Directorate Staff Roles

Namesort ascending Job Title Team Job Duties Extension
Chris Davis Deputy Director of NCAR Education and Outreach Advance Study Program
  • Leads the strategic planning for education and outreach for UCAR
  • Develops strategic synergies between current NCAR and UCP education programs and external partner organizations
  • Conceptualizes and implements new programs
  • Directs grant proposal activities and communications with funders
  • Leads and partners with colleagues across the organization
  • Creates student training and workforce development for undergraduate student internships and graduate visitor programs
  • Represents NCAR|UCAR in geoscience education, outreach, workforce development, and diversity
  • Directs the NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) program and oversees program management and administration
Charlie Mitchell NCAR Assistant Director of Budget & Planning Budget and Planning
  • Within the NCAR Directorate executive team, develops, assesses impacts of proposed financial and organizational changes
  • At the NCAR level, directs, interprets and implements best practice budget planning and development procedures and guidelines for NCAR in coordination with UCAR offices
  • Directs the analysis of staffing and budget data for institutional statistics and other management reports, including NCAR’s annual Program Operating Plan to NSF
  • Serves as primary NCAR liaison with the UCAR CFO Office on base operating financial processes
  • Oversees the development of financial reports and special projects as determined by the UCAR Director of Budget & Planning
  • Oversees the development and monitoring of the Center’s operating budget, including projections of NSF Base operating carryover; multi-year scientific project encumbrances; and NCAR's reporting to NSF
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Angela Richardson APAR Project Director NCAR Director’s Office
  • Identifies and defines requirements and addresses the needs, concerns, and expectations of stakeholders in planning and executing each project to meet project deliverables.  
  • Assesses project risks, identifies mitigation strategies, and implements project risk management plans.
  • Creates and monitors schedules and milestones.
  • Balances competing project constraints (scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, risks) and handling change requests.  
  • Develops and implements mechanisms for monitoring and forecasting project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project members and EOL management.
  • Participates and leads, as appropriate, project meetings and monitors day-to-day progress of APAR project.  
  • Identifies, manages, and motivates project team members throughout the lifecycle of the project.
  • Develops and implements communication strategy among stakeholders that is active, effective, and collaborative in nature.
  • Conducts reviews and prepares documentation, correspondence, reports and plans as appropriate.
Andrea Martinez Contract Management Analyst Budget and Planning
  • NOAA IDIQ Administrator
  • Contract Compliance
  • Scientific and financial reporting to NOAA
  • Collaboration with Labs/Programs in regard to NOAA IDIQ compliance
  • Collaboration with UCAR Contracts department in administrating the NOAA IDIQ
  • Designs and documents features of the proposal and budget software sytem
  • Leads proposal, review, and submission process in response to RFPs
  • Liaison on RFP reviews with UCAR Contracts office and other outside sponsor program officials
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Alex Morris Project Analyst NCAR Director’s Office
  • Works with project team members and stakeholders to define project requirements, and maintain them through change Management activities
  • Maintains comprehensive project plans, including Scope, Schedule, and Communications plans
  • Facilitates project meetings through detailed notes and action item determination, agenda development, and whole team engagement activities
  • Assists in the communication of project status to stakeholders via written status reports or oral presentations
  • Contributes to the effort to develop baseline risk assessments; monitors project risks and mitigation plans and prepares risk management summary reports.
  • Serves as liaison with stakeholders to define and analyze business needs, participate in business process reengineering and business process modeling; defines and documents business requirements to support organizational objectives.
  • Consults with IT end users to determine business, functional, and technical requirements for specified applications.
  • Cordinates business requirements, developing, and monitoring project plans and schedules, effectively applying project management methodology and enforcing project standards, managing change control and documentation, facilitating team communication and status reports, driving critical trade-off decisions, and working with project teams made up of division/lab staff, external advisory committees, NCAR Management, and outside vendors.
  • Facilitates UCAR wide listening sessions, and broad/ general communication project status meetings will be needed at the discretion of the project manager. 

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