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EDUCATION SPECIALIST, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN SOLID EARTH SCIENCES FOR STUDENTS (RESESS), UNAVCO, INC.
Interested in joining a talented and dynamic team in Boulder, CO? UNAVCO, a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy. We challenge ourselves to transform human understanding of the changing Earth by enabling the integration of innovative technologies, open geodetic observations, and research, from pole to pole. Visit our website at www.unavco.org for more information about geodesy and our work. If you are interested in joining our team apply online at www.unavco.org/careers. Please no calls from agencies or recruiters.
UNAVCO invites applications and nominations for the staff position of Education and Community Engagement Specialist, responsible for directing the internship program: Research Experiences in Solid Earth Sciences for Students (RESESS) and supporting UNAVCO efforts in increasing diversity in the geoscience workforce. We seek an individual to implement and manage the RESESS internship program from end-to-end to achieve its goal of increasing participation in the geosciences by under-represented groups. The successful candidate will be a member of the Education and Community Engagement program staff.
Responsibilities: Job responsibilities include:
• Manage the end-to-end internship process, including recruitment, selection, summer activities, event and conference support, and scholarships.
• Develop internal schedules and metrics to manage and monitor the RESESS program and its impacts.
• Work with internal staff to produce multi-media materials for reports to UNAVCO, external partners, and sponsors.
• Represent RESESS in local and national diversity networks.
• Report in a timely and effective manner to stakeholders.
• Identify funding opportunities and develop, with the RESESS Principal Investigator (PI) and other advisors, proposals for
external support.
• Represent RESESS effectively within UNAVCO to ensure widespread and enthusiastic participation.
Working Relationships: Internal: Reports to the ECE Program Director, interacts and collaborates with peers and colleagues across the organization, and is supported by an administrative assistant.
External: Routinely interacts with external constituencies especially science community members, students, educators at many levels, graphic design professionals or public policy constituencies. May interact with vendors through the Purchasing Agent, as required to clarify procurement requirements.
Required Education and Experience
• Master’s degree
• Research experience
• Demonstrated organizational ability, and
• Effective oral and written communication skills with diverse stakeholders including scientists, sponsors, industry professionals and co-workers.
Preferred Qualifications
• Ph.D.
UNAVCO Information: UNAVCO is a university -governed consortium that is uniquely positioned to advance and support the geodetic community's scientific goals. UNAVCO has over 100 US academic members and 70+ associate members that share its mission and benefit from its programs and services. Before incorporation in 2001, UNAVCO existed for nearly two decades as the University Navstar Consortium, primarily serving geophysicists and geodesists who study tectonic deformation using high-precision GPS technology. Over the past decade, UNAVCO’s scope has expanded significantly, serving new science communities – including those who focus on the deformation of ice sheets and glaciers, Earth’s response to ground water, sea level, and other aspects of the hydrosphere, and imaging the structure of the atmosphere. Methods available to the science community and supported by UNAVCO have expanded to include many new geodetic tools: mm-level global GPS geodesy and streaming high rate GPS observations; borehole strain meters and seismometers, and geodetic imaging using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging ) for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), and Terrestrial Laser Scanning. UNAVCO is also active in developing web services and cyberinfrastructure. GPS is finding new applications in a frequency range of ground deformation that used to be the sole provenance of seismology, by moving from one solution per day to one solution per second, with high precision. UNAVCO's role in these areas is part of a strategy to meet the future needs of the science community.
This is a replacement, full-time, term position funded through September 2014, with possibility of extension. The position is based at UNAVCO’s Main Office in Boulder, Colorado, one of the finest living environments in the West.
Applications: To complete your application, please apply online at www.unavco.org/careers and submit a PDF that contains:
• letter of application,
• vita,
• statement of geoscience education interests and experience, and
• names and contact information for three or more professional references.
Questions should be directed to Human Resources. Additional information is available on UNAVCO’s web page at www.unavco.org.
Screening Date: Screening of applicants will begin February 18, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. UNAVCO is an Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity organization, with a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and, in that spirit, seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans, and persons of disability. Persons of disability may request accommodation during the application and/or interview process through Human Resources by calling 303-381-7515.
