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Campus Associate Director, UC Riverside NRS

Application review date: Feb. 27, 2023

Salary range: $74,896–145,892

Position title: Academic Coordinator/Associate Director UCR NRS

To apply: submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of contributions to diversity, and contact information for three to five references to https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/applyJPF01696.

Position description

The Natural Reserve System at the University of California, Riverside invites applications for Campus Associate Director UC Riverside Natural Reserve System (Academic Coordinator II) position. Responsibilities include: essential administrative & logistical support to site staff and their operations, facilitation of programmatic activities for UCR NRS with some management responsibility for administrative and budgetary activities, working within an administrative unit and reporting to UCR’s Campus Faculty Director. A reasonable estimate for this salary is $74,896–$145,892.

The successful candidate will work to support personnel of the UCR NRS in a variety of ways to include grant writing to bolster research, teaching and outreach, fund raising, strategic planning in support of consensus related to long-range goals for UCR NRS and implementing programmatic initiatives, both directly and in a supporting role, to increase visibility of UCR NRS sites. In addition to working closely with committee members and Faculty Director, the successful candidate will also interact with students and researchers on the Reserve sites along with a broad audience of stakeholders to include UC NRS Systemwide office, all staff of the UCR NRS, the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) Dean, the Financial & Administrative Officer within the administrative unit and campus affiliates providing services to UCR NRS. The successful candidate also has the opportunity to develop and teach training workshops about the reserves, wildland safety on the reserves, and other related topics. This recruitment is for a career position. Interviews are expected to be scheduled during February or March of 2023.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD or similar, preferably in ecology or environmental sciences or engineering
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work concurrently on a variety of tasks
• Ph.D. in life sciences or a related field at time of hire

Additional Qualifications

Experience in program organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience facilitating university level research and supporting University classes at a field station
• Experience with day-to-day management of operations at a field station
• Experience in land stewardship and management
• Experience facilitating infrastructure and facilities maintenance and improvement projects
• Experience facilitating K–12 and adult public outreach and education programs
• Experience and success in grant writing
• Demonstrated experience in project management
• Experience in administration, budget management, and report writing
• Strong facility and familiarity with the internet
• Demonstrated ability to work within various levels of the internal organization including taking general direction and working effectively with other units on campus and in allied public and private agencies.

Advancement through the Academic Coordinator ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2 years, each of which includes substantial peer input.

For more information about this position, please contact Kimberly Hammond, Chair of the Search Committee, UC Riverside Natural Reserve System at khammond@ucr.edu. For questions on application procedures and requirements, please contact Troy Hall Jr., Academic Personnel, at troy.hall@ucr.edu.

Administrative Officer 2, NRS Systemwide Office

Application review date: January 27, 2023

Salary: $33.15 to $40.39 per hour, commensurate with experience

Benefits: For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University, visit Benefits of Belonging

This is a hybrid position located within the state of California

How to apply

For more information and to apply, go to UCOP Jobs

Please be prepared to attach a cover letter and resume with your application.

Position summary

Reporting to the NRS Executive Director, the Administrative Officer is responsible for fiscal and general administrative coordination of the NRS systemwide office, as well as support for a number of systemwide programs.

Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

• Minimum two years of administrative support experience.
• Thorough knowledge of University rules and regulations, processes, protocols, and procedures for budget, account and fund management, personnel management.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct responsible and complex administrative analysis requiring knowledge of University organization, policies, procedures, and practices. Ability to independently determine and locate sources for collecting information and data.
• Resourcefulness in problem-solving and innovation in analysis, employing solutions that require “first-time” applications and practices. Ability to exercise independent and sound judgment.
• Proven experience managing fiduciary responsibilities, and ability to establish and maintain appropriate controls. Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proven experience performing accounting and budget duties including ledger reconciliation, expense monitoring, formulating budget projections, and financial reporting. Strong mathematical aptitude.
• Working knowledge of and experience using on-line systems and applications, preferably the UCOP financial system and associated policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated organizational and project management skills including the ability to coordinate and prioritize a diverse workload, set and meet competing deadlines, and establish systems to effectively track projects and other information.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate ideas and issues clearly and concisely using proper spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing logistics for meetings and events and providing staff support.
• Strong customer service orientation; ability to respond effectively and in a businesslike manner to questions or requests for service from individuals throughout the University.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, political acumen, tact, and diplomacy to appropriately interact with UC’s diverse staff and faculty, and the public in a multifaceted environment. Proven ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.  Ability to work well with others and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Proven ability to follow through and complete assignments independently, and work cooperatively and productively within a team environment.
• Computer literacy in an Apple computing environment, and demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, calendaring, electronic mail, and web-based applications.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Familiarity with the University of California organizational structure, mode of government, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Understanding of the Natural Reserve System and its organizational structure, available resources, general mission, and specific mission.  Environmental conservation orientation highly desirable.

Education 

• A Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.

