WMIL is seeking a highly skilled seabird ecologist to join our motivated team for one year (1 June 2024 to 30 June 2025) focusing on Chatham Island tāiko work. This position is a specialised role with WMIL, who are delivering this work in a partnership with the Department of Conservation and local landowners. This role is to implement conservation management to save the critically endangered Chatham Island tāiko from extinction. A varied and demanding position, work focuses on intensive monitoring of Chatham Island tāiko breeding pairs and maintaining predator control trap lines in the Tuku Nature Reserve and adjacent private land. For 9 months of the year, it is based at the Chatham Island Taiko Trust Field Base “Taiko Camp” in the Southwest corner of Main Chatham Island, with the