Research Associate II, Step 2

The Research Associate II will support the IMPACT Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). NASA's IMPACT Project Office monitors trends and progressions across the informatics, data science, and information technology communities in order to inform strategy and develop effective solutions for Earth science data management and dissemination. Additionally, the IMPACT Project Office provides a broad user perspective as to how NASA Earth science data and information are represented and communicated. The IMPACT project fosters cross-community collaborations in order to improve all phases of the Earth science data life cycle, including processes, policies, engineering, and information communication.

Duties / Responsibilities
• Communicate with stakeholders of various data sets.
• Perform scientific research, and review scientific and technical materials for clarity and quality.
• Maintain reporting pipeline of IMPACT accomplishments.
• Responsible for technical writing duties and responsibilities that require. independent judgment. Demonstrate proofreading, and editing skills to support and contribute to IMPACT reporting requirements.
• Manage and support communications efforts with data providers as needed.
• Provide support to IMPACT in creation and testing of scientific and technical products.

• Bachelor's degree in Remote Sensing, Data Science, Earth System Science, Environmental Science, or a related field
• Minimum of 15 months of full-time verifiable work experience
• Working knowledge of satellite data sets in GIS frameworks
• Experience in Python
• Excellent communication skills

• Master's degree in Remote Sensing, Data Science, Earth System Science, Environmental Science or a related field
• Proposal writing experience

$48,750 - $52,499