Search for New GLOBE Director Continues

03/21/2011 12:00 MDT - The GLOBE Selection Advisory Group (SAG) was formed to provide advice on the selection of the next GLOBE Program Office (PGO) Director. The committee was assembled by Dr. Jack Fellows, UCAR Vice President and current Acting GPO Director. On 1 February 2011, Dr. Fellows appointed nine individuals to serve as representatives of GLOBE’s broad community of stakeholders.

Representing:

The International Community: Magdalena Machinko-Nagrabecka (Country Coordinator of Poland)

The U.S. Community: Dr. Paul Ruscher (Partner, Florida State University)

GLOBE Sponsors: John McLaughlin (NOAA)

GPO Management: Dr. Valerie Williams

GPO Staff: Ardith Falkner (Technology) and Jan Heiderer (Communications)

GPO Administrative Support: Katy Lackey

UCAR Leadership: Dr. Tim Spangler (Director, UCAR COMET)

UCAR Human Resources: Delaine Orendorff (HR Manager)

Worldwide, the GLOBE Community was invited to help nominate candidates for a new GPO Director. Applications were received from 35 candidates and 21 were deemed qualified to proceed to the next stage of review. All members of SAG reviewed the applicants’ materials and assigned points based on a rigorous scoring system. From this exercise, the list of applicants was honed to six. These six candidates were then required to respond to a written exercise on leadership, management, and programmatic vision.

The top four candidates were interviewed between 25 March and 1 April, and final selection is slated to be complete by end of April. This is an exciting time in the life of GLOBE. We would like to ask the GLOBE community to respect the confidentiality of a personnel search like this. The SAG is not permitted to share or discuss the details of the search to respect confidentiality needs of the candidates.