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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Please pass on to anyone who may be qualified and interested. Thank you!
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Walter Jetz, </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">URL: </span><a href="http://www.yale.edu/yibs/documents/SBSC_Position.AnalystAd.pdf">http://www.yale.edu/yibs/documents/SBSC_Position.AnalystAd.pdf</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Senior Spatial Biodiversity Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Yale Program in Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A three-year position in spatial analysis and research is available in our newly formed program, starting 1 September 2012 or later.
The position is to p</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">rovide spatial data analysis
<span style="color:black">support for ongoing research projects in biodiversity science and conservation undertaken by Yale faculty and students. Start date is flexible and extension beyond three years is possible.
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Essential Duties
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Work with a team of professors, postdocs and students to support geospatial biodiversity analyses including statistical analysis, development of automated procedures and code (including some web applications), and database management.
Provide training in spatial biodiversity analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Education and Experience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PhD degree in a relevant area (or equivalent education and experience) and at least five years of experience in the management and analysis of spatial biological
data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Background in spatial analysis, development of spatial analysis workflows, data management and relational databases, spatial statistics, analysis
of remotely sensed data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Strong background in: spatial R, PostGIS, ArcGIS, GRASS, Python, postgreSQL, or similar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Documented experience in managing a team and training others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Skills and Abilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Excellent spatial analysis and database management skills.
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">A strong interest in learning and developing new approaches to support statistical analysis, databasing, and web-delivery of spatial, environmental
and biodiversity data and tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Excellent communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Very strong planning and organizational skills, ability to simultaneously tackle multiple projects and work with different research groups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Well developed analytical and problem solving skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Additional Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">RESEARCH GROUP: The analyst will work with a number of different research groups and students under the umbrella of the new
<i>Program in Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation</i>. Core member labs of this program include those of
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/jetz/">Walter Jetz</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">,
<a href="http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/">David Skelly</a>, <a href="http://www.phylodiversity.net/donoghue/">
Michael Donoghue</a>, and <a href="http://pantheon.yale.edu/~sje9/MEML/Eric_Sargis.html">
Eric Sargis</a>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">EMPLOYER: Yale has a thriving community of postdocs and graduate students in ecology, evolution and global change science. The
successful candidate will benefit from interactions with the EEB Department, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (<a href="http://www.yale.edu/yibs">www.yale.edu/yibs</a>), the Peabody Museum, the Yale Climate & Energy Institute, and the Yale School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies (<a href="http://environment.yale.edu/">http://environment.yale.edu</a>). Yale offers extraordinarily competitive and comprehensive benefits and staff support (<a href="http://www.yale.edu/hronline/benefits/">http://www.yale.edu/hronline/benefits/</a>).
Yale and New Haven provide a vibrant and diverse intellectual community in a quintessential New England town setting, 1.5h outside New York City (<a href="http://www.yale.edu/newhaven/index.html">http://www.yale.edu/newhaven/index.html</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">APPLICATION: Please email a short letter of interest, C.V., and the names and contact details of referees (ideally all
combined in one pdf) to walter.jetz@yale.edu – subject line: Spatial biodiversity analyst/researcher. Review of applications will begin 15 August, 2012 and continue until the position is filled. This position offers competitive market salary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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