Research Group Program Coordinator - 140961

Payroll

Title:

BLANK AST 3

Department:
Geosciences Research Division

Hiring Pay Scale: $62,744.40 - $72,098.64

Worksite: SIO

Appointment Type:
Limited Appointment

Appointment Percent: 40%

Union: CX Contract

Total Openings: 1

Work Schedule:

Variable, 4 hrs/day, Mon-Thurs, Tues-Fri, or other flexible options

Filing Deadline:
Mon 8/31/2026

UC San Diego values and welcomes people from all backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of our team, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply.

This is a one (1) year 40% Limited appointment position. This appointment may be extended or converted to career status at 50% based on the needs and funding of the department. Tentative work schedule of 16 hours per week is flexible/negotiable.

The Earth Section of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography encompasses research in the Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the Geosciences Research Division (GRD). Research in IGPP spans a broad range of topics in geophysics including seismology, geodynamics, geodesy and crustal deformation, geomorphology, planetary physics, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism, oceanography and electrical methods. The Cecil and Ida Green IGPP is recognized internationally as an outstanding research and teaching institution in geophysics with focus on maintaining modern infrastructure for conducting research including buildings, computer networks, computing mass storage, seagoing instrumentation, communications and global observatories.

Research in GRD embraces atmospheric, marine and solid earth chemistry, cosmochemistry, paleoceanography and paleo climate, stratigraphy, geobiology and paleo ecology, hydrogeology, global and regional tectonics, and paleomagnetism.

IGPP has 45 academics in various titles (Professor, Professor-in-Residence, Research Scientist, Project Scientist and Specialist), several Research Associates/Visiting Scholars, 10 Postdoctoral Scholars, 30 graduate students and 80 staff. The Institute has approximately $22 million in annual federal, state and private allocations and $27 million in expenditures. It occupies 55,000 square feet of space including instructional and research support space, administrative offices and research labs.

IGPP has 4 recharge facilities providing services to UCSD and the geophysics community. IGPP manages the operations of the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation for Earth Sciences and its endowment under the direction of the Board of Directors. The foundation provides funding for postdoctoral fellowships, seed money for new research, support for visiting scholars and cost‑sharing funds.

GRD is home to 38 academics in various titles (Professor, Research Professor, Research Scientist, Project Scientist and Specialist), 10 Research Associates and Visiting Scholars, 10 Postdoctoral Scholars, 45 graduate students and 45 staff. GRD expends approximately $10 million annually in federal, state and private funds. The Division occupies over 65,000 square feet of space including research support space, research labs, geological collections space and administrative offices.

The deep ocean is the largest — and least well studied — ecosystem on Earth. Despite comprising most of Earth's habitable volume, little is known about how microbial and metazoan communities are distributed through the ocean interior or how they may respond to climate change. This program, supported by a philanthropic organization, the Fund For Science and Technology (FFST), is establishing the first globally distributed biomolecular observing network for the deep ocean, integrating recently developed genomic and molecular tools with long-running physical and chemical observation systems that have been collecting data for decades but have rarely been sampled for biology.

Under general supervision of the Principal Investigator (PI), the Program Coordinator is independently responsible for organization, analysis and execution of executive…