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Salary– $98,223 – $176,300 per year
As a Research Fish Biologist (Unit Leader) within the North Carolina Cooperative Research Unit, some of your specific duties will include:
- Responsibilities of the Unit Leader will require substantive administrative and managerial oversight to get the Unit functioning and up to speed.
- Plans, conducts, and directs research related to fish, wildlife, or ecological resources, with application to contemporary science, policy and management needs.
- Conducts research that is cooperator driven and provides scientific basis for management and policy decisions.
- Serves as subject matter expert in fish and wildlife ecology, providing leadership and guidance to government and private agencies and university representatives through participation in meetings, conferences and work groups.
- Disseminate research results via final reports, peer-reviewed print scientific journals, online scientific journals, books, book chapters or other outlets. Make presentations on findings to scientific and conservation organizations.
- Serves as graduate faculty member, contributing to both the research, graduate student mentorship, and teaching mission of the university.
- The selectee will be required to maintain a graduate faculty appointment at North Carolina State University.
- Operates a government vehicle as an incidental driver.
Desired candidates will have:
- Demonstrated ability to build an applied, field-based research program focused on ecological patterns and processes at local to regional scales, relevant to conservation, management, and restoration of fish populations and habitats.
- Ability to develop innovative approaches to address current and future conditions to inform decisions on conservation and management of fish and aquatic ecosystems.
- Demonstrated expertise in the application of modern quantitative analyses and tools for spatial analysis, species interactions, population dynamics, or habitat dynamics.
- Demonstrated effectiveness communicating scientific information to a diverse audience of managers, policy makers, graduate students, and the public.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a complex research program to meet the needs of fish and wildlife conservation agencies locally, nationally, and internationally through engagement with a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Ability to attract, teach, and mentor post-graduate students from diverse backgrounds in fisheries conservation.