Associate Director-NY Sea Grant Institute Assistant Director-Cornell Cooperative Extension, Coastal Programs (10803) - Posting No. 1580

Date Posted

July 30, 2009

Employer

Cornell University

Location

Ithaca, NY

Job Description

 

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, is an inclusive, dynamic, and innovative Ivy League university and New York’s land-grant institution. Its staff, faculty, and students impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas and best practices to further the university’s mission of teaching, research, and outreach.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences seeks a dynamic Associate Director for the New York Sea Grant Institute (NYSGI) and Assistant Director for Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Coastal Programs. As Associate Director for NYSGI, a collaborative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York system, the appointee will participate in overall program management, provide assistance establishing program direction and developing and maintaining contacts with academic units at Cornell and across the SUNY system, as well as with key agencies and legislative liaisons throughout New York State; assist in formulation of research and outreach priorities and directions, and in the maintenance of Institute advisory mechanisms and groups; serve as NYSGI’s liaison with specific agencies and programs and to the National Sea Grant College Program Office. AS Assistant Director of CCE, the appointee will provide leadership and administration for Sea Grant Extension and Coastal programs in CCE, serve as supervisor to Sea Grant Marine, Great Lakes, and the Hudson River district program coordinators and other Sea Grant staff, maintain overall program responsibility for grant proposal development, submission and reporting requirements; and engage in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of a personal extension education program in support of Sea Grant Extension and Coastal programs in CCE statewide including, if appropriate, relevant applied research and the development of grant proposals to support these extension and research activities.

Job Qualifications

 

 Qualifications:   An earned doctorate with at least 5 years professional research and extension experience in aquatic science, natural resource or conservation management or other environmental sciences; or a Master’s degree with at 10 years’ programmatic and progressive administrative experience in the above fields and demonstrated leadership experience. Substantive professional program experience in university-based outreach or non-formal education program, as well as management or coordination of such programs. Demonstrative skills and success in program management, grant-writing budget development and staff supervision. Please visit http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/ for information about this exciting science-based organization, a SUNY-Cornell partnership funded mainly by federal (NOAA) and NY State sources.  

Salary

Not Available

Contact Information

Nancy Greenawalt

112 Rice Hall

Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone - 607-255-2832

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Cell Phone - Not Available

Email - nag3@cornell.edu

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