Employment
Candidates for the jobs listed below must apply through UC Santa Barbara at the provided link.
Current Job Openings
The Ocean Health Index (OHI) measures the health of coasts and oceans along many dimensions, leveraging existing monitoring and reporting data. Global scores are conducted through the Global Fellows program, based at the NCEAS. We seek a Project Coordinator to help run the Global Fellows program. With supervision from the existing OHI team, tasks involve training the Fellows in data science and OHI tools during spring, supporting Fellows analyses during the summer and fall, and helping launch scores at the end of the year.
Apply at: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01777
NCEAS invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary Data Fellows (Junior Specialist positions) to engage in data science projects relating to environmental science. These projects may include organization and analysis of data sets, developing software and libraries in support of ecological synthesis and data science projects, and/or creating learning curricula for enhance data literacy across the community.
Apply at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01755
NCEAS and COMPASS, a science communication nonprofit, are seeking a full-time Science Communication Liaison to expand the reach and impact of science produced at NCEAS and support COMPASS’s work to champion, connect, and support diverse science leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature. You will be embedded within and based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, CA, working closely with members of the COMPASS team, both in-person and remotely.
Apply at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01754
The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, in partnership with NCEAS, invites applications for a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment (LPSOE) position, to start July 1, 2020. This position will support the newly formed Master's of Environmental Data Science program, with activites and instruction at both NCEAS and Bren. A LPSOE is a tenure-track faculty member whose primary responsibility is teaching and teaching-related tasks and secondary responsibility is professional and/or scholarly achievement and activities, especially as they relate to instruction and pedagogy. LPSOEs also have responsibility for University and public service.
Apply at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01728
NCEAS is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Internships
Our internships are open only to undergraduate and graduate students at UC Santa Barbara.
Science Communication Fellowship
Our Science Communication Fellowship is a paid internship that is open to all UCSB students. It provides the opportunity to build professional experience in communicating the value of science for solutions to pressing environmental challenges.
Data Internships
Do you want to learn best practices in data science and open science, while contributing to real synthesis research projects?
NCEAS data internships include training, mentorship, and the opportunity to collaborate with scientists. Most internships will include working with GitHub, R/RStudio/RMarkdown, or Python/Jupyter Notebooks. Interns are paid an hourly wage and must work at NCEAS' office in downtown Santa Barbara.
We regularly hire data interns to support the following initiatives. If you apply for more than one internship at the same time, please indicate that in your cover letter.
Data Internship Opportunities
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Working Group Support
Support the management and analysis of environmental data for working groups of the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) and the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network.
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Ocean Health Index
Learn how to weave open data science principles into marine science and conservation.
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Arctic Data Center
Learn new data management tools by documenting and archiving important ecological, physical, and social data from research projects focused on environmental issues (e.g., climate, fisheries, wildlife, geochemistry, etc.) in Alaska and the Arctic.
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