22.4321, Jobs: General Ling: DEL Program Director, National Science Foundation

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Subject: 22.4321, Jobs: General Ling: DEL Program Director, National Science Foundation

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Date: 31-Oct-2011
From: Joan Maling [jmaling at nsf.gov]
Subject: General Linguistics: DEL Program Director, National Science Foundation, VA, USA

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:10:55
From: Joan Maling [jmaling at nsf.gov]
Subject: General Linguistics: DEL Program Director, National Science Foundation, VA, USA

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 University or Organization: National Science Foundation 
Department: Documenting Endangered Languages Program
Job Location: Virginia, USA 
Web Address: http://www.nsf.gov/
Job Rank: Program Director  

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Description:

The National Science Foundation is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as 
a Program Director in the Documenting Endangered Languages Program, in 
the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), within the 
Directorate for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arlington, VA.   

Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) is a joint funding program of the 
National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities 
to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning 
endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly 
half of the approximately 7000 currently used human languages, DEL seeks 
not only to acquire scientific data that will soon be unobtainable, but also to 
integrate, systemize, and make the resulting linguistic findings widely 
available by exploiting advances in information technology. As reflected in 
the new solicitation, the program focuses on language description, 
infrastructure, and computational methods. Candidates for this program 
officer position should have expertise in one or more of these areas of 
science. Because of this expertise, this candidate will also be expected to 
represent BCS in one or more cross-cutting activities that call upon 
cyberinfrastructure or computational approaches to science and education as 
appropriate to the candidates expertise.

Duties:
-  Allocate program resources to maintain a balance of support to meet the 
field's needs
-  Take action on all proposals in a timely manner;
-  Maintain an effective merit review system and post-award action process
-  Participate in cross-cutting activities related to cyberinfrastructure, or the 
use of computational methods, within the Foundation and potentially across 
the federal government
-  Work cooperatively across the Division, Directorate, and Foundation, and 
with other agencies to accomplish the mission of NSF
-  Participate in interagency meetings, coordinating groups, special task 
groups, staff meetings, and site visits;
-  Assess trends and opportunities in the field with assistance of advisory 
panels
-  Pursue affirmative action and EEO goals in selection of reviewers, 
panelists, and grantees
-  Represent the program to the scientific community and the public
-  Establish contacts and maintain active involvement in the program field 
through participation in meetings and conferences and by undertaking other 
relevant activities;
-  Pursue a personal scholarly research agenda, with results presented at 
professional meetings and published in academic journals, as workload 
permits

Qualifications Required:
Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience directly related to 
linguistics; plus six or more years of successful research, research 
administration, and/or managerial experience pertinent to the program.

In addition to above qualification, experience in language description, 
infrastructure, computational methods, cyberinfrastructure and cyber-
capabilities is highly desired.

How to apply:
Applications and other materials should be transmitted electronically no later 
than midnight of the closing date to rotator at nsf.gov. Please include the 
vacancy announcement number (BCS-2012-0004) and your country of 
citizenship in the subject line of the email.  

To see more details about the position and the application process, including 
the Applicant Survey Form and the NSF eRecruit Applicant Guide, please 
see the full announcement at: 
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/301641100

Application Deadline: 11-Nov-2011 

Email Address for Applications: rotator at nsf.gov 
Contact Information:
	Courtney Starcher 
	Email: cstarche at nsf.gov
	Phone: 703-292-4345 
	Fax: 703-292-9185

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