Scientific & Technical Officer (STO) Shellfish Fisheries Assessment (EMFF Funded Career Break Cover)

The Scientific Technical Officer will work with the Inshore Fisheries Team at FEAS. The STO will take a lead role in survey data analysis and stock assessment using existing methods and will participate in the annual shellfish survey programme.

Among the duties and responsibilities include:

• Implementing existing routines for analysis and estimation of shellfish survey data
• Running existing data limited stock assessment models
• Modelling of existing time series data (catch, fishing effort)
• Management and analysis of spatial data (VMS for inshore vessels)
• Participating in annual shellfish surveys at sea
• Maintaining data quality and data management standards
• Attending ICES Working Groups relevant to shellfish assessment
• Attending regional and national inshore fisheries meetings

A detailed job description can be downloaded here.

Educational and Professional Requirements

• A relevant third level degree in a science/marine science or related field
• High level of proficiency with the R statistical programming language
• Spatial data analysis skills in GIS, R or other relevant platforms.
• Experience with SQL; query design
• Strong data handling skills.
• Proven scientific report writing skills.

Salary

Remuneration is in accordance with the Public Sector, Department of Finance approved Salary Scale for the Scientific & Technical Officer (Engineer III grade) with a salary of €30,987 - €64,981 per annum pro-rated with time worked. You will become a member of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme.

Duration of Contract:

Temporary specified purpose contract for a maximum duration of up to 31st December 2020 (EMFF funded Career Break Cover). The successful candidate will be on probation for the first six months of this contract.

How to Apply:

A C.V. and letter of application, summarising experience and skill set applicable to the position should be emailed to recruitment@marine.ie or posted to Human Resources at the  Marine  Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Galway. All correspondence for this post should quote reference STO/SFA/May 2019.

Closing date for Applications:

All applications for this post should be received by the Marine Institute in advance of 12:00 noon, Thursday 20^th June 2019. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

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