NRS Coordinator, UC Berkeley

Position title: Berkeley NRS Coordinator

Salary range: $57,100–$108,703

Position duration: 2 years

Application review date: Jan. 31, 2023

Apply at: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03745

Help contact: hsangera1@berkeley.edu

Position description

The University of California Berkeley seeks applications for an Academic Coordinator to support all UC Berkeley Natural Reserve System reserves and field stations. This position is for a two-year period and is renewable based on performance and availability of funding.

The UCNRS (University of California Natural Reserve System) is housed in the UC Office of the President. The UCNRS was established in 1965 and is currently composed of 41 reserves distributed across the State of California. Each UC campus oversees the operations and management of a subset of reserves. The mission of the UCNRS is to contribute to the understanding and wise stewardship of the Earth and its natural systems by supporting university-level teaching, research, and public service in protected natural areas throughout California.
The Berkeley campus has oversight over the following 7 UCNRS sites:

Angelo Coast Range Reserve
Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve
Hastings Natural History Reservation
Point Reyes Field Station
Chickering American River Reserve
Sagehen Creek Field Station

Reporting to the UC Berkeley NRS Faculty Representative, the Academic Coordinator will work closely with UC Berkeley NRS sites and serve as a point of contact for Reserve Managers, Faculty Directors, and Reserve Stewards. Additionally, this person will coordinate the administrative and programmatic activities of the stations in collaboration with personnel, and serve as the Reserves liaison to UCB’s Vice Chancellor of Research Office, financial analysts working with UCB NRS reserves, and other campus administrators and staff.

Responsibilities

The UCB NRS Academic Coordinator will play a critical role assisting UC Berkeley reserves and field stations with developing, organizing, coordinating, and monitoring UCB NRS-related programs. The Academic Coordinator will also deliver reports and presentations, facilitate and advocate for UCB NRS reserve goals on campus, and play a facilitative role in day-to-day administrative, business, and programmatic activities, as well as capital projects at the NRS reserves and field stations administered by UC Berkeley.

Specific programs to be overseen by the Academic Coordinator include:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs on UCB reserves
• Undergraduate internship programs
• UC NRS Field Science Fellowship
• Graduate Student Awards for Field Research
• Other NRS-related programs

The Academic Coordinator will also support UCB NRS reserves and field stations in areas including, but not limited to:

Outreach and Education:

• Facilitate discussions and presentations for departments on campus, in coordination with Faculty and Resident Managers, to raise the awareness of Berkeley Reserves and the NRS.
• Provide assistance to faculty across campus in the development of new interdisciplinary courses and facilitate delivery of courses that utilize UCB NRS reserves and field stations.

Administration:

Help Reserve and Faculty Directors develop or update emergency plans, including evacuation plans, maps, and communication plans. Coordinate emergency plans with campus and first responders.
Website management and creating and disseminating electronic UCB newsletters regarding upcoming and current research being done on UCB NRS reserves.
Support Reserve Managers on issues related to land stewardship, resource management, and implementing UC Berkeley’s research and teaching priorities.
Supervise students as needed.

Research Administration and Finance:

• Provide reserve managers with on-campus grant writing support (e.g., liaising with Sponsored Projects Office, etc.). Identify extramural funding opportunities and work with reserve leadership to develop successful funding proposals (individually and/or collectively).
• Support Reserve Managers on issues related to land stewardship, resource management, and implementing UC Berkeley’s research and teaching priorities.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

Advanced degree or equivalent international degree

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)

2 years of work experience

Preferred qualifications

• Ph.D. or equivalent international degree.
• Experience in promoting opportunities for groups underrepresented in the sciences.
• Ability to work and communicate with faculty, staff, and reserve stakeholders on various reserve and field station events/ programs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build collegial relationships with staff at each field station/reserve local and regional organizations.
• Interest in facilities management.
• Ability to use sound judgment in responding to issues and concerns.
• Excellent written skills.
• Experience with website maintenance, social media outlets, protocol, other software, and technology.
• Research and teaching experience in environmental sciences at a variety of levels, especially university-level instruction.
• Ability to lead field trips.
• Excellent organizational management skills including budget reporting and mentoring staff.
• Experience with grant writing or raising funds.
• Ability to learn UC internal systems and operations (e.g., purchasing, budgeting, personnel, administration, organization).
• Interest in natural history, flora, fauna, local ecosystems, and scientific research in California.

Application requirements

Document requirements

• Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V.
• Cover Letter
• Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activities to date, and your specific plans and goals for advancing equity and inclusion if hired at Berkeley (for additional information go to https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity).

