PRI is seeing to hire an Assistant Director for Facilities and Safety to serve as a member of the PRI Executive Leadership Team. Provide leadership and oversight for the Institute's facilities, environmental health and safety, emergency preparedness, and operational risk management programs. Establish organizational priorities and develop comprehensive strategies that promote a safe, compliant, and sustainable work environment across PRI and its scientific surveys. Oversee facilities operations, capital improvement and maintenance initiatives, and compliance with applicable federal, state, university, and regulatory requirements. Advance PRI's facilities infrastructure and culture of safety through strategic planning, operational leadership, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring the Institute's physical assets and work environments effectively support PRI's mission of advancing interdisciplinary research in the environmental, social, and economic sciences and related technologies.

The Illinois State Archaeological Survey is seeking to hire an Associate Research Scientist or an Assistant Research Scientist, Archaeology.  This position will be hired depending on the qualifications of the candidate.  The Associate level is primarily responsible for coordinating compliance report preparation and managing remote field stations for the Survey; collaborating with the Transportation Section Head to manage archaeological survey and testing projects, compliance reporting, and daily operation of the Statewide Survey program throughout Illinois;  and conducting scientific research focused on the incumbent's area of study while contributing to the overall scientific mission of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI).  The Assistant level is primarily responsible for coordinating compliance report preparation and managing remote field stations for the Survey; collaborating with the Transportation Section Head to manage archaeological survey and testing projects and compliance reporting; and conducting scientific research focused on the incumbent's area of study while contributing to the overall scientific mission of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI).