Overview

Salary: £20,320 per annum

Start Date: August 2023

Contract Type: Three months

Location: Fauna & Flora, Cambridge. Current policy offers partial remote working within the UK

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora is the world’s longest established international conservation organisation. Our vision is to create a sustainable future for the planet where biodiversity is conserved by the people living closest to it. We aim to do this through the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take account of human needs. We have become a trusted entity in the world of conservation. Today FFI is active in over 40 countries.

We are seeking someone with a keen interest in conservation technology and strong interpersonal and communication skills. This paid 3-month position provides the opportunity to contribute to the development of a novel ongoing project to bridge the gap between technologists and conservationists, giving you the opportunity to learn and connect with researchers and technology providers in conservation tech and movement ecology.

You will contribute to the development of the Inventory, a WILDLABS project to build a dynamic, collaborative, wiki-inspired database of conservation technology. This online portal will become a centralised hub for conservationists and technologists to access details of conservation technology projects, products and organisations, as well as encourage cross-sector collaboration.

Your role will be to help expand the movement ecology content on the Inventory, thereby improving the usefulness of the platform to the conservation technology community. You will survey the movement ecology community to map the most popular biologgers and related technologies used in the field, gathering information about these products and identifying key projects and organisations interacting with these technologies. This will provide an opportunity to learn more about the movement ecology space, connect with key stakeholders and grow your network, and to increase your understanding of the current work being undertaken.

By building on your initial scoping work to map key movement ecology technologies, you will connect with movement ecology specialists to support them to develop and publish trusted reviews of key biologgers and related technologies, and then use what you have learned to write a blog post about your findings. You will have the opportunity to learn valuable networking and writing skills and be able to make long lasting connections with a diverse range of movement ecology specialists across the globe.

Note that this internship has been designed to create a professional development opportunity for people who are new to the conservation sector. Therefore, applicants should have less than two years paid or unpaid experience in the conservation sector (not including academic work).

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The closing date for applications is Sunday, 18 June 2023.