Reference requirements

3 required (contact information only)

Job location

Berkeley, CA

Project Data Manager, UC Santa Barbara NRS

Job ID: 46672

Full time

Application review begins: Jan. 9, 2023

Apply online at: https://tinyurl.com/NRSDataManager

Summary of Job Duties

The Project Data Manager will support a full range of research activities, with a focus on a prescribed burn research program at Sedgwick Reserve, and a climate monitoring program focused at Santa Cruz Island Reserve, and associated collaborative research activities. Provides logistical and technical support to staff, scientists and students conducting research on UCSB NRS Reserves with 25% of this position’s time dedicated to the Santa Cruz Island Reserve.The duties include meeting planning and coordination, research equipment installation, maintenance, and/or removal, field data collection, research information management and data analysis, and student and volunteer training. The data manager contacts data providers and consults the literature to manage and archive data of moderate complexity for preservation. The data manager participates in research activities as needed.

Pay Rate/Range

Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and application of fair, equitable and consistent pay practices at the University. The budgeted salary that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position up to $80,000 annually.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in environmental, ecological, or related research fields involving data management
• 4-6 years working in one or more scripted statistical frameworks such as R
• 4-6 years work experience
• 4-6 years experience as a member or supervisor of a field or laboratory research project
• 20% of the position is travel to Reserve Sites for facilitating field monitoring purposes

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in environmental, ecological, or related science fields is desirable, as is extensive knowledge and skill in data management, metadata standards, data standards, R, statistics, and modeling.
• PhD in relevant discipline
• Less than 1 year Familiarity with the University of California Natural Reserve System or similar biological field station

Special Conditions of Employment

• Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse
• UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act
• Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. 
• Satisfactory conviction history background check.
• UCSB is a Tobacco-Free environment.

Director, Sedgwick Reserve

Compensation commensurate with experience in the range of $78,500 to $92,500/yr.

For primary consideration apply by September 19, 2022. Thereafter open until filled.

Start Date:  November 1, 2022 

APPLY ONLINE (only) at:   https://jobs.ucsb.edu   

Job ID#: 29795  

Or at the following link: https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=31&JobOpeningId=29795&PostingSeq=1

Alternate URL:  https://tinyurl.com/SedgwickReserveDirector

The Natural Reserve System (NRS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), invites applications for an exempt, full-time position of Director for the Sedgwick Reserve, located in Santa Ynez Valley, CA, approximately 45 miles from the UCSB main campus. The UC NRS mission is to support research, education and public service, and contribute to the understanding and wise stewardship of the Earth. Sedgwick Reserve is part of the UCSB NRS and operates within the UCSB Office of Research and the University of California Natural Reserve System. Annually, there are over 7,500 user days at Sedgwick Reserve, and users include researchers, university classes, outreach groups, volunteers and K-12 school groups. For more information about Sedgwick Reserve visit http://sedgwick.nrs.ucsb.edu/.

The Reserve Director provides leadership for the Sedgwick Reserve site, and support for researchers, university classes and public service uses. The Sedgwick Reserve Director is resident onsite (housing provided) and oversees 8 staff and directly supervises 3 personnel.The incumbent reports to the UCSB NRS Executive Director, and regularly interacts with the Reserve’s faculty advisors, the UCSB NRS Director and the UCSB NRS Administrative Campus Office on all aspects of Reserve management and activities including those in support of the La Kretz Research Center at Sedgwick Reserve. The Director is responsible for all aspects of Reserve management and day-to-day operations, including administration, budgeting, purchasing, personnel, programming, environmental health and safety, facilities management, and interactions with Reserve stakeholders. These stakeholders include donors, volunteers, Reserve users, community members, and state and federal agencies. 

The successful candidate will be self-sufficient, have a high level of initiative, an advanced degree (PhD preferred) in environmental science or a related field, experience with field research, excellent problem solving skills, experience in team management and personnel supervision, project management, outstanding written and oral communication skills, the ability to engage productively with diverse user groups and stakeholders, excellent organizational skills, a willingness to assume responsibility readily, and the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision. Demonstrated experience in the following areas is required: administration and budget management, staff supervision, facilities and equipment operations and maintenance, field research, land stewardship and resource monitoring, acquisition of external support, experience in public and private fundraising, preparation of effective written reports, and ability to speak professionally in public including to large groups. Preferred qualifications: experience with operations at a remote field station, track record of leading successful grant proposals, written reports or manuscripts, and skills in information technology.

Pandemic Statement

The University of California is vigilantly monitoring and acting in accordance with all applicable public health directives related to COVID-19.  As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy.  All Covered Individuals under the policy must provide proof of Full Vaccination or, if applicable, submit a request for Exception (based on Medical Exemption, Disability, and/or Religious Objection) or Deferral (based on pregnancy) no later than the applicable deadline.  New University of California employees must (a) provide proof of receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 Vaccine no later than 14 calendar days after their first date of employment and provide proof of Full Vaccination no later than eight weeks after their first date of employment; or (b) if applicable, submit a request for Exception or Deferral no later than 14 calendar days after their first date of employment.  (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.) Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.

For more information, please visit:

• UC Santa Barbara COVID-19 Information: https://www.ucsb.edu/COVID-19-information
• UC SARS-CoV-2 (COVID -19) Vaccination Program Policy: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19

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Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Statement

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.