JOB CAMP MANAGER at TAI Chimpanzee Project
Contract duration 24 months
Start date Jul 1, 2022
Salary: Entre 2088 et 2206 Euros
Ingenieur for behavioural ecologist, anthropologist or conservationist to manage the long-term field site of TCP in Cote d’Ivoire, Tai National Park.
Mission: The Tai Chimpanzee Project (TCP) is a long-term field site situated in the Tai National Park in Ivory Coast. At TCP we investigate the behavior and the cognition of wild chimpanzees and mangabeys since over 40 years. The successful candidate will manage the daily processes in the field site under supervision of the director of TCP based at the ISC Marc Jeannerod in Lyon (F) following protocols in place. The candidate is supposed also to follow and observe the chimpanzees and invest in creating research ideas, which can lead into a PhD project at TCP.
Activities: The successful candidate will manage the daily processes in the field site, like for example: pay salaries, create working schedules, supervise data collection, clean and store data,oversee repairs of camps and cars, reinforce health and quarantine regulations, keep supplies running, and more. This will follow existing protocols and is supervised by the director of TCP,Roman Wittig, based at the ISC Marc Jeannerod in Lyon (F). In addition the successful candidate is requested to follow and observe the chimpanzees, collect behavioural data, urine and fecalsamples and other data for the long-term data collection of TCP. It is explicitly wished that the successful candidate develops research ideas that can lead into a PhD project at TCP.
Competence: The successful candidate has experience in managing a team, can work independently following a protocol, is resilient to stress, and has experience in living under remote conditions. Since we are a research project, scientific interest in the research with wild great apes is conditional. A Master in behavioural ecology, anthropology or psychology is of advantage. The candidate must be fluent in English and French and needs to be socially mature and has good problem solving skills. Experience in Africa, where the candidate worked at a field site conducting behavioural observations on social mammals will be of advantage.
Context du travaille: The successful candidate will be part of TCP within the Ape Social Mind Lab at UMR 5229 and report directly to the directors of TCP Roman Wittig and Catherine CrockfordRisks: This work is at a remote field site.Ce travail est effectué sur un site éloigné.