Postdoctoral Position: Developer for NEPAccess: An Environmental Decision-Making Database, University of Arizona
Job Description To support a new, 3-year, NSF-funded research project to create NEPAccess, an environmental decision-making database, the University of Arizona invites applications for a full stack web applications developer. The position is an exciting opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research team—comprising researchers from the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment (Laura López-Hoffman), School of Government and Public Policy (Elizabeth Baldwin), College of Law (Marc Miller), School of Information (Steven Bethard), and Department of Management Information Systems (Sudha Ram)—related to environmental decision-making and citizen participation in the U.S. The selected candidate will develop scalable techniques to organize and analyze (and publish scholarly papers on) documents and data arising from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and housed a variety of repositories and federal agency sources. The candidate will integrate these disparate data sources using relational and graph databases and will work with stakeholders and users to develop a web front-end and a suite of tools to support the retrieval and analysis of data. The candidate should be comfortable with all phases of the software development life cycle. This is a one-year position, renewable to a maximum of 3 years, with the possibility of renewal contingent on availability of funding. Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more! See: https://uacareers.com/postings/33256 For more information, contact: Rebecca Quintero, bquint...@email.arizona.edu (posted 01-09-2019)
