Physical Scientist, Service Delivery Of Ocean Prediction

As one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s top contractors, ISS is seeking a Physical Scientist, Service Delivery of Ocean Predictionto support Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) office.

Where you will be: This role is fully remote; however, preference would be given to those local to the Silver Spring, MD area for convenience with key meetings.

What you will do: Lead community engagement by assisting the IOOS office’s work designing and implementing a community engagement approach with the IOOS and NOS modeling community. This will include:

• Plan and execute communications and outreach strategies for stakeholder engagement and cross-NOAA Coordination (35%). This includes:
  • Capture and document user community requirements, which should be the primary source for new work related to IOOS products.
  • Plan, host, lead webinars, annual meetings, communicate NOS modeling updates.
  • Engage the coastal modeling community to co-develop an approach for sharing code, tools, and computational environments aimed at enhancing development of modeling advances.
  • Cross-NOS communications including synthesizing and documenting discussion points and action items from the NOS Model and Prediction Team.
  • Tracking stakeholder engagement discussions and model capabilities to meet stakeholder needs among the Regions; provide recommendations for collaboration and connection to the Federal modeling and observation systems.
• Support the Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed Program by engaging PIs and NOS points of contact, and organizing annual meetings, merit review panels, and workshops. (30%)
• Support the NOS Modeling Portfolio Manager in managing products for data acquisition of coastal model forcings, visualization and dissemination of model output, task management and organization of open-source code repositories (ex. GitHub). (20%)
• Facilitate community modeling and use of a cloud modeling platform to improve model code transitions. Identify data and computing requirements for development and eventually NOAA operations (if transitioned). (15%)

What you bring: 

• Masters in physical oceanography, hydrology, engineering sciences or equivalent
• Experience engaging with scientific communities and developing communities of practice
• Experience leading teams or working groups
• 5+ years managing projects, PMP preferred
• Familiarity with ocean modeling
• Familiarity with GitHub, Slack, and Trello preferred
• Experience with outreach and consensus building
• Experience in relationship building with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge and ability to use Google suite
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• A self-starter, team oriented
• A strong interest and background in promoting ocean and coastal stewardship.
• Bonus points: You are familiar with NOAA and/or NOS.

You’re REALLY going to love it here if:

• You thrive in a close-knit, friendly corporate culture dedicated to fostering personal careerdevelopment
• You work in an environment with accessible and available senior corporate leadership without the micromanagement
• You’re looking for a great work/life balance
• You’re seeking above standard benefits – Health insurance where the company pays 75% of premiums, 401k match, paid holidays, referral bonuses, and ‘take what you need’ paid time off
• You seek a work environment where you have a voice in the development and modification of the policies by which the company is governed

The admin stuff: You must be a US Citizen and be able to pass a Public Trust investigation from the U.S. government.