Temporary
Applications Close: Ongoing
Purpose
Student interns will be provided practical on-the-job training experience related to wildlife management, data collection, habitat restoration, and wildlife monitoring. The benefit of these opportunities is to recruit and train potential employees seeking careers in wildlife management, research and conservation and develop a great knowledge base of wildlife and are expected to gain the ability to develop and refine academic and professional goals as well as understand the structure and operation.
July 5, 2022 to August 29, 2022
Responsibilities
Interns are involved in various conservation initiatives and projects within the game reserve and assist in all areas of reserve needs and operations. They will assist in relative field work to observe, collect data, analyses and enter the data to our systems. Along with this, students will participate in workshops, training, and brain storming sessions to enhance our conservation driven research initiatives. The intern be assigned to an ongoing project to ensure that they contribute towards long term sustainable goals with aims to impact wildlife, most notably cultural rules/regulations documentation and taking the knowledge and turning it into a social media platform for the community viewing. The Intern position may assist in planning, guiding and supervising WMFN Lands summer students. Other duties may be assigned during the work term.
Education and Work Experience:
To be considered for an internship: You must be a student, currently enrolled in high school, undergraduate degree program in a college or university, preferably in a biological/ecological sciences related field, during the internship. You may be required to provide your college transcripts to verify your education status. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
West Moberly First Nations is a unified and self-sustaining community that is in control of our own future, uniting our community in building for the future.