Directorate Staff Roles

Name Job Title Team Job Duties Extensionsort ascending
Nathan Aderhold Budget Analyst II NCAR Director’s Office
  • Leads proposal review and submission process for proposals in response to sponsor announcements resulting in grants or cooperative agreements
  • Responsible for review and analysis of proposal budgets, budget justifications, and other proposal components for compliance with UCAR policy and sponsor policies and procedures
  • Corresponds with sponsors’ program officers to clarify eligibility and solicitation requirements
  • Reviews and applies knowledge of sponsor announcements and eligibility, policy and procedure requirements and provides direction to the laboratory
  • Reviews proposals for mission appropriateness and compliance with NCAR/NSF Criteria.  Recommends approval of the NCAR Criteria to the Manager of Proposal Operations and NCAR Deputy Director
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. 
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.
Domi Colegrove Project Manager II NCAR Director’s Office
  • Partners with NCAR senior leadership personnel (NCAR Director, NCAR Senior Advisor, NCAR Deputy Director, NCAR Assistant Director for Programs and Implementation, and NCAR Senior Project Manager) as required to define project outcomes, project success metrics and criteria, and resource and schedule commitments.
  • Collaborates with and supports the NCAR Director, NCAR Deputy Director, NCAR Assistant Director for Programs and Implementation, and NCAR Senior Project Manager in all aspects of assigned strategic and/or business process programs including requirements development, planning (scope, schedule, and budget), and execution.
  • Facilitates interactions between functional leaders and NCAR staff members involved with projects, NCAR senior leadership, and other stakeholders and/or sponsors to drive successful project outcomes.
  • Establishes strong relationships with program/project sponsor(s) and maintains regular communications on program/project progress.
Molly Killinger APAR Project Manager NCAR Deputy Director Office
  • Provides high-level project management support for the APAR project 
  • Supports the APAR Project Director in directing the efforts of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and support staff as well as several university and industry collaborators 
  • Creates and ensures successful implementation of all planning materials necessary for successful scope, schedule, cost, performance and risk management for the APAR project 
  • Provides Project Management, Communication, and Stakeholder Engagement for the APAR Project
  • Assesses project risks, identifies mitigation strategies, and implements project risk management plans
  • Creates and monitors schedules and milestones

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