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Senior Information Systems 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 underlying principles and practices for information systems
projects; 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
- has full technical and managerial responsibility
for evaluating, organizing, and coordinating major information systems efforts
as a direct requirement of a scientific project, as an independent project, or
as a consequence of key technological developments;
- participates at the highest Institution level
for the development of overall scientific or information system strategies, the
identification of areas for information systems emphasis, and the formulation of
information systems techniques and strategies;
- speaks for and represents the Institution's
interests in high-level planning activities concerned with information system
developments, externally to the Institution;
- operates as a laboratory head, unit head or
independent researcher, with full supervisory and management
responsibilities;
- through research endeavors, information system
creation, 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 information systems projects.
Last updated: February 25, 2013 |
