Employment
We are excited to have you join our team! Note: candidates for the jobs listed below must apply through UC Santa Barbara at the provided link.
Current Job Openings
Are you passionate about bringing broad and diverse communities together around environmental science and ecology? Do you want to support and promote engagement with cutting-edge environmental science programs and data science initiatives? Do you excel at connecting people and ideas and strategically building relationships across diverse groups?
NCEAS and our Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office seek a Community Engagement Officer to lead initiatives to support and expand our existing networks and create new connections across science and management groups.
Your primary responsibilities will be to:
Lead NCEAS strategic community engagement efforts across diverse environmental science and ecology projects and audiences
- Help develop guidance and best practices around collaboration and inclusion in environmental synthesis and open data science
- Lead community engagement activities across a broad range of NCEAS-based projects
Advance NCEAS efforts to expand and enrich participation in environmental data science, synthesis science, and ecology and steward our DEIJ Strategic Plan
- Serve as a knowledge resource and share lessons learned and other outcomes with the scientific community and broader public
- Lead process for identifying and securing additional funds to implement DEIJ-oriented goals at NCEAS and beyond
Manage and guide the LTER Network Public Engagement with Science (PES) Working Group and Advisory Committee
- Work with LTER investigators, and site-based engagement managers to develop and share lessons learned and emerging practices in community engagement with science as part of a newly-funded project
- Assist with development of a system for assessing and evaluating community engagement
- Maintain and expand project website and resource library
POSITION OVERVIEW
Position title: NCEAS-LTER Community Engagement Officer
Salary range: Academic Coordinator I, See Table 36 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $70-$80K annual.
Full benefits package included.
Percent time: 100%
Find out more and apply here
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is seeking a Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for our open science projects, with an emphasis on community building, communications, and data science training for the Arctic Data Center.
The candidate’s primary work focus will be with the Arctic Data Center, with the potential to contribute to other projects and activities at NCEAS as the needs of the projects and Center change. NCEAS leads, operates, and/or collaborates on many nationally-scoped research programs, including the Permafrost Discovery Gateway and DataONE. The Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator will support a national effort to coordinate community engagement around the Arctic Data Center. Activities will include representation of the projects through written communications, presentations, participation in meetings and conferences, webinars, exhibitor events, social media and in the development of promotional and educational materials. These activities focus on generating meaningful engagement of target communities, increasing awareness of the project, and soliciting feedback. Activities are designed to support users, build engagement, and develop a community of practice around the Arctic Data Center. The Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator has responsibility for conducting community engagement and outreach activities in a manner consistent with the philosophy, mission, policies and procedures of the Arctic Data Center and NCEAS. The individual will report to the Director of Research and Development, Informatics while working closely with leadership and team members at the Arctic Data Center, NCEAS, and other NCEAS programs.
POSITION OVERVIEW
Position title: NCEAS Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator
Salary range: Academic Coordinator I, See Table 36 for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $60-$70K annual.
Full benefits package included.
Percent time: 100%
Anticipated start: February 2023, or soon there after
Find out more and apply here
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at UCSB seeks a postdoctoral fellow focused on Wildfire Resilience in the US and Canadian West as part of our Morpho Initiative. The Morpho initiative sponsors working groups and postdocs to synthesize data and knowledge about environmental science, resource management, and restoration efforts. As part of our 2023 initiative we will support a postdoctoral position that will work collaboratively with a to-be selected synthesis science working group specifically focused on Wildfire in the West as well as work on their own related postdoctoral research. This is a two-year long position and will be based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California.
Basic Qualifications:
- At the time of application, applicants must have completed all requirements except the dissertation for a PhD in environmental science, ecology, climate change, environmental policy, or a relevant discipline.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong analytical and modeling skills, including data science, database management, data visualization, etc.
- Strong publication record
- Experience working on subjects related to wildfire resilience in the Western US and Canada
- Regional knowledge of the North American West ecosystems and people
- Ability to review and synthesize large amounts of literature and complex information
- Ability to take initiative and work both independently and as part of a research team
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to translate complex scientific information and effectively communicate with a variety of audiences
- Strong networking and relationship-building skills and interest in building broad collaborations
- Experience working with groups outside of academia (agency, industry, NGOs, etc.)
- Demonstrates an understanding and acceptance of diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts that are broader than only race, ethnicity, and gender.
Learn more and apply here!
Our newest synthesis program, the Gulf Ecosystem Initiative, is seeking two postdocs passionate about data science and environmental issues in the Gulf of Mexico, especially around areas of fisheries, climate change, and natural resource management.
Located at NCEAS in downtown Santa Barbara, this postdoc will offer opportunities for collaboration with to-be-announced working groups in the Gulf Ecosystem Initiative 2023 Call for Proposals (awarded May 2023). Research time will be split between these projects and independent study in any area of the initiative's thematic focus. This initial postdoc cohort will be joined by a growing community of postdocs in the following years.
Required materials: Cover letter, CV, three page statement of research, contact information for three references. Learn more and apply here.
If you are passionate about training the next generation of data science leaders, we are ready for you to join our team! UC Santa Barbara's Bren School is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor (tenure track) in Environmental Data Science to work closely with our MEDS program.
The appointee will contribute to our educational mission in the following areas:
- Teach courses on computational data science skills, including data wrangling, analysis, modeling, visualization, reproducible analysis and workflow management.
- Teach courses on the modern data science software stack in commonly used programming languages such as Python, R and/or SQL.
- Help supervise student group capstone projects, including instruction in team science and project management.
- Participate in, and eventually lead, faculty oversight and governance of the MEDS program (including curriculum and implementation).
Find out more and apply here.
NCEAS is seeking a top candidate for a Director's Postdoc. The successful candidate will pursue research of her/his own interest in any domain of environmental science using analytical or synthesis approaches as well as be part of a team to envision and advance interdisciplinary environmental science at UCSB.
The ideal candidate will have excellent quantitative and modeling skills, an interest and track record in publishing in top science journals, demonstrated commitment to open science principles and practice, interest in engaging with the diverse community at NCEAS, and experience communicating science in policy, public and media outlets. The position is intended to be highly independent, with the successful candidate pursuing her/his own research agenda under the mentorship of the Director of NCEAS, while also collaborating with the AVC in the Office of Research and the Director of NCEAS to advance campus-wide environmental science.
Find out more and apply here
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.
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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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Ocean Health Index
Learn how to weave open data science principles into marine science and conservation.
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