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JRS Biodiversity Foundation Hiring a Foundation Program Manager

The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is hiring a Foundation Program Manager to manage vital elements of the foundation’s administration and grantmaking programs.  The JRS Biodiversity Foundation’s mission is to increase access to and use of information that will lead to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. We are the only funder focused on improving access to biodiversity data and on the information technologies (IT) behind conservation decisions. With assets of $45M, we invest about $2.5M per year in eight to ten, multi-year grants.

Perfect Job for a Professional Seeking a Unique Opportunity in Biodiversity Conservation
The Foundation Program Manager is a dual role that combines technical areas of grantmaking, grants management, and evaluation with operational areas of administration, finance, and governance.  This role is a unique chance for a professional to learn about and to contribute to every aspect of a small, high-performing strategic philanthropy. The Program Manager will report to and work in close partnership with, the Executive Director in the foundation’s Seattle office.
Experience and high levels of interest in most or all of these areas of Qualifications will make for a great fit:

  1. Financial management or strategic communications.
  2. Project management in international development, research, or the private sector.
  3. Grantmaking, program evaluation, or operations in strategic philanthropy.
  4. A degree related to environmental science that preferably includes knowledge of data science and biodiversity informatics.
  5. Experience with staffing or managing projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Minimum Qualifications

  • M.A. or Ph.D. in fields related to JRS’ operations and strategy.
  • 3-5 years of post-university work or education experience.
  • Significantly meet 3 of the 5 experience Qualifications above.
  • Successful applicants will be asked to show proof that they can legally work in the US.

For a complete posting, please see the online version  at JRS.Breezy.HR. We welcome your questions online or submitted to info@jrsbiodiversity.org.  Applications are due no later than May 15, 2019.

Postdoc in biodiversity informatics

The Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in biodiversity informatics and data publishing. The position is part of a new Biodiversity Data Science Initiative launched at ASU and led by Beckett Sterner and Nico Franz. The initiative will develop a next-generation solution to overcome the performance limits of taxonomic names as fundamental categories for grouping all forms of data about living things into scientifically meaningful units. Prevalent existing solutions bundle data by names alone, without accounting for changes in their scientific meanings, which causes incorrect data packaging and decision-making. Taxonomic intelligence provides the mapping between names and concepts that is necessary to resolve names accurately into meanings despite changing relationships across time and experts. The initiative will focus on building and promoting an innovative web platform that leverages theoretical advancements and prototype software for taxonomic concept alignment, with the goal to establish a scalable taxonomic intelligence service that will carry value for scientific audiences, science publishers, government agencies, and environmental consulting firms. The platform will accelerate the growth of high-quality, reproducible biological data by driving the adoption of taxonomic intelligence metadata in scientific datasets and journals.

Exploratory e-mail inquiries are strongly encouraged. Interested applicants should send a one-page research statement, clearly indicating their qualifications and motivation to join the project, Curriculum Vitae, and contact information for three references to beckett.sterner@asu.edu. The review of applications is now on a rolling basis and will continue until a suitable candidate has been found. The start date is flexible, though with a preference for an immediate start.

 

Workshop Announcement: Data Carpentries and Genomics at UF

The UF Carpentries Club is offering a two-day Data Carpentries workshop in Genomics.  This workshop is focused on helping the UF community get started learning to work with genomics data, data management, and analysis for genomics research.  Including best practices for organization of bioinformatics projects and data, use of command line utilities, use of command line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, and connecting to and using Hi. Need to learn some new programming for a class? Want to collaborate effectively with your peers? We were there once too. Come start learning with us.

 

There will be a two-day workshop on Thursday and Friday, April 11 – 12, 2019, hosted in room 150 of the Emerging Pathogens Institute.

 

Seats are limited to 24 participants and there is a $46 registration fee, payable by credit card, which will include breaks and lunch on both days (in registration, note if you any dietary restrictions - vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free).

 

Registration is required. Please plan to attend the entire two days. Also please be aware that is will be the first time these lessons will have ever been taught. We will do our best to stick with the marked schedule, but please be prepared if lesson exceed the allotted time.

 

For the schedule and more details about the workshop and requirements, visit https://uf-carpentry.github.io/2019-04-11-ufepi-genomics/.

 

Click here for more details and to register http://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/SSP/1400071955.

 

Thursday-Friday, April 11-12, 2019

9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

UF Informatics & Biodiversity Institutes

E251 Computer Science and Engineering Bldg. (CSE)

432 Newell Road

Gainesville, FL 32611

 

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