Dear Colleagues,
Please see the job announcement below and distribute as you see fit. Thanks! Personnel needed to undertake new, multi-year, large-scale Integrated Tick Management research to reduce human incidence of tick-borne diseases. Multiple positions are to be filled in winter and spring of 2016, with personnel based at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. All positions are full-time, salaried positions with an initial appointment of one year and the potential for re-appointment for one to four additional years, depending on performance and project needs. The available positions are as follows. 1. Animal-focused Research Specialist. To be filled at the Assistant, Associate, or Senior Research Specialist level, the Animal-focused Research Specialist will undertake and directly supervise research that focuses on ticks, their vertebrate hosts, and the pathogens they transmit. Duties will include helping to design and lead field sampling of small-mammal abundance, vertebrate diversity, tick abundance, and tick infection prevalence. Experience in field biology of mammals and/or ticks, and a Bachelors degree, are required. A Masters degree is highly desirable for the Senior Research Specialist level. 2. Human-focused Research Specialist. To be filled at the Assistant, Associate, or Senior Research Specialist level, the Human-focused Research Specialist will undertake and direct research that focuses on human exposure to ticks and tick-borne pathogens. Duties will include recruiting study participants from residential neighborhoods, collecting information on behaviors relevant to human exposure to tick-borne disease, and interacting with regional and national health agencies to collect and maintain epidemiological data. Experience in medical anthropology or sociology, or epidemiology, and a Bachelors degree, are required. A Masters degree is highly desirable for the Senior Research Specialist level. 3. Data-focused Research Specialist. To be filled at the Assistant, Associate, or Senior Research Specialist level, the Data-focused Research Specialist will work with the Animal-focused and Human-focused Research Specialists, as well as with other project personnel, to maintain, explore, and analyze all data from the project. Data will include demographic information on vertebrate animals and ticks, tick infection prevalence, human incidence of tick-borne disease, land use/land cover (GIS), and human behaviors relevant to tick-borne disease. Experience in data analysis and visualization, epidemiology, population biology, and/or medical entomology, and a Bachelors degree, are required. A Masters degree is highly desirable for the Senior Research Specialist level. 4. Two Postdoctoral Associates. The Postdoctoral Associates would develop, together with the Principal Investigators and their collaborators, novel research questions relevant to integrated management of tick-borne disease risk and disease ecology. Research issues to be pursued could include (but not be limited to): (a) comparing efficacy of control methods as a function of land use/land cover, host community composition, human behavior or property management, or (b) impacts of tick-targeted control on non-target species. Experience (including a PhD or equivalent) in one or more of the following is required: disease ecology, medical entomology, epidemiology, medical anthropology, wildlife biology, parasitology. Salary is commensurate with experience and education. To apply, visit our website at http://www.caryinstitute.org/who-we-are/jobs and complete our online job application. Please submit one document that includes a cover letter, resume and the names and full contact information (including e-mail address) for three professional references. For the Postdoctoral Associate positions, please include copies of relevant publications (up to 5). Indicate in your cover letter which position(s) you are applying for. For the Animal-focused Research Specialist use job code 16001-I; for the Human-focused Research Specialist use job code 16002-I; for the Data-focused Research Specialist use job code 16003-I; for the Postdoctoral Associate positions use job code 16004-I. All positions will report directly to Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute and Dr. Felicia Keesing, David and Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor at Bard College and Adjunct Scientist at the Cary Institute. Review of applications will begin on 4 January 2016. The Cary Institute is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) employer. It is the policy of the Institute to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. ************************************* Richard S. Ostfeld, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Box AB, 2801 Sharon Turnpike Millbrook, NY 12545 USA 845 677-7600, ext 136 SEE NEW OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES ENTRY ON DISEASE ECOLOGY: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-9780199830060-0128.xml?rskey=JTDNRb&result=44 rostf...@caryinstitute.org http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/our-scientists/dr-richard-s-ostfeld *************************************
