Science Writer

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) seeks a dynamic and high energy individual to join our team as a full time Science Writer for the program. 

The Science Writer will have a demonstrated ability to communicate research, extension, outreach, and education projects to a variety of audiences that would be reflective of NYSG’s coastal stakeholders and partners, and be able to translate that information through a diverse set of communications platforms and products. These include writing, among other things, stories for New York Coastlines (the program’s e-newsletter), press releases for media, deliverables such as fact sheets and website content.

The person in this position will help to effectively raise awareness of the program’s efforts and impacts across the State, and enhance access by our coastal communities and partners to information, products, and tools of relevance and importance to them.

The position, which will be under the supervision of NYSG’s Communications Manager, will be based at Stony Brook University (SBU), but support the program across the State, which includes travel.

Regarding telecommuting — Consistent with SBU’s current employment and telework policies, after completion of a full year of employment and a satisfactory performance review, eligibility to participate in the SBU telework program will be available and evaluated. As per SBU’s policies, employees will be expected to have a regular in-person presence at the official work location. Employees should not expect to be approved to telecommute on a full-time or near full-time basis.

Since 1971, New York Sea Grant, a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, has been one of 34 university-based programs working with coastal communities under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.