[sust-mar] Field station assistant, summer job, accom., Harrison Lewis Centre, near Port Joli, Nova Scotia

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Position: Field station assistant
Type: summer job / summer student position
Organization: Harrison Lewis Centre
Location: near Port Joli, Nova Scotia

The Harrison Lewis Centre, located on the Atlantic coast amidst an amazingly varied environment offering numerous protected habitats on federal and provincial park lands. These include wilderness reserves, Canadian Wildlife Service migratory bird sanctuaries, Nature Conservancy of Canada holdings, and private lands.

This is an excellent opportunity for a returning university student to help the not-for-profit Centre deliver its programs, while in return the Centre supports the student with an honours project or to carry out independent research (with professional guidance) relating to the natural environment.

We are located within the Port Joli Important Bird Area, and immediately adjacent to newly designated nature reserves (NS Environment). Environment welcomes assistance of qualified students in carrying out inventories of flora and fauna on these protected areas. An ecologist with the Department writes: "They (students) could also do species at risk surveys and then do plots to characterize the habitat the SAR are using. Even a list of plants and/or animals is helpful."

Work term hours/dates: 
May-August 2016
35 hours per week, 14 weeks.

Salary: 
$13 per hour plus accommodations and some meals.

The Field Station Assistant (FSA) will be responsible to the executive director of the Harrison Lewis Coastal Discovery Centre (HLC).

The executive director will delegate duties and responsibilities as appropriate. The duties of the Field Station Assistant will include assisting with the following:

• Program development for natural history workshops
• Program development for rural skills workshops
• Coordinating field trips as part of the workshops or as individual events
• Fundraising
• Initiating and developing ideas for marketing
• Helping develop communication tools
• Maintaining and updating one or more databases
• Providing help and services for participants at HLC field schools, workshops, etc
• Maintain or oversee maintenance of dining/lecture/accommodation areas
• Other services as required to facilitate workshops, seminars, etc
• Work with volunteers
• Other tasks and duties as required

The student will be supported in carrying our her/his supervised research project.

He or she will learn:

• The basics of operating a biological field station
• To work independently
• To hone his/her skills working with a diverse group of people
• Time management
• To apply his/her training in a field station setting

To apply or for further information please write to the Harrison Lewis Centre at: 
HLC at eastlink.ca 
including a letter of introduction and resumé.

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