Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) is seeking a full-time Scientific Presentation Curator. This individual will serve in the capacity of a Strategic Visual Content Specialist and would be responsible for directly supporting science communications for a project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). They must have a solid grasp of NASA science, excellent communication skills, working knowledge of UNIX/LINUX operating systems, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, and would continuously be up to date on the latest visualizations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Be present on site at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. This is not a remote or hybrid position.
• Create and continuously curate content around key GSFC priorities.
• Curate metadata for the visualizations to enable better search capabilities.
• Work with presenters to draft content for specific audiences relying on the curated playlists as much as possible.
• Intake event requests and maintain a calendar of events presentations.
• Work with GSFC presenters to leverage existing visual content developed by other NASA creative teams to curate and build playlists to support event-specific requests.
• Serve as the primary operator for GSFC visual content platforms.
• Interact daily/weekly with various levels of science leadership teams, scientists, strategic communications teams, and scientific visualization teams to build and maintain visual content collections that reflect GSFC science priorities.
• Evaluate visualizations during development stages to improve effectiveness.
• Identify areas for new visual content development to ensure clear communication of GSFC science priorities
• Produce monthly reports to communicate new visualizations, updates/changes to existing visualizations, and track incoming visual content requests.
• Support the Working Group by sharing monthly updates and by evaluating presentations to identify content that can be added to the database for general use
• Build and maintain an accessible presentation archive of presentations
• Create user manuals to operate various GSFC visual content platforms
• Explore new technology paths and opportunities for displaying visual content at GSFC

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field such as Earth and physical sciences, computer sciences, technology, engineering, math, or related field, and 13 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Computer programming experience (python)
• Data visualization experience
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.
• Solid communication skills, both oral and written.
• Some physical science coursework (e.g., physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, meteorology)
• Ability to meet NASA IT security requirements and to obtain a NASA badge to work onsite at GSFC.
• A positive attitude and the willingness to learn.
• US Citizenship required.

Desired Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in a STEM-related field
• Experience with API programming
• Experience working with scientific datasets and data (for example netCDF, HDF, etc.).
• Experience designing user interfaces
• Graphic design experience
• Experience with 3D modeling and animation software such as Houdini and Maya

EOE, including disability/vets

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.