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<b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">The position closes March 15, 2013. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal"><</span><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/336204100" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/336204100</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">Questions can be directed to Henry Gholz, Chair of the Search Committee (</span><a href="mailto:hgholz@nsf.gov" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal" target="_blank">hgholz@nsf.gov</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">), or to the other members of the committee: Linda Deegan, Doug Levey, Bill Zamer.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal">
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Agency:</strong><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(133,0,0)">National Science Foundation</span></p>
</div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Job Announcement Number:</strong><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(133,0,0)">DEB-2013-0001</span></p>
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SALARY RANGE:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif;word-wrap:break-word">$105,211.00 to $163,957.00 / Per Year</span></td>
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OPEN PERIOD:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif">Wednesday, January 23, 2013 to Friday, March 15, 2013</span></td>
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SERIES & GRADE:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif;word-wrap:break-word">AD-0401-04</span></td>
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POSITION INFORMATION:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif">Full-time. - Permanent.</span></td>
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PROMOTION POTENTIAL:</h3><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif">04</span></td>
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DUTY LOCATIONS:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif">Few vacancies in the following location:<br>
Arlington, VA, US<a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/336204100#" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(0,109,168);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:0.917em;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,109,168);text-decoration:initial;line-height:1.636em" target="_blank">View Map</a><br>
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WHO MAY APPLY:</h3></td><td style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;display:inline-block;width:400px;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,san-serif">Applications will be accepted from US Citizens. Due to a recent change in Federal Appropriations Law, only Non-Citizens who are permanent US residents and actively seeking citizenship can be considered. Therefore, you are required to provide documentation that confirms you are actively seeking citizenship at the time you submit your application. Non-citizens who do not provide documentation will not be considered.</span></td>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">Become a part of our mission to maintain and strengthen the vitality of the US science and engineering enterprise. For over 60 years, the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/about/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(0,109,168);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:0.917em;color:rgb(0,109,168);text-decoration:initial;line-height:1.636em;display:inline-block" target="_blank">National Science Foundation</a> (NSF) has remained the premier Federal agency supporting basic research at the frontiers of discovery across all fields, as well as science and engineering education at all levels.</p>
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</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">The NSF is seeking candidates for Program Director in the Ecosystem Studies Program within the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) in Arlington, VA.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports fundamental research on populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patterns and processes at all spatial and temporal scales. Areas of research include biodiversity, phylogenetic systematics, molecular evolution, life history evolution, natural selection, ecology, biogeography, ecosystem services, conservation biology, global change, and biogeochemical cycles. Research on origins, functions, relationships, interactions, and evolutionary history may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative experiments; synthesis activities; as well as theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or simulation modeling.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">The Ecosystem Studies Program (ES) </strong>supports investigations of ecosystem structure and function across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including paleo) scales to advance understanding of: 1) material and energy fluxes and transformations within and among ecosystems; 2) roles and relationships of ecosystem components in whole-system structure and function; 3) ecosystem dynamics, resilience, and trajectories of ecosystem change through time; and 4) linkages among ecosystems in space, time, and across spatial and temporal scales.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">The ES program supports research on natural, managed, and disturbed ecosystems, including those in terrestrial, freshwater, wetland, coastal (including salt marsh and mangrove), and human-dominated environments. Proposals may focus on areas such as: biogeochemical cycling and elemental budgets; primary and secondary productivity; roles of species in ecosystem functioning; stoichiometric relationships; climate-ecosystem feedbacks; impacts of climate and global environmental change on ecosystems; energy and radiatively active gas fluxes; ecosystem services; and landscape dynamics. Proposals may address the cycling of non-nutrient elements, but proposals specifically ecotoxicological in orientation, or without an explicit link to ecosystem processes, will not be considered. Ecosystem-oriented proposals with coastal marine, deep ocean, or Laurentian Great Lakes study sites are reviewed by the Biological Oceanography Program in the Division of Ocean Sciences. Studies of the structure and dynamics of food webs are commonly co-reviewed with the Population and Community Ecology program in the Division of Environmental Biology.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">The ES program encourages a diversity of research approaches. Observational studies and manipulative experiments in field, mesocosm, and laboratory settings are supported, with the expectation that the research, whether hypothesis- or discovery-driven, has a strong conceptual foundation. Inter- and multi-disciplinary proposals that fall across traditional programmatic boundaries are welcomed and encouraged; ES often co-reviews proposals with other programs across the Foundation. Proposals that incorporate quantitative or conceptual modeling efforts are encouraged, particularly those promoting integration and synthesis or advancing ecosystem science through either the pursuit of new theoretical paradigms or novel modeling approaches. Proposals that, in whole or part, strive to develop new techniques can be supported when a compelling argument exists that there is the potential for a major advance in ecosystem science. Projects that are potentially transformative -- that is, those that may change the conceptual basis of ecosystem science and have broad implications for future research -- are given particular priority. The program funds proposals submitted in response to the CAREER, RCN, LTREB and OPUS solicitations. It also funds conference and workshop proposals, requests for supplemental funding, and RAPID and EAGER applications.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">For more information about DEB and its Programs, please visit <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=DEB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(0,109,168);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:0.917em;color:rgb(0,109,168);text-decoration:initial;line-height:1.636em;display:inline-block" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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The responsibilities of the Program Director include long-range planning and budget development for the areas of science represented by the program or program cluster, the administration of the peer review process and proposal recommendations, the preparation of press releases, feature articles and material describing advances in the research supported, and coordination and liaison with other programs in NSF, other Federal agencies and organizations. Additional duties and responsibilities include the following:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">PROGRAM PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial">
