Contacts
Mail: iea@ieaitaly.org
Pec: istitutoecologiaapplicata@legalmail.it
Phone: +39 06 4403315
Legal office:
Via C. Colombo 456
00145 Rome, Italy
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WORK WITH US
The WILD WOLF project (LIFE21NAT-IT-101074417), co-financed by the European Commission and started in 2023, coordinated by the Institute of Applied Ecology and implemented in collaboration with 17 partners, aims to discourage the presence of the wolf in inhabited areas, adequately managing situations potentially critical issues that arise in human-dominated European landscapes.
Within the WP7 of the “Transfer and Replication” project, monitoring of wolf packs in the Province of Rome is being undertaken in collaboration with local entities in take place in the Roman Coast Reserve (LIPU Castel di Guido Oasis), in the R.N. Decima Malafede, R.N.Insugherata, P.R. Bracciano-Martignano, P.R. Veio and surrounding external areas.
Some of the specific objectives of the investigation are:
– Definition of the distributional and structural parameters of the wolf population in areas in urban and peri-urban based on previous information produced by the PAs.
– Definition of the areas of presence of individual herds in each protected area.
– Evaluation of the status and genetic identity of each herd present in protected areas.
For the execution of the activities, which will include the collection of wolf excrement and the management of video surveillance tools in full autonomy, we are looking for a field operators coordinator and a technical coordinator.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
All activities will be supervised by the staff of the Institute of Applied Ecology of Rome in collaboration with the project representatives of the protected areas.
The coordinators must have their own means of transport and be available to move around the project areas according to the instructions of the contact persons
Coordinators must have a master’s degree in Biological, Natural, Forestry Sciences, Environmental Management, or equivalent.
Coordinators must have a good level of knowledge of written and spoken English and be able to prepare technical documents in English
TO APPLY
Candidates should send their application to the following email address istitutoecologiapplicata@gmail.com attaching their curriculum vitae by 2PM CEST of 20th of June 2024
Technical Coordinator
Field operators coordinator
The technical coordinator must be responsible for controlling the quality of storage and archiving of the samples collected by the volunteers and PA technicians and the data relating to them
– He/she must be a point of contact between the field operator coordinator and the representatives of the protected areas for the organization of work
– He/she will have to, within a timeframe to be defined, recover the samples collected by the volunteers and PA technicians and give them to IEA coordinators
– He/she will have to provide support in planning the camera traps
– He/she must have basic GIS software skills
-He/she may, with a frequency to be defined, be in charge of some scat trails
The field operators coordinator will be a figure responsible for organizing the field activities of operators and will have to ensure the collection of samples.
– He/she must be able to work independently and must have the ability to use GPS tracking programs, familiarity with using tracking apps and knowledge of using Excel.
– He/she will have to be a point of contact between the operators and the technical coordinator
– He/she may, with a frequency to be defined, be in charge of some scat trails