Higher Scientific Officer – Predictive Modelling of Bathing Water Quality (Fixed term contract)
This project has been supported by the EU’s INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
REF: IRC233261
SALARY: £30,149 - £31,760
DEPARTMENT: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Northern Ireland (AFBI)
LOCATION: AFBI Stormont, Belfast
This post offers an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced research scientist to join a vibrant and multidisciplinary research team, working in collaboration with University College Dublin and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful to ensure the successful delivery of a large scale and time-critical water quality monitoring programme.
This project is a €1 million Interreg VA funded research project which has the aim of developing a bathing water quality prediction model to enable short-term pollution to be predicted for six bathing waters in Northern Ireland and two in the Republic of Ireland. The outcomes will help to protect public health, significantly improve communication to members of the public and, in doing so, contribute to promoting tourism.
The successful candidate will act as the AFBI project co-ordinator and be responsible for the planning, deployment and maintenance of field-based rain fall and river gauges that utilise automated telemetry during the bathing season, the microbiological analysis of bathing water samples and supporting the development of bathing water quality prediction models. You will conduct data analysis, interpretation and presentation of results as well as contribute to high quality scientific papers.
Further appointments may be made from this competition should AFBI positions become vacant which have similar duties and responsibilities.
For more detailed information and to apply, please go to
www.nicsrecruitment.org.ukAlternatively, an application pack can be requested by contacting:
HRConnect, PO Box 1089, The Metro Building, 6-9 Donegall Square South, Belfast, BT1 9EW. Telephone: 0800 1 300 330. Email:
[email protected]All requests must include your name, address and reference number IRC233261.
Completed application forms must be returned to arrive not later than 12:00 noon (UK time) on Friday 5th October 2018.
AFBI is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Applications are particularly welcomed from Roman Catholics and Females as these groups are currently under-represented within AFBI
ALL APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE CONSIDERED STRICTLY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT
