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Senior Research Specialist |
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Recognized as a leader in the field by functioning as an independent researcher
or manager. Has full responsibility for project tasks requiring application of
management skills and authoritative knowledge of appropriate scientific
principles and practices in the laboratory and/or field; uses and creates
advanced techniques and instrumentation, and creates modifications and
extensions of theories, precepts, and practices relevant to the field in which
the incumbent is recognized as a leading authority, and/or provides management
and superior leadership of a group of technical staff members.
Characteristic Duties
- exercises full technical and
managerial responsibility for initiating, organizing, coordinating, executing,
and interpreting required research to achieve stated scientific goals and
furthering the scientific discipline;
- initiates and is responsible for
independent writing of reports, research papers, and proposals, and/or provides
documentation of research results;
- speaks for and represents the
Institution's interests in high-level planning activities concerned with
technical and research developments, externally to the Institution;
- operates as a laboratory head, unit
head, or independent researcher with full supervisory and management
responsibilities;
- through research endeavors and the
preparation of research results and reports, contributes important techniques
and designs that significantly impact the ways different aspects of ocean
science are performed.
Desired Qualifications
Appropriate academic background or its equivalent relevant work experience,
enhanced by more than 15 years of increasingly successful and creative
achievement. Candidates for this rank are recognized as leaders and authorities
in their field through their original contributions. They must have had
far-reaching impact on the scientific activities of the Institution and their
field. They should have demonstrated high levels of creativity and independence
(i.e., a record of superior accomplishment--such as patents, publications, or
documented instrumentation--which provides objective evidence of original
professional contributions) with foresight and judgment in planning, organizing,
and guiding extensive and complex scientific projects.
Last updated: February 25, 2013 |
