Information International Associates

Job Posting Title

Environmental and Energy Informatics Specialist

Major Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be involved in a range of technical projects to improve the availability and usability of data for renewable electric energy generation.  Relevant data includes environmental and ecological data associated with production and transmission facilities, renewable energy resource maps, potential changes in renewable resources due to climate change, and potential energy demand changes.  Relevant renewable energy sources include wind, solar, water, hydro, geothermal, and marine.  The successful candidate will need to interact with a range of researcher, data generators, and data users across divisions, and various stakeholder communities in renewable energy.  The successful candidate will need to be able to identify opportunities where informatics improvements will add value to the renewable energy enterprise, develop collaborations needed to achieve that value, solicit support for such projects, and lead the implementation projects.  As this is a developing area, a significant amount of hands-on informatics technical execution will be required in the early stages of the development of this position.

Qualifications Required

* A bachelor's degree in a science, engineering, or technical area is required. A master's degree is preferred, while a doctoral degree is particularly preferred.   Bachelor's level candidates must have a minimum of 10 years of relevant post-graduate experience, and master's level candidates must have a minimum of 5 years of relevant post-graduate experience.
* Position requires excellent written and verbal communications in English, including the ability to do planned and impromptu presentations.
* Candidates must have a strong background in the use and analysis of scientific and/or engineering data.  A background including statistical data analysis, data assimilation, data visualization, or numerical simulation is highly desired.
* Demonstrated experience, education, and training in one or more electrical energy systems, preferably renewable energy sources (hydro, wind, solar, marine, geothermal), in business development, including a basic understanding of finance, in environmental and ecological risk assessment (especially related to renewable energy systems), and in information systems design and development is highly desired.
* Proven expertise in one or more of the following areas is desired: web site development, configuration of open source CMS packages (e.g Drupal, Plone), scripting using PHP or Python, common data analysis packages (e.g. Matlab, R, S-Plus), ecologically relevant metadata preparation (e.g. FGDC Bio, Dublin Core, ISO 19115), data manipulation SQL in a common database package (MySQL, SQL*Server, PostgreSQL), Geospatial Information Systems, use of remote sensing (satellite) data.

Candidates should be able to establish working relationships with a broad range of technical specialties and with limited interactions or prior introductions to sponsors, team members, and potential collaborators.  The successful candidate must be able to think both strategically and tactically, to sort out competing priorities, and to focus on the best combination of short- and long-term benefits.  The position requires the ability to extract system requirements from interviews with people and from written materials (such as literature articles). The candidate must be able to write successful grant proposals, be willing to travel, up to 30%, with 1 trip/month (on average) likely, be able to communicate requirements to software developers, and be able to negotiate for resources not under personal direct control (i.e., be effective in a matrixed environment). Possessing the ability to effectively facilitate a meeting with disparate stakeholders is highly desired.  The candidate must demonstrate leadership qualities in persuasion and influence with potential sponsors to develop and to grow lines of research and business.

Security clearance is not required, although the ability to obtain security clearance is desired.

This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.

We accept Word(.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint(.pdf), Rich Text Format (rtf), WordPerfect (.wpd), HTML (.htm, .hmtl) and text files (.txt) text files (.txt) up tp 1MB in size. Resumes from third party vendors will not be accepted; these resumes will be deleted and the candidates submitted will not be considered for employment.

From: Franciel A. Linares [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:20 PM
To: Franciel A. Linares
Subject: Position available- Energy & Environmental Informatics Specialist

All-

I am looking to fill the attached FT position ASAP. If you know of anyone that may be interested please reply to me and let me know.

Thanks!

--Franciel

Franciel Azpurua Linares, PMP

Information Management & Technology Consulting

Information International Associates (IIa)

Office Direct (865) 298-1226

Mobile (865) 363-8632

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Email: falinares at iiaweb.com