[ES_JOBS_NET] Three positions available for a $10M USDA funded project

[christine.wiedinmyer.ucar at gmail.com]

Project Manager, IT Developer, and Project Coordinator for a USDA NIFA
Project Entitled "Improving Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management
to Sustain Food and Energy Crops Production in the Corn Belt"

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

University of Maryland College Park

 

 

We are seeking qualified applicants for three full-time research faculty
positions to support the finance, communication, extension, education, data
sharing, and management of a new $10M project funded by the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA)/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
(NIFA). The project's five-year goal is to develop a predictive decision
support Dashboard for Agricultural Water use and Nutrient management (DAWN)
to sustain food and energy crop production in the Corn Belt. The research
faculty staff will support the Project Director (PD), Professor Xin-Zhong
Liang, to manage project execution in integrating the research, extension
and education activities among an interdisciplinary team in the University
of Maryland and six partner institutions. For all three positions, salary is
commensurate with experience and University benefits will be included. Their
key responsibilities include:

1.     The Project Manager will: (a) assist project budget planning details
and balance; (b) develop internal and external communication strategy,
including the development of website content, the use of social media
platforms and outreach to the media; (c) monitor project progress across all
collaborative institutions; (d) organize team-wide DAWN system development
(including science models, decision support tools and information delivery),
knowledge transfer (i.e. extension to agricultural stakeholders), and
experiential training activities; (e) build external partnerships; (f)
manage the research faculty staff to provide effective support to all
activities operated by the project management team; (g) organize all
relevant information and assisting the project management team for the
completion and delivery of the annual progress report to the USDA NIFA
program manager.

2.     The IT Developer will be in charge of all software engineering tasks:
(a) developing the decision support system (DSS) tools and information
delivery system (IDS) web service capable of machine learning; (b) running
system forecasts; (c) maintaining the project database and the research
website; (d) coordinating with the IT support persons of the partner
institutions in developing the interfaces among the coupled modeling system,
the progressive database, the DSS models, the DSS tools, the IDS web
service, and the users; (e) updating the DAWN data management plan and
ensuring effective data sharing among the science team and stakeholders.

3.     The Project Coordinator will (a) monitor and track due dates and
anticipated outcomes; (b) organize program meetings and conferences,
including developing agenda and meeting material as well as taking and
summarizing the minutes; (c) support the undergraduate internship
application process and maintain the records of graduate/undergraduate
student and intern activities; (d) compile and synthesize all materials for
the semi-annual and annual reports and internal and external reviews; (e)
coordinate workflow of non-exempt staff and student employees, and ensure
adherence to campus and sponsor procedures and policies.

 

Qualifications:

Applicants for the Project Manager position must hold a degree, M.S. or
Ph.D. preferred, in atmospheric, hydrologic, agricultural, climate or
related sciences, with at least 5 years of relevant experience in an active
research environment. Applicants should possess strong management and
communication skills and demonstrated experience with the use of social
media tools for public engagement and outreach is strongly preferred.
Excellent spoken and written English is required.

Applicants for the IT Developer position should hold a bachelor's or
master's degree in computer science. They must have experience and skill in
scientific and web programming, data management and visualization, such as
F90, C, Python, JSON, PHP, jQuery, MySQL, Apache, Scikit-Learn and other
machine learning tools on HPC or Cloud-based platforms.

Applicants for the Project Coordinator position should have strong
administrative organizing and communication skills. Applicants should be
skillful in the use of Microsoft Office and Adobe tools, as well as project
management and other online or in-person conferencing software. They must be
able to maintain effective communication with the entire project team
(investigators and students) as well as stakeholders to promote broad
engagement and outreach. Prior experience managing research projects is
preferred. Excellent spoken and written English is required.

To apply:

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, and contact
information for three references to Professor Xin-Zhong Liang at
xliang at umd.edu <mailto:xliang at umd.edu> . These positions are available
immediately, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the
positions are filled.

 

 

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