Researcher​/Coordinator III

Overview

Be the bridge between science and action. In this role, you’ll collaborate with top researchers at to coordinate vital environmental projects, manage communications, and ensure research translates into measurable impact. Your organizational skills will help shape decisions that affect millions across the Great Lakes.

Be the bridge between science and action. In this role, you’ll collaborate with top researchers at to coordinate vital environmental projects, manage communications, and ensure research translates into measurable impact. Your organizational skills will help shape decisions that affect millions across the Great Lakes.
Join our team as a Research Coordinator/Scientific Project Facilitator and make a meaningful impact on Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory! In this dynamic role, you'll partner with the prestigious National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA GLERL), where you'll be at the intersection of cutting-edge environmental research and practical project management. You'll orchestrate critical modeling and prediction projects that directly inform decisions about lake levels, coastal flooding, and water quality—work that matters to millions of people across the Great Lakes region.

As the vital link between scientists, stakeholders, and leadership, you'll coordinate project schedules, facilitate engaging meetings and workshops, manage key communications, and craft compelling technical documentation that brings complex research to life. This is your opportunity to apply your organizational expertise to real-world environmental challenges while working alongside leading researchers in a collaborative, mission-driven environment where your contributions will ensure the successful delivery of projects that protect and preserve one of North America's most valuable natural resources.
FWI has been recognized as a Top Workplace by the Washington Post in 2024 and 2025, offering excellent growth opportunities in a collaborative environment.

Hybrid:
This full time, hybrid position will work Monday through Friday. The percentage of work onsite will be determined by the customer.

• Providing guidance to technical project staff and project partners, clearly defining project objectives and outcomes
• Developing project schedules, including milestones and deliverables, and track and report progress against project goals
• Supporting the clear identification and assignment of project tasks
• Serving as a liaison between GLERL project leadership and a wide range of external project partners and stakeholders
• Identifying project risks and determining methods of mitigating or reducing the potential impacts of these risks
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with staff at all levels
• Tracking allocation of project resources, including budgets and expenses, and communicating status to leadership
• Providing project quality assurance reviews and maintaining quality management records
• Supporting program reporting and record-keeping through updates to project databases and maintaining internal NOAA project records
• Providing additional project and program management and administrative support as assigned
• Planning, scheduling, leading, and facilitating virtual and in-person project meetings, including small team meetings and larger project workshops
  • Includes development of meeting agendas, planning of meeting logistics, dissemination of meeting materials to participants, and communication of meeting outputs
• Documenting and sharing products from team meetings, including minutes, white papers, and reports
• Leading meeting discussions and facilitating participation from among attendees
• Pr…