Subject Matter Expert V

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Subject Matter Expert V in St. Petersburg, Florida. This position supports coastal and marine research focused on geologic, geophysical, geomorphic, oceanographic, and landscape-ecology processes affecting coastal environments.

Starting Salary Range for Subject Matter Expert V: Pay commensurate with experience.

When considering your next opportunity, compensation is only part of the picture. We offer a benefits package designed to invest in your future and support your life outside of work.

• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match to help you build long-term financial security
• Paid time off as part of our comprehensive benefits package, so you have the flexibility to rest, recharge, and enjoy what matters most
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage
• Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Professional development, training, and certification support
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection

Because taking care of our employees isn’t just a promise, it’s part of who we are.

Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.

Includes the following:

• Conduct advanced coastal and marine research supporting projects, including Southwest Florida, Hurricane Ian supplemental, and other funded research initiatives.
• Independently plan, execute, analyze, and document research and development activities using sound scientific judgment and established methods.
• Develop, apply, calibrate, and interpret numerical models of shoreface, barrier-island, and coastal landscape evolution under varying environmental scenarios.
• Model barrier-island landscape change under differing conditions of sediment supply, sea-level rise, storms, sediment transport, and other relevant physical processes.
• Conduct research involving coastal morphology, morphodynamics, sedimentary systems, geomorphology, and near-surface geologic frameworks.
• Compile, process, analyze, and interpret oceanographic, sedimentologic, geomorphic, geophysical, and geospatial datasets.
• Plan and conduct field investigations at barrier-island and coastal study sites, including locations in southwest Florida and other approved field locations.
• Collect sediment samples using percussion coring, sand augers, and other approved sampling methods.
• Conduct Real-Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System (RTK-GNSS) surveying and support ground-penetrating radar surveys, as assigned.
• Process, analyze, interpret, and document sediment cores, sand-auger samples, and other geological materials using standard and emerging laboratory methods.
• Develop geomorphological models and design corresponding field, laboratory, and modeling investigations.
• Use Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to analyze and interpret coastal, marine, geologic, geomorphic, and spatial datasets.
• Create, manage, document, and support the release of scientific datasets, metadata, figures, graphs, maps, and other research products.
• Develop publication-quality figures, graphs, visualizations, and supporting materials for scientific reports, data releases, presentations, and manuscripts.
• Provide technical input to USGS data releases and ensure products meet applicable documentation, quality, and scientific-review requirements.
• Lead or co-lead the preparation of technical reports, scientific publications, peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, and other written research products.
• Clearly document field methods, laboratory methods, numerical-modeling methods, analytical processes, interpretations, results, and conclusions.
• Collaborate with scientists, project teams, Federal and state partners, and other research collaborators to discuss project progress, findings, and technical needs.
• Participate in project meetings, technical reviews, field planning activities, and research discussions.
• Maintain organized research records, datasets, model files, analytical scripts, laboratory records, quality-control documentation, and…