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Research Scientist I
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Position Number: 6037271
Location: Boulder, CO
Position Type: Laboratory and Research

Research Scientist I

Requisition Number: 62361
Location: Boulder Colorado
Employment Type: Research Faculty
Schedule: Full Time
Posting Close Date: 28-Feb-2025
Date Posted:

Job Summary

The Arctic Rivers Project seeks a motivated social scientist to design and conduct ethnographic fieldwork, analyze qualitative data, and assist in the development of products related to historical and projected future environmental events.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

As the University's oldest institute, INSTAAR has a long history of responding to pressing environmental issues including climate change. Our traditional focus has been on alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic regions, where effects of global change are especially pronounced. In recent decades, our research has broadened to include environmental challenges that span local, regional, and global scales. INSTAAR's research activities integrate field studies, state-of-the-art laboratory experiments, sample analysis, and numerical and laboratory modeling. Our field sites are located across all seven continents and the world's oceans.

Our expertise across disciplines helps us generate influential science that can inform public and policy decisions and move us toward a more sustainable society. INSTAAR's national and international research leadership is augmented by exceptional strength in graduate education and bringing undergraduates into the research process.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Help the Project Team design, implement, and evaluate input from the broader community on research design, analysis, and deliverables.
Make decisions and provide input to the Team about how to proceed.
Provide guidance to ensure that deliverables are relevant, understandable and usable by the Indigenous communities they are intended to serve.

What We Can Offer

$65,000 - $75,000/year.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

Be Statements

Be ambitious. Be groundbreaking. Be Boulder.

What We Require

PhD in anthropology or a similar social science field. A background in political ecology and environmental justice is preferred.

What You Will Need

The candidate is expected to have experience promoting and practicing Indigenous Knowledge protection.
We seek a candidate who will identify the best communication pathways and methods for the project team to receive broad community input on research design, deliverables, & analyses, and to distribute project information and products related to past and projected future environmental change.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

Resume/CV.
Cover Letter.

If you are selected as the finalist, your degree will be verified by the CU Boulder Campus Human Resources department using an approved online vendor. If your degree was obtained outside of the United States, please submit a translated version as an optional attachment.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until 2/28/25.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.

In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

To apply, visit https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Research-Scientist-I/62361