Wildlife Crew Technician Sequoia NF Western Divide

Position Description Summary:

Ranger District: Western Divide Ranger District; Springville CA

USFS California

The Great Basin Institute in cooperation with the National Park Service is recruiting 2 Wildlife Field Technicians to support conservation management and restoration of natural resources/ecosystems in and around SequoiaKings Canyon NP (SEKI) to help promote stewardship of public lands during a period of landscape change. The Wildlife Field Technician will use a variety of field techniques to survey for birds and to some extent assist with forest carnivore surveys on NPS and neighboring USFS lands.

A Temporary Special Assignment (TSA) employee is one who is hired for a specific temporary assignment external from the institutes administrative operations with one of GBIs partners for 52 weeks or greater or less than 52 weeks and may work fulltime 30 or more hours per week) or parttime (less than 30 hours per week).

Essential Job Functions may include the following:

Specifically the Technician will work cooperatively with the GBI wildlife crew and agency staff to:

• Follow established protocols to conduct noninvasive surveys for forest wildlife. Specifically we will conduct surveys for two focal groups: owls (primarily California spotted owl) and forest carnivores (focus on fishers). Methods will vary by group. For California spotted owls we will coordinate with USFS researchers to conduct surveys and search for nests near fire footprints and treatment areas. We may also begin using ARUs in some areas. For forest carnivores we will primarily deploy remote cameras to detect fishers and other species and but may also assist with ongoing telemetry where objectives overlap.
• Collect and compile location and sample data from various species according to established protocols. This may include document basic information at survey sites (e.g. vegetation type fuels condition pre or postfire); organize photos for species verification and longterm storage; enter detection and other data from survey sites into a database; and maintain datasheets.
• Work collaboratively with other NPS staff other federal partners and other researchers to develop additional postfire and/or pretreatment survey and monitoring efforts for wildlife in the parks to determine occurrence and habitat use postfire in forest with different burn severity in green forest adjacent to burned areas along roadsides where hazard trees may be removed and/or in areas where fuels reduction is planned (including sequoia groves).
• Be willing to support field efforts to monitor multiple species in a setting where flexibility will be needed to ensure success of survey efforts.

Note that we expect to hire 2 field technicians one that will focus primarily on owls and one that will focus primarily on forest carnivores. However we do expect some overlap in duties and that field crew to be willing to pitch in as needed with any of the survey efforts especially with setting /checking remote cameras.

In addition to providing professional experience in natural resource management this position provides opportunities to support stewardship of public lands and to contribute to the conservation management and restoration of natural ecosystems and native wildlife in the southern Sierra Nevada.

LOCATION

The incumbents will be based out of the Western Divide Ranger District (Springville CA) of the Sequoia National Forest (SNF) which is one of 19 National Forests in California and takes its name from the giant sequoia the worlds largest tree. The SNFs landscape includes soaring granite monoliths glaciercarved canyons roaring whitewater and more than 30 groves of sequoia trees in the forests lower elevation slopes. Elevations range from 1000 feet in the foothill region to peaks over 12000 feet in the rugged high country providing visitors with some of the most spectacular views of mountainous landscape in the entire west.

WORK SCHEDULE

This position will begin in midMay and end as late as midNovember. Season start and end dates are project and weather dependent and may change slightly.

Forestry Crew positions follow 10 hour days 4 days a week schedule.

Temporary Special Assignment employees are eligible to receive holiday pay if partner approved. TSAs working four 4 ten 10 hour days per workweek will be paid ten 10 hours for all holidays. Same with other approved/allowable workweek configurations; these can be accommodated accordingly with Banked Holiday(s).

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Wage: $21/hour with overtime at 1.5x hourly rate. Full time average 40 hours per week

In addition to a competitive base salary this fulltimeonsite position includes companypaid comprehensive medical dental (with option to upgrade in coverage) and vision insurance as well as $25000 Life/AD&D policy. Voluntary shortterm and longterm disability policies are available and voluntary Life/AD&D policies for family members. Mental health support resources are employer provided competitive PTO accrual and paid holidays. Shared housing is provided. This exciting role contributes to GBIs significant positive impacts within the fields of environmental research education and conservation.

TSA employees who serve a term under 52 weeks in duration and have a thirty 30 day or less break between terms and then sign a second term that (cumulatively) becomes greater than 52 weeks of employment will be eligible for the >1year TSA benefits (equivalent to Regular fulltime employees).

Requirements/Qualifications

To perform this job successfully employees must be able to satisfactorily carry out each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Experience in conducting wildlife surveys; preferred experience with California SpottedOwl Northern Goshawk Pacific Fisher or Sierra Nevada YellowLegged Frog
• Experience in standard field methods for wildlife surveys status assessments and habitat characterization
• Ability to understand implement and adhere to established data collection inventory assessment and monitoring protocols;
• Willingness to work a variable schedule in response to project needs possibly including some weekends nights holidays
• Skills in GPS navigation and map reading
• Physical ability for fieldwork in remote areas including overnight camping if necessary
• Effective communication skills for coordination with multidisciplinary teams
• Possess a clean valid stateissued drivers license with the ability to safely operate and maintain a 4WD vehicle on and off paved roads
• Experience leading crews in the field preferred

1. Education: Bachelors degree in Biology Ecology Natural Resource Management or related field with fieldwork experience OR three years of wildlife fieldwork experience.

TO APPLY

Qualified applicants will be contacted to schedule an interview. For questions regarding this position please contact

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit use hands stand walk bend and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision and ability to adjust focus working with computer business equipment and other job/industry specific equipment. The noise level in the work environment is usually low.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be allinclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the organizations ongoing needs.

Disclaimer: Although the organization has attempted to accurately and thoroughly describe this position GBI reserves the right to change the same including to change add to or subtract from the duties outlined within the sole discretion of the organization at any time with or without advance notice.