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Maintains a healthy balance of support for all the needs of the research and education enterprise through program, division, directorate, Foundation, or interagency activities.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Manages program resources to provide optimal appropriate scientific judgment to insure integrity and consistency in the grant/declination process without conflicts of interest, and with balance among appropriate sub-fields and institutions, and participation of all qualified scientists.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Manages an effective, timely merit review process, with attention to increasing the size and quality of the reviewer pools and insuring participation by women, minorities and disabled scientists.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Provides scientific expertise, evaluation and advice for other programs in NSF, including international programs, and other research programs, and cross-directorate programs.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Advises and assists in the development of short-and-long range plans, establishing goals and objectives for support of research programs.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Plans the budget for the program considering past, present and future fiscal years, allocates resources within the budget by distributing scarce resources among competitive projects, and manages post-award evaluation.</li>
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REPRESENTATION, COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">
Represents the Program, Division and the Foundation within the scientific community, with other NSF Divisions, with other appropriate agencies and organizations, and with the public, accurately reflecting NSF policy and positions.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Creates and maintains linkages to other NSF units and other Federal agencies in pursuit of the overall NSF mission.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Participates in staff, panel, committee and other meetings, providing input relevant to program area and/or Division.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Pursues affirmative action and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) goals.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Pursues and/or is responsive to assignment on special projects and temporary function teams across the Foundation to solve problems, improve staff communication, and effect coordination for special programs.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Contributes ideas and effort to improving the quality of policies and NSF's performance of the overall mission.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Prepares and disseminates a variety of informational documents which may include data on progress being made toward NSF goals, trends and opportunities papers, and budget plans.</li>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Establishes contacts and maintains active involvement in Program and related areas through participation in professional activities.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Maintains familiarity with salient current research developments.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Pursues individual research as workload and travel funds permit.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Expands administrative capabilities through training courses or assumption of new management.</li>
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Applicants must possess a Ph.D. in biology or a related field with an emphasis in ecosystem science. In addition applicants must have six or more years of successful research, research administration, and/or managerial experience beyond the Ph.D. in this scientific area.</p>
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HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.5em">
You will be evaluated on the extent and quality of your experience, expertise, education, and research activities relevant to the duties of the position.<br><br>We strongly encourage you to specifically address the Quality Ranking Factors below. This will ensure that you receive full consideration in the evaluation process.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:underline">Quality Ranking Factors</span></p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial">
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Demonstrated broad knowledge and understanding of scientific principles, theories and technologies applicable to the biological sciences in general, ecosystem science in particular.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Research, analytical and technical writing skills, evidencing the ability to perform extensive inquiry into a wide variety of significant issues and to make recommendations and decisions based on findings.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Ability to organize, implement and manage a proposal-driven grant program, allocating resources to meet a broad spectrum of program goals.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Knowledge of management and organizational concepts, principles, practices and techniques, with expertise in research administration.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Ability to interact with the scientific community and peers, and to advocate program policies and plans.</li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 2px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1em;color:rgb(69,68,66);line-height:1.333em">Understanding of, and dedication to, the promotion of both intellectual merit and broader impacts of research and education activities.</li>
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A GREAT LOCATION! The National Science Foundation is conveniently located one block from the Ballston Metro Station, a few blocks from Routes 66 and 50, and about three miles from downtown Washington. Employees may rent parking spaces in the building garage. There are many shops and restaurants within easy walking distance. Employees receive the Federal benefits package and NSF offers:</p>
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• Child development center on site<br>• Child care subsidy<br>• Flexible working hours<br>• Telecommuting<br>• Physical fitness facility on site<br>• NSF Federal Credit Union on site<br>
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Relocation expenses will be paid, contingent upon availability of funds.<br>
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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gholz, Henry L.</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hgholz@nsf.gov" target="_blank">hgholz@nsf.gov</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:13 PM<br>Subject: [CCIWG] Search for Permanent PO for Ecosystem Sciences Cluster (BIO/DEB)<br><br>Please make your communities aware of this opportunity. The position closes March 15, 2013.<br>
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Questions can be directed to Henry Gholz, Chair of the Search Committee (<a href="mailto:hgholz@nsf.gov" target="_blank">hgholz@nsf.gov</a>), or to the other members of the committee: Linda Deegan, Doug Levey, Bill Zamer.<br>
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Also, please let me know of any email list serves or individuals you contact about this position so that I can keep a proper record.<br>
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