categories (examples of qualifying Training and Professional Development Workshops are provided in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2) during three or more fiscal years the employee has served at their current Biologist Level: Qualified training includes biologically technical trainings such as Population Sampling, Habitat Restoration Techniques, Analysis methods, and training on safe operation of equipment such as electrofishing safety, boat safety, ATV safety, and aircraft safety which would allow the biologist to perform their duties more effectively and safely. Introductory and overview-type training such as Excel for beginners, MyFWP portal, FWP Mapper and basic first-aid/CPR/Stop- the-Bleed aren’t considered qualified training. TWS/AFS and Great Plains Fisheries Workers annual plenary sessions and concurrent sessions also do not count as Professional Workshops and/or Trainings.

Qualifying Professional Development Workshops and Training. Professional Development Workshops and Training that qualifies to be considered by the Progression Review Committee (as described in Section 2) must meet the following criteria: a. The employee's immediate supervisor must agree, in writing, that a prospective Professional Development Workshop or Training is relevant to an employee's current or future job duties, will promote or maintain relevant and necessary professional skills, and/or will otherwise advance the employee's ability to execute that employee's specific duties. b. A Professional Development Workshop or Training that is mandatorily required for the routine conduct of the employee 's job duties or continued employment will not qualify as a Professional Development Workshop or Training for the purposes of this Section. c. Employees must annually complete a minimum of 8 hours of qualifying Professional Development Workshops and/or Training in each of the following two categories (examples of qualifying Training and Professional Development Workshops are provided in Table 2) during three or more years the employee has served at their current Biologist Level: