Hiring Organization:
University of Lethbridge
Date Posted:
2010-04-25
Position Description:
We are looking for one or two people to assist in ongoing behavioural and ecological data collection on habituated vervet monkeys at our semi-desert research site in South Africa. We are primarily interested in people who can spend more than six months - preferably a year - at the site and who are able to begin by August 2010. The successful applicant(s) will be trained in electronic data collection and will work alongside postgraduate students. The position is perhaps best suited to those who wish to do graduate work of their own at some point.
Qualifications/Experience:
Clearly, some field experience would be very useful, if only because it would indicate a proven ability to tolerate the often-tedious long days that field data collection involves, but the primary skill would be an ability to live alongside others under moderately close conditions and to do so cheerfully. The ability to drive is necessary and, to do so in a stick shift truck, very valuable.
Salary/funding:
None
Support provided for internship/volunteer positions (travel, meals, lodging):
We provide board and lodging and defray the cost of air travel for appointees who stay longer than six months. Those remaining for a full year will have all their travel costs covered.
Term of Appointment:
Appointees MUST provide proof (i) of medical cover for the duration of their stay and (ii) a valid driver's license.
Contact Information:
Peter Henzi
University Drive
Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Website:
http://directory.uleth.ca/users/peter.henzi?no_headers=1