Science Coordinator Vacancy at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

We have a term Science Coordinator GS-0401-12/13 vacancy announcement out
for all sources which closes on Dec 1. The purpose of the position is to
facilitate implementation of the Strategic Framework for Science
in Support of Management in the Southern Sierra Nevada Ecoregion. This is
a really exciting opportunity to figure out how to take an ecoregional
approach to adapting to climate change.

Significant scientific evidence suggests that the southern Sierra Nevada
ecoregion is exhibiting the affects of accelerated climate-driven change.
As a result, local National Park Service and US Forest Service managers
have adopted a strategic framework for science in support of a
collaborative regional resources management response. The function of this
term position is to firmly ground and launch this pioneering venture.

The position leads multiple initiatives/projects and forges
cross-disciplinary scientific alliances with an array of government
entities at all levels, universities, and non-governmental scientific
organizations to provide scientific leadership for a coordinated regional
response to varied and uncertain future environmental conditions caused by
accelerated climatic change. The position leads, coordinates and
supervises the design and application of novel and advanced ecological and
related natural resource science discipline principles, concepts and
practices to develop novel (untested) biological and physical resource
management paradigms, and to coordinate formulation of new (unprecedented)
application analogs for the conservation of native biodiversity, ecosystem
integrity and natural processes evolution within the southern Sierra Nevada
ecoregion. The incumbent will not conduct research, but instead will
facilitate and coordinate the research and science activities of others and
insure that transparent, high quality and defensible science based
information and tools are delivered.

The vacancy announcement on USAJobs is SEKI 29434.

For more information please contact:
Charisse Sydoriak
Chief, Division of Resources Management and Science
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
559-565-3120