[ES_JOBS_NET] Research Manager - Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota

[Christine Wiedinmyer]

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Qualifications

Required qualifications:
Minimum of MS degree in geophysics, geology, physics, or related fields with
6 years work related experience or Ph.D. in rock- or paleomagnetism, or
related fields (e.g. geophysics, geology, physics) and 3 years of
experience.

Preferred qualifications:
Ph.D. in rock- or paleomagnetism, or related fields (e.g. geophysics,
geology, physics) is preferred, but exceptional candidates with a M.S. in
same fields and commensurate experience will also be considered.

About the Job

Institute for Rock Magnetism Facility Manager

Essential Functions:

1.     Working directly with visiting researchers, training them in specimen
prep, instrument usage, experimental protocols, and data
processing/analysis/interpretation as needed. The IRM Visiting Fellows
program annually brings 15-20 scientists from institutions worldwide to our
facility for intensive 10-day research visits, and our Guest Researchers
program generally accounts for an additional 100-150 visitor-days per year
in shorter stays. The US Student Fellows program involves extensive
one-on-one interaction with young researchers, integrating education and
research. The IRM has 12 major research instruments, and visiting scientists
in all of the categories listed above commonly need technical assistance in
various aspects of their use, as well as higher-level support in
experimental design and analysis of results. (25%)

2.     Managing facility finances and administration of the IRM Visiting
Fellows Program and Guest Researchers Program. Visiting Fellows are selected
via a competitive proposal process (see #3 below), and are awarded $4000
from facility operational funds to cover a portion of their travel costs and
to offset some or all of the instrument-usage fees charged to Guest
Researchers and other facility users. The IRM facility manager advertises
Visiting Fellowship application procedures and deadlines; receives
Fellowship proposals and distributes them for review; tabulates evaluations
and meets with IRM faculty and staff to select Fellows; coordinates the
schedules of visiting researchers; and handles the billing and travel
reimbursements, as appropriate, for facility users. (10%)

3.     Participating with IRM's faculty and staff in extramural funding
proposals and with IRM's external Review and Advisory Committee (RAC) in
strategic planning and in evaluation of Visiting Fellow proposals. Facility
operations are funded by 3-year or 5-year grants from the Instruments and
Facilities Program at NSF. Additional support for instrument acquisition and
for the Santa Fe Conferences (see #4 below) requires additional proposal
submissions. The IRM facility manager collaborates with IRM faculty and
staff in writing these proposals (on average one per year) and assembling
supplementary information; this is in addition to separate proposals for
funding specific research projects. Strategic planning for the facility
involves regular meetings with the external Review and Advisory Committee,
biennially on-site and more frequently in conjunction with
professional-society meetings like AGU and the Santa Fe conferences on rock
magnetism. (10%)

4.     Co-organizing the biennial (odd years) Santa Fe Conference on Rock
Magnetism and the biennial (even years) International Summer School in Rock
Magnetism. Santa Fe conference organizing, in collaboration with IRM faculty
and staff and with some input from the RAC, begins with selection of
themes/topics for the keynote and working sessions, and enlisting of
chairs/conveners to help in putting together the individual sessions; and
inviting speakers for each of the sessions. The IRM facility manager is also
responsible for coordinating with personnel at the meeting venue (most often
St John's College in Santa Fe) on rooming, meals, and conference-room needs;
for making arrangements for a group field trip; for handling travel
reimbursements for keynote and other invited speakers. Organization of the
Summer School involves getting a registration site set up and collecting
registration fees; collaborating on development of the lecture and lab
curriculum; making on-campus housing arrangements for the students; and
processing student travel awards funded by AGU. (15%)

5.     Facility infrastructural support. Reconfiguring and recalibrating
instruments as needed for particular measurements; liquid helium transfers
and other routine instrument maintenance; software support, database
development and programming. The IRM facility database provides secure
archival of all measurement data, as well as a variety of software tools for
data processing and analysis. (25%)

6.     Research and synergistic activities. Carrying out independent
research in rock- and mineral magnetism, presenting results at professional
society meetings and publishing in peer-reviewed journals; reviewing
proposals for NSF and other funding agencies and reviewing articles for
scientific journals; serving on dissertation committees. (15%)

About the Department

The Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) is funded by the National Science
Foundation as one of 22 Multi-User Facilities for Earth Science research, in
which advanced instrumentation and expertise are maintained and made
available to scientists from the (inter)national geoscience research
community for studies using specialized techniques, in this case sensitive
magnetic measurements of natural materials, to characterize the
compositions, concentrations and particle-size distributions of constituent
magnetic minerals and their relation to geologic processes; to study their
magnetic memory and their time-, temperature and field-dependent behavior in
controlled experiments; to quantify their orientation distributions by
measurements of magnetic anisotropy; and to investigate the microscale
physical processes within individual magnetic particles that govern the
macroscopic magnetic behavior of bulk natural materials. The purposes of the
position of Facility Manager are to administer the visiting researcher
programs; to manage the facility financial operations; to work with visiting
scientists and assist with training in instrument usage, specimen
preparation, experimental design, data analysis and interpretation; to help
maintain the hardware and software resources of the facility; to participate
with IRM faculty and staff in the planning, management and supervision of
facility operations and in preparing extramural funding proposals; and to
carry out independent research.

How To Apply

Applications must be submitted online.  To be considered for this position,
please click the Apply button and follow the instructions.  You will be
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