Position Available
Antarctic Integrated System Science Program Director
National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs
Arlington, Virginia
Application deadline: Thursday, 1 March 2012
For further information or to apply to the Career appointment, please go
to: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/305868000
For further information or to apply to the Rotator (Visiting Scientist,
IPA, or Federal Temporary) appointment, please go to:
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/305869100
The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs is seeking an
Antarctic Integrated System Science (AISS) Program Director. The
position will be based in Arlington, Virginia.
The successful candidate will have experience with interdisciplinary
science, including managing the challenges presented by such projects.
The current AISS portfolio includes projects involving glaciology,
geology, biology, and atmospheric and ocean sciences; and also includes
management of the awards for two Antarctic Long Term Ecological Research
Sites. The incumbent will manage a dynamic proposal-driven research
grants program and coordinate with other programs throughout NSF, other
funding agencies, and international partners to achieve program goals.
Science community input into an initial vision for the program can be
found at: http://tinyurl.com/SettingACourseForAISS; the current program
description is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503240&org=ANT; and the
results of a recent community effort to define important research
directions to understand the ice-sheet/ocean/atmosphere system can be
found at: http://tinyurl.com/ProjectingSLRfromLIL.
The AISS program director coordinates closely with directors of the
other Antarctic Science Programs (Astrophysics & Geospace Sciences,
Atmosphere & Ocean Sciences, Earth Science, Glaciology, and Organisms &
Ecosystems) to assure that AISS research addresses questions about the
Antarctic as a system that transcend disciplinary boundaries and are
highly integrated and broader in scope than typically addressed by the
other programs. This position may be filled as a Career appointment, a
Visiting Scientist appointment, a Federal Temporary appointment, or an
Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment.
Application deadline: Thursday, 1 March 2012.
For further information or to apply to the Career appointment, please go
to: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/305868000.
For further information or to apply to the Rotator (Visiting Scientist,
IPA, or Federal Temporary) appointment, please go to:
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/305869100.