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Staff Scientist - Carlisle, United States - Dickinson College

Dickinson College

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Carlisle, United States

4 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

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Dickinson College is a premier four-year residential liberal arts institution chartered in 1783 and widely recognized as a leader in global and sustainability education.

Dickinson College is located in Carlisle, named a "most livable city" by Forbes and minutes from the state capital of Harrisburg.

The campus is connected to a vibrant downtown that offers eclectic dining, shopping and entertainment options. Within a two-hour drive are Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.; New York City is three hours away.

Dickinson College offers full time employees a broad range of Benefits including a comprehensive medical insurance plan, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, generous time off, parental leave, homebuyer assistance, and tuition benefits for eligible employees and dependent children under the age of 24.

Upon eligibility, the College contributes 8% of an employee's base salary to a retirement account with an additional.5% matching contribution; all money paid by the college into the employee's retirement plan is immediately and fully vested in the employee.

In our ongoing efforts to support the health of our community, Dickinson College strongly encourages all members of the campus community to be up to date on CDC-recommended vaccines.

Position Information
Posting Number
S01526
Position Title
Staff Scientist
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Staff Scientist
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Academic Affairs
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Allarm PDF

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Job Summary/Basic Function

- :An important role that ALLARM plays for communities is ensuring that community science techniques are accessible for volunteers and rooted in strong science. The ALLARM staff scientist will work with the ALLARM team to maintain the organization's scientific integrity and credibility through research and resource development. They will also develop and implement community and college resources, in collaboration with the team and supervising student staff.
This is a two-year appointment, future employment contingent upon grants.

Essential Functions:

Research and develop resources that strengthen ALLARM's aquatic science methodology for engaging volunteer monitors in all steps of the scientific process to do water quality monitoring, data interpretation, and data use, compare approaches within the field, and identify recommendations to strengthen the program.
Collaboratively work with the ALLARM team to develop new technical assistance resources. Create educational resources, workshops, monitoring methods manuals, quality assurance project plans, and educational resources.
Provide technical and programmatic support to 12 of ALLARM's community partners and/or Stream Team volunteer scientists.
Conduct analysis (R/RStudio, GIS) on data generated by volunteer scientists to support the data interpretation experience.
Supervise ALLARM student research team.
Foster collaborations with faculty in and out of the classroom to provide opportunities for curriculum enhancement and faculty involvement.
Participate in and represent ALLARM in regional partnerships/coalitions (e.g. National Fish & Wildlife Foundation' Restoration Monitoring Program, Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watershed and/or Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative).
Support grant and report writing.

Preferred Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor's Degree - Aquatic science, geoenvironmental science, environmental science, chemistry, or biology.
Valid Driver's License
3-5 years work experience

Preferred:

Master's Degree - Aquatic science, geoenvironmental science, environmental science, chemistry, or biology.
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A valid Driver's Licence is required. Employees (operators) must have been in possession of a valid operator's license for not less than three (3) years and the license must have been in good standing without interruption during that time period.

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This position is considered "Emergency Staff." As such they may be required to report to work even when the college is closed or is operating under a delayed start.
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