Job Details
In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Research Scientist and Research Leader/Center Director and provide leadership for the center, which has the mission to support and enhance U.S. aquaculture production through research and technology transfer.Duties
Implement the center’s research program through effective management and leadership of scientific, technical, administrative, and other staff.
Lead team research through center scientists and provide scientific leadership and technical guidance in multiple complex research areas.
Maintain liaison with key customers and stakeholders concerned with aquaculture research and commercial production.
Responsible for the effective use of funds allocated to the center for research, including those identified as common project costs and location support costs.
Incumbent is charged with oversight of selective breeding research that results in genetically improved germplasm available to industry.
Select, coordinate, and guide team efforts in a comprehensive research program improving aquaculture production; and identify and develop collaborative research opportunities with state, private, and other federal cooperators.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a US Citizen or US National
Degree: genetics; or one of the basic biological sciences that included at least 9 semester hours in genetics.
Graduate Education: Genetics, or a curriculum or pattern of training that placed major emphasis on genetics. Graduate study in related fields such as plant breeding, agronomy, horticulture, animal, dairy, or poultry husbandry, entomology, microbiology, plant pathology, chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology that involved cross-training in genetics is qualifying, provided it placed sufficient emphasis on genetics.
Evaluation of Education: Most students in the field take graduate work because specific training in genetics may be limited at the undergraduate level. Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to evaluate undergraduate course work in genetics in one of two ways, as described below, to determine whether or not it is qualifying.
- Courses dealing with genetics, some phase of genetics, or specific techniques that are applied in genetics work are acceptable. This includes courses in genetics, plant or animal genetics, molecular and cellular biology, mathematics and statistics (as they apply to genetics), population dynamics, and certain techniques such as those dealing with irradiation.
- Course work consisting of an appropriate combination of basic courses in genetics and cytology or statistics are also acceptable.
Contact Information
Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research ServiceSydney Teague
Sydney.teague@usda.gov
703-259-9455
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/804412600
https://www.usajobs.gov/Applicant/Application/ApplyStart/804412600
Post Date: 8/13/2024 2:59:37 PM
Closing Date: 9/12/2024 12:00:00 AM
