Job Opening: LEAD SCIENTIST - NORTH AND CENTRAL COAST REGION (The Nature Conservancy, CALIFORNIA)
The Lead Scientist for the North and Central Coasts Region of California provides conservation science leadership for The Nature Conservancy, by effectively managing and mentoring a team of scientists and coordinating with a diverse team of non-scientist conservation professionals, to ensure that the conservation projects, priorities, and policies planned and implemented across the region have robust scientific foundations and achieve the greatest possible conservation outcomes. S/he develops and provides standardized approaches and methodologies, information, analyses, maps and expertise to help focus Conservancy and partner conservation efforts on the strategies that will deliver effective conservation at the greatest scale. S/he is a trained scientist, whose responsibility is to provide staff members with current scientific information and innovative science-based approaches required to address key conservation challenges related to sustaining biodiversity in natural and human-dominated landscapes. S/he supports the conservation program staff in activities including identification of priorities, multi-objective planning, monitoring-protocol development, easement development and monitoring, measures of success implementation, coordination of field research collaboratives, communication of our work to partners, funders, and community members, and general science guidance. S/he is responsible for working with TNC staff to communicate and publish findings of conservation research and practice. S/he is responsible for developing a network of research and agency scientific colleagues to ensure that priority conservation science needs are met across the region. S/he is responsible for delivering conservation science tools, biodiversity data and field services, technical support and training and development of best practices to Conservancy staff and partners. The full job description and application information can be found here: http://www.nature.org/aboutus/careers Search for "Lead Scientist" or "California". The application deadline is Friday, May 4, 2012. General information about working at The Nature Conservancy is here: http://www.nature.org/aboutus/careers/index.htm
