SWAZILAND / All Out Africa
A Volunteer Co-ordinator position is available with All Out Africa as voluntary position for a 1 year period. This is to start at the beginning of January 2011. Food and accommodation are provided and there will be a small stipend to cover other living expenses. The position involves co-ordinating our Savanna Project based in the Lubombo Conservancy of Swaziland which comprises Hlane Royal National Park, Mlawula Nature Reserve, Mbuluzi Game Reserve and Shewula Community Nature Reserve.
ALL OUT AFRICA operates in Swaziland, South Africa, Botswana, and Mozambique and runs a range of different wildlife and social projects through offering volunteers the opportunity to participate in the projects as a means of sustaining them (www.alloutafrica.com). The main purpose of this position is to plan, organize and manage volunteers to work on the Savanna Conservation Project. Your main goals will be to achieve:
1. Happy volunteers
2. Successful research and monitoring of projects
The project work generally involves carrying out field-based research and monitoring of important wildlife in the Lubombo Conservancy. This currently includes a raptor nest monitoring study, a bat community study involving mist netting at different sites, a marabou stork radio tracking study, a reptile community study involving trapping at various sites and a tortoise tag and release study. There is the aim of developing a trip camera study of small predators as well as other monitoring for more general conservation management. You may also be asked to play a role as secretary of the Lubombo Conservancy committee thereby helping to record minutes and ensure attendance at meetings held once every 3 months. In running this project, ALL OUT AFRICA works with a variety of partners including the local university, conservation agencies and park management authorities.
The main focus of the volunteer co-ordination will be helping to organise and motivate volunteers and arrange their daily activities to gather the research data. Many of the volunteers may not have field research experience and you would be their mentor and guide. You would be responsible for organizing and motivating them and arranging their daily activities. You will be asked to help co-ordinate (in conjunction with a local assistant) the logistical needs of the volunteers including transporting them, arranging food provision (doing weekly food shops and co-ordinating shared cooking duties) and accommodation. The accommodation will be a temporary tented camp that is moved between a handful of sites according to the project needs. Running water (including hot showers and toilets) will usually be available, electricity is usually not available.
There will be long hours involved in the work, and with the bats, some night work. Applicants should be comfortable working such hours.
Other desired criteria:
– Older than 21 years
– A BSc degree in a relevant field (MSc preferred)
– A valid manual driving license of at least 2 yrs
– rabies vaccination
– animal handling experience
– radio tracking experience
– mist netting experience
– willingness and