For this place, we search a person who wishes to make use of their data of several types of extreme climate and educate and coach others.
Date posted
Jan. 27, 2023 9:00 am
Utility deadline
Feb. 27, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIWRO on the College of Oklahoma
Location
Job description
This career-track MS-level analysis affiliate works on our Warning Resolution Coaching Division crew on the Cooperative Institute for Extreme and Excessive-Affect Climate Analysis and Operations (CIWRO) on the College of Oklahoma (OU). This place collaborates with Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) instructors and forecasters throughout the nation.
Place Overview
For this place, we search a person who wishes to make use of their data of several types of extreme climate and educate and coach others. The incumbent creates content material to assist NWS practice forecasters on choice making for extreme climate warnings. Whereas this place focuses on instructing forecasters, you’d additionally:
- Carry out utilized analysis to construct and keep experience in your coaching matters,
- Collaborate with subject material specialists within the NWS and within the bigger scientific neighborhood, and
- Use quite a lot of instruments to in any other case facilitate NWS forecasters’ skilled
The Warning Resolution Coaching Division (WDTD) crew at CIWRO works on coaching and instruments that assist NWS forecasters higher meet the NWS mission to guard life and property. Our crew works with federal instructors to enhance warning efficiency. You’ll be able to study extra concerning the WDTD on their web site: https://coaching.climate.gov/wdtd/.
Job Tasks
- Collaborate with NWS instructors, forecasters, and different specialists to seek out job-specific coaching
- Develop experience with the science, expertise, and human elements of extreme climate operations of the NWS by way of utilized analysis.
- Combine that experience into the coaching content material you develop for in-person, on-line, simulation- based mostly, or different utilized coaching.
- Study/improve skilled expertise with purposes (e.g., Adobe Inventive Cloud, Articulate Storyline, Microsoft PowerPoint), programming and internet expertise (e.g., Python, JavaScript, HTML), and different expertise and instruments related to your work (e.g., Google Apps).
- Work in a team-based, collaborative atmosphere to finish job
{Qualifications}
- A Grasp’s Diploma in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, or associated area,
- Means to work collaboratively with others in a crew
- Exhibit oral and written communication expertise wanted for numerous coaching
- Exhibit a flair for performing technical duties with an consideration to
- Chosen candidates should go a regular federal background test and be a S. citizen or everlasting resident to acquire unsupervised entry to federal house and programs.
Wage/Advantages
The wage is predicated on expertise and consists of customary college advantages (http://hr.ou.edu/). Different advantages embrace…
- OU’s 80,000 sq. ft. health and aquatic middle (https://www.ou.edu/far
- Flexibility in work hours round a “core hours” interval from in the course of the center of the workday
- Beneficiant private go away
Profession Development We provide…
- Promotion
- Means to take part in interagency collaboration on a variety of
- Visibility within the NWS and broader neighborhood by way of your coaching supply, collaboration, and associated skilled actions.
- A rewards and advantage system that acknowledges skilled
- An opportunity to develop new skilled expertise/instruments.
Work/Life Stability
We help a various, non-discriminatory workforce that respects the tradition, beliefs, and practices of all workers. Versatile work hours and simple space commutes allow workers to deal with private wants with out sacrificing private go away. Our structured career-track program permits for development {and professional} status whereas sustaining a wholesome work/life stability.
Who We Are
CIWRO is the most important analysis group on the OU with over 200 analysis scientists, associates, assistants, college students, and help workers. It’s one in every of 15 NOAA-funded cooperative institutes which
promote collaboration between OU and NOAA’s Workplace of Oceanic and Atmospheric Analysis (OAR) and the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) by working side-by-side on issues of mutual curiosity.
OU (positioned in Norman, OK: http://live-norman.com/) was ranked by Forbes as the highest employer within the state of Oklahoma, one of many high 50 employers in the USA and within the high 4 inside schooling area of employers with greater than 5,000 workers.
The right way to Apply
Ship an announcement of curiosity the way you meet the place {qualifications}, your resume/CV, and an inventory of three skilled references to: ciwro-careers@ou.edu. Enter within the topic line: “ATTN: RA – WDTD Workforce.” For extra details about this place, please contact Andrew Wooden (awood@ou.edu) or Dale Morris (dmorris@ou.edu).
