{"content":[{"text":"Project Manager, IT Developer, and Project Coordinator for a USDA NIFA Project \n Entitled “Improving Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management to Sustain Food \n and Energy Crops Production in the Corn Belt” \n Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center \n University of Maryland College Park","bbox":{"left":0.118137,"top":0.095665,"width":0.7385489999999999,"height":0.093749}},{"text":"We are seeking qualified applicants for three full-time research faculty positions to support the \n finance, communication, extension, education, data sharing, and management of a new $10M \n project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/National Institute of \n Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The project’s five-year goal is to develop a predictive decision \n support Dashboard for Agricultural Water use and Nutrient management (DAWN) to sustain \n food and energy crop production in the Corn Belt. The research faculty staff will support the \n Project Director (PD), Professor Xin-Zhong Liang, to manage project execution in integrating \n the research, extension and education activities among an interdisciplinary team in the University \n of Maryland and six partner institutions. For all three positions, salary is commensurate with \n experience and University benefits will be included. Their key responsibilities include: \n 1. The Project Manager will: (a) assist project budget planning details and balance; (b) develop \n internal and external communication strategy, including the development of website content, \n the use of social media platforms and outreach to the media; (c) monitor project progress \n across all collaborative institutions; (d) organize team-wide DAWN system development \n (including science models, decision support tools and information delivery), knowledge \n transfer (i.e. extension to agricultural stakeholders), and experiential training activities; (e) \n build external partnerships; (f) manage the research faculty staff to provide effective support \n to all activities operated by the project management team; (g) organize all relevant \n information and assisting the project management team for the completion and delivery of \n the annual progress report to the USDA NIFA program manager. \n 2. The IT Developer will be in charge of all software engineering tasks: (a) developing the \n decision support system (DSS) tools and information delivery system (IDS) web service \n capable of machine learning; (b) running system forecasts; (c) maintaining the project \n database and the research website; (d) coordinating with the IT support persons of the partner \n institutions in developing the interfaces among the coupled modeling system, the progressive \n database, the DSS models, the DSS tools, the IDS web service, and the users; (e) updating \n the DAWN data management plan and ensuring effective data sharing among the science \n team and stakeholders. \n 3. The Project Coordinator will (a) monitor and track due dates and anticipated outcomes; (b) \n organize program meetings and conferences, including developing agenda and meeting \n material as well as taking and summarizing the minutes; (c) support the undergraduate \n internship application process and maintain the records of graduate/undergraduate student \n and intern activities; (d) compile and synthesize all materials for the semi-annual and annual \n reports and internal and external reviews; (e) coordinate workflow of non-exempt staff and \n student employees, and ensure adherence to campus and sponsor procedures and policies.","bbox":{"left":0.118137,"top":0.232635,"width":0.7639079999999999,"height":0.63193}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}