Organizational Overview:

Wildlands Network is a nonprofit conservation organization committed to reconnecting, restoring and rewilding North America, so that life—in all its diversity—can thrive. We have staff throughout the continent working with NGO partners, landowners, elected officials and government agencies to protect, maintain and restore wildlife habitats and movement corridors. Wildlands Network is committed to recruiting, training and retaining talented, diverse and creative staff who are passionate about fulfilling our mission. Since 1991, Wildlands Network has used science-based approaches to study wildlife conservation across North America. We commonly use camera trapping, GPS tracking, and roadkill surveys, as well as develop habitat and connectivity models, to identify, understand, and inform policies that improve conservation for wildlife species. Wildlands Network has several ongoing projects throughout the southeastern United States with a specific emphasis in the western North Carolina region.  

Position Description:

Principal responsibilities for the part-time road ecology technician will include assisting research efforts to monitor the use of road crossing structures (targeted for reptiles) by a diversity of wildlife with camera traps, processing camera trap data (identifying individual species, entering data into spreadsheets/databases, backing up data, creating summary statistics), and assisting with literature review and organizing published research into accessible libraries and annotated bibliographies (as capacity allows). Additional research opportunities and contributions exist within the project framework for applicants with GIS and statistical computing experience.

Ideally, the applicants to the position will already have residence in the western North Carolina region within an easy drive to Asheville, NC. Apart from any travel for field work (Gorges State Park, 2-4/month), the intern will be expected to work roughly 50% of their time at the Asheville office and 50% in their own residence/home office. All necessary equipment (laptop, monitor, etc.) will be provided. The position will pay $17/hour, with an expectation of 20-30 hours of work/week. The wildlife technician will be supervised by the Senior Wildlife Biologist for the Appalachian Region, based in Asheville. The position will run from June 9th to November 1st (exact dates open to negotiation).   

The application deadline is Saturday, May 31st. The full job description and details for applying can be found at the following link: Part-time Wildlife Technician-Road Ecology / Location: Asheville, NC