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Channel Islands
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Employment
Opportunities
With Channel Islands Restoration
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Channel Islands
Restoration is a non-profit organization that restores habitat in
sensitive and unique natural areas on the California Channel Islands
and adjacent mainland. We help protect rare and endangered native
plant and animal species by restoring the natural habitat they
depend on for survival. We help educate school children and a
variety of other groups about the value of native habitat and how to
protect it.
We recruit volunteers and help
identify and develop public and private funding sources for habitat
restoration programs.
TITLE:
Invasive Plant Field Technician (California Channel Islands and
mainland)
POSITION TERM: Minimum of one year;
two-thirds time minimum, with additional hours possible based on
project-need.
SUMMARY: This position offers tremendous
opportunities for experience in native plant restoration on the
California Channel Islands.
Primarily this person works as part
of a team (but sometimes individually) to eradicate invasive plants
on Anacapa Island in Channel Islands National Park (approximately
%70 of time) and on various mainland locations in Ventura and Santa
Barbara counties (approximately 30% of time).
The candidate will be involved with
a wide range of invasive plant removal techniques and will help
propagate, grow and plant native species. DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES: An ideal
candidate will possess a substantial combination of all these
requirements:
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
The
ideal candidates will possess:
The candidate
must
possess:
Salary
level: $18 to $22
per hour, commensurate with qualifications and experience. TO APPLY:
Submit cover letter of intent to apply
(limit one page), and a résumé (limit two pages)
and
previous employment
references (at least three)
via email. The most qualified candidates will be invited to
interview. Further details can be provided by contacting:
Ken Owen, Executive Director, Channel
Islands Restoration. (805) 448-5726.
ken@cirweb.org
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