The Marine Institute is the national agency responsible for marine research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI). The Marine Institute seeks to assess and realise the economic potential of Ireland’s 220-million-acre marine resource; promote the sustainable development of marine industry through strategic funding programmes and scientific services; and safeguard the marine environment through research and environmental monitoring. The Institute works in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) and a network of other Government Departments, semi-state agencies, national and international marine partners.

Summary of the Role:

The successful candidate will work closely with the Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management Team in Fisheries Ecosystem Advisory Services, on delivering the research for the OceanICU project.  This will involve establishing current understanding, perceptions, and needs among relevant industrial (e.g. mining, trawling, drilling, dredging and fishing), eNGO, and management/policy-making stakeholder groups. From these, the role will be to define future scenarios of interest and societal relevance, and provide this knowledge to inform development of decision-support tools. A multi-sectoral, multi-pressure oceanic carbon risk assessment using an adapted ODEMM approach coupled with mental modelling will be carried out to enable identification, and importantly, prioritization of societally-relevant carbon-related impacts and threats, and their impacts on associated ecosystem services.

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Educational and Professional Requirements:

Essential / Important:

• A relevant PhD in marine social-ecological analysis, or a related field. 
• Demonstrated experience of working in fisheries and/or marine ecosystem science or similar.
• Demonstrated experience of working in an interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary science and in eliciting the perspectives of stakeholders
• Demonstrated skills in qualitative and semi-quantitative data analysis
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work with, organise and effectively communicate with people ranging from scientists and policy advisors to users of the sea (e.g. fishers) and the wider public.  
• Good statistical analysis skills (ideally implemented in R).
• Proven Scientific Report and peer reviewed paper writing skills.  
• Strong and effective organisation and administration skills.
• Good time management and the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• The ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in addition to effective numeracy skills.
 

Duration of Contract:

The maximum duration of this temporary specified purpose contract of employment will be up to four years. 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 FEAS/PDRA1/OeanICU-1/MAR2023

Closing date for Applications:

All applications for this post should be received by the Marine Institute in advance of 12 noon on the 19th of May 2023. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

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Marine Institute is an equal opportunities employer