Summary: The full-time conservation assistant will primarily focus on these main areas: provide support to the conservation coordinator, care for PWC’s wildlife ambassadors, manage the box turtle project, assist in managing volunteers, and special event coordination. Duties & Responsibilities: • Participate in the Box Turtle Connection project and manage our citizen science project, Turtle Trekkers o Promote the project to teachers, students, and the general public o Organize and analyze citizen science box turtle data o Use radio telemetry to track box turtles in the park o Take photographs and morphometric data on box turtles found within the park. Add to a statewide database. o Collaborate with other box turtle/reptile conservation groups in NC to develop the program.