Department: Biology

Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education

Description:

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills.

1. Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experiments or projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
2. Recommends changes in research, testing or experimental procedures.
3. May be responsible for a single highly technical and complex piece of research equipment.
4. May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
5. May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control.
6. Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
7. May receive general supervision conferring with higher levels only in unusual situations.
8. Performs other job-related duties as required.

Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advanced professional discipline or the highest level of general business knowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directly job-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
No experience is required.

Additional Posting Information:
Additional Responsibilities: The postdoc will analyze long-term data sets on plants and invertebrates collected by the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program and write manuscripts describing the results. The postdoc may participate in some ecological fieldwork at the GCE-LTER site in Georgia if interested. The postdoc will work under the direction of Dr. Steven Pennings and in collaboration with other GCE-LTER researchers.