[ES_JOBS_NET] Director USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

[Kimberly Casey]

Job Opportunity: Director, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD

The Director, of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources
Observation and Science (EROS) Center, provides executive leadership,
management, and critical evaluation of the Center’s satellite mission
management, geographic research and applications development and long-term
data management projects and support activities. Other responsibilities
include:

   - Responsibility for the technical and administrative guidance and
   oversight of all scientific research, applications, engineering and
   development, and production activities conducted by EROS.
   - Represents the USGS’s interests in space mission forums.
   - Directs the activities of the EROS staff and supporting contracts,
   including the operation of satellite mission control facilities, the
   operation of associated ground receiving and processing systems;
   development of agreements with international cooperators, the operation of
   the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC); the
   management of the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; and
   the conduct of research on new remote sensing tools and their applications
   to land resource management and Earth science issues.
   - Manages USGS leadership of and/or participation in the Landsat 9, Land
   Cover Monitoring, Assessment and Projection (LCMAP), the Landfire Program,
   the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) Program, ongoing satellite mission
   operations for Landsat 7 and 8, the Famine Early Warning Systems, and
   emergency response support to disaster situations.
   - Develops and maintains cooperative and collaborative relationships
   with executives, national program coordinators and science managers
   throughout the USGS, representing all discipline areas in order to promote
   and facilitate the growth and success of integrated and multidisciplinary
   science program and projects.

Open & closing dates - 05/07/2018 to 06/08/2018

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