<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-jobTitle" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:left;width:1110px;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><h1 id="gmail-job-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;font-size:1.375em;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(0,49,60);width:1110px">CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship linking Indigenous Botanical Knowledge with Western Science</h1><div class="gmail-applylink gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:right;text-align:right"><a href="https://jobs.csiro.au/talentcommunity/apply/551390200/?locale=en_GB" target="_blank">Apply now »</a></div></div><p class="gmail-jobDate" id="gmail-job-date" lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Date: </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">14-Apr-2019</span></p><p class="gmail-jobLocation" id="gmail-job-location" lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Location:</span> <span class="gmail-jobGeoLocation" style="box-sizing:border-box;white-space:nowrap;margin-right:2px">Canberra, ACT, AU</span></p><p class="gmail-jobCompany" id="gmail-job-company" lang="en-GB" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Company: </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">CSIRO</span></p><div class="gmail-job" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:200px;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-CSIRO-Postdoctoral-Fellowship/551390200/?locale=en_GB" target="_blank">https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-CSIRO-Postdoctoral-Fellowship/551390200/?locale=en_GB</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">The Opportunity </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"> </span></span></p><ul style="padding:0px 40px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;list-style-position:inside;clear:both"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Are you a motivated, early career scientist with interest in linking indigenous botanical knowledge with western science?</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Do you have, or will shortly obtain a PhD in a relevant discipline area such as indigenous languages?</span></span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#000000" style="box-sizing:border-box"> </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships</span> provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years relevant postdoctoral work experience.  These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system through:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box">The Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) is seeking a highly motivated researcher to work with Aboriginal communities to co-develop pathways that will link Indigenous botanical knowledge with western plant species concepts using specimens held within CSIRO’s National Research Collections Australia as a test bed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"> </span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Your duties will include</span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box">Under the direction of senior research scientists and engineers, CERC Postdoctoral Fellows:</span></p><ul style="padding:0px 40px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;list-style-position:inside;clear:both"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO that will, where possible, lead to novel and important scientific outcomes.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Understand the intersection between Indigenous knowledge systems and western species concepts and then use this information to co-develop methodologies with Aboriginal communities to explicitly link these within a trusted environment. This will include co-developing in-field acquisition of traditional (e.g. specimen) and digital data (e.g. image, sound, physical) protocols.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Work with Aboriginal communities as well as digital data and curation teams to co-develop protocols to ensure that data are able to respond to change (e.g. western species name changes) as well as ensuring that data visibility and access is compliant with the wishes of Aboriginal communities.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Undertake regular reviews of relevant literature and produce high quality scientific papers for publication in quality journals, client reports and conference papers as agreed with your supervisor.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"> </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Location: </span>Black Mountain, ACT</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Salary: </span>$82,450 to $93,280 plus up to 15.4% Superannuation </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Tenure: </span>3 years term</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Reference: </span>61301</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">To be successful you will need </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Essential Criteria:</span></span></span></span></p><ul style="padding:0px 40px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;list-style-position:inside;clear:both"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area such as Indigenous languages or other research that has involved working with Aboriginal communities to secure Indigenous knowledge and/or plant sciences such as botany, systematics and taxonomy.</span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><i style="box-sizing:border-box">Please note:</i></span><i style="box-sizing:border-box"> To be eligible for this role you must have no more than 3 years (or part time equivalent) of postdoctoral research experience.</i></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Demonstrated understanding of issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities and the ability to collaborate and engage respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team, plus the motivation and discipline to carry out autonomous research.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">A record of science innovation and creativity, plus the ability & willingness to incorporate novel ideas and approaches into scientific investigations.</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Desirable Criteria:</span></span></span></span></p><ul style="padding:0px 40px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;list-style-position:inside;clear:both"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Desire to co-develop projects with Aboriginal communities that will be of benefit to current and future generations.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Experience working autonomously in remote locations.</span></span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">An understanding of naming conventions under the International Code for algae, fungi and plants</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Special Requirements:</span></span></span></span></p><ul style="padding:0px 40px 0px 20px;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;list-style-position:inside;clear:both"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">To be appointed to this role, you need to demonstrate willingness and ability to spend more than 30 working days per year working with Aboriginal communities in regional and remote locations.</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">You may also be required to provide a cultural referee who can attest to your ability to work respectfully with Indigenous communities.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;clear:both"><span class="gmail-jobdescription" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">For details about who to contact and for more information please view <a href="http://www.csiro.au/~/media/Positions/2019/NCIM/61301_Postdoc_Fellow_Indigenous_Botanical_Knowledge_CSOF4.docx" target="_blank">Position Description</a></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">CSIRO’s Commitment to Diversity</span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">We’re working hard to recruit diverse people and ensure all our people feel supported to do their best work and empowered to let their ideas flourish.</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"> </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Flexible Working Arrangements </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. Talk to us about how this role could be flexible for you. <a target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Balance</span></a></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">About CSIRO </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">At CSIRO you can be part of helping to solve big, complex problems that make a real difference to our future. We spark off each other, learn from each other, trust each other and collaborate to achieve more than we could individually in a supportive, rewarding, inclusive and truly flexible environment. </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Apply Online </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">To apply online, please provide a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability and motivation for the role.</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Applications Close </span></span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Thursday 9 May 2019</span></span><br><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><i style="box-sizing:border-box">We reserve the right to withdraw this ad prior to the closing date</i></span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-job-location" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;clear:both"><br></p></div><div tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,32,33);font-family:customa83825fc6422437cb70fb;font-size:15px"><div class="gmail-applylink gmail-pull-right" style="box-sizing:border-box;float:right;text-align:right"><a href="https://jobs.csiro.au/talentcommunity/apply/551390200/?locale=en_GB" target="_blank">Apply now »</a></div><div><a href="https://career10.successfactors.com/careers" target="_blank">https://career10.successfactors.com/careers</a></div></div><div><br></div></div>