Younger Lagoon Reserve Research, Education, Outreach, and Restoration Senior Steward

Younger Lagoon Reserve Research, Education, Outreach, and Restoration Senior Steward

Location: Off-Campus - Long Marine Lab

Job : 83081

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Budgeted Salary: $70,000 - $85,000/year. Salary commensurate with skills, qualifications and experience.

Benefits Level Eligibility: Full benefits

Schedule Information: Full-time, Fixed;
Percentage of Time: 100%, 40 Hours per Week;
Days of the Week:
Mon-Fri, with an occasional evening or weekend;
Shift Includes:
Day, Evening, Weekend

Employee Classification: Career appointment

Job End Date: None

Work Location: Off-Campus - Long Marine Lab

Union Representation: 99 - Non-Represented

Job Code Classification: 005189 (FIELD RESEARCHER
3) - Grade 20

Travel: Never or Rarely

• Leads, coordinates and performs on-the-ground native habitat restoration efforts including seed collection, propagation, weeding, planting, and irrigation.
• Documents activities and follows up in accordance with relevant policies and regulations.
• Drives University vehicle to pick up and deliver plants and supplies.

• Leads, coordinates and performs general land stewardship and maintenance activities including trail maintenance, invasive species removal, and vegetation control.
• Documents activities and follows up in accordance with relevant policies and regulations.

• Supports on-the-ground research, education, and outreach efforts such as class visits and for-credit internships.
• Leads and coordinates student interns, field assistants, volunteer work crews, and outreach tours.
• Drives University vehicle to transport students to and from field sites.

• Ensures instrumentation, infrastructure and required field research commodities and other materials support research goals.
• Leads, coordinates, and performs flora and fauna monitoring efforts.
• Procures, deploys, troubleshoots, and maintains sensors and equipment including trail counters, passive acoustic recorders, and camera traps.
• Assists with weather station maintenance.
• Identifies and obtains required approvals for wildlife monitoring efforts.
• Contacts regulatory agencies and maintains required permits (USFWS, CDFW, USGS, etc.).

• Responsible for study documentation, logs, field data, and GIS database.
• Conducts background research for briefs and presentations.
• Provides research and writing support to grant proposals, meeting summaries and reports.

• Assists with assessing and monitoring policies and procedures for remote field sites and/or research studies.
• Evaluates and investigates opportunities for improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in biological or environmental sciences with experience in conducting flora and fauna surveys and/or equivalent experience / training.
• Thorough knowledge of safety, legal, cultural and regulatory requirements relative to field research responsibility and the ability to train others.
• Extensive experience working in field-based projects that include habitat management, restoration, invasive species removal, seed collection, plant propagation, planting, etc.
• Extensive biological and environmental monitoring skills (transect/quadrat surveys, avian point counts, small mammal trapping, weather stations, passive acoustic recording, camera traps, etc.).
• Experience with basic carpentry tasks and land management tools/activities (hammer, saw, screwdriver, power saw, shovel, rake, pulaski, mower, string trimmer, chainsaw, etc.).
• Proficient with computers and mainstream business software and office equipment (Google suite, MSOffice, email, copiers etc.).
• Experience with GPS and ArcGIS.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills to interact effectively with faculty, staff, students, agency personnel, and the public to represent the reserves accurately at campus and public meetings and to provide clear and concise scientific, technical, and general information in a variety of…