LEAD SCIENTIST, CENTRAL VALLEY & MOUNTAINS REGION (CA), THE NATURE
CONSERVANCY (CALIFORNIA)
The Lead Scientist for the Great Central Valley, Sierra Nevada and
Klamath 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, 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.
Based out of Sacramento office
Deadline for application: November 30, 2012
To apply:
<https://careers.nature.org/psp/P91HTNC_APP/APPLICANT/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=40529&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1>https://careers.nature.org/psp/P91HTNC_APP/APPLICANT/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=40529&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
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Brynn Taylor
Conservation Science Program Manager
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
(415) 281-0445 (Phone)
(415) 609-0519 (Cell)
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The Nature Conservancy
California Program
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San Francisco, CA 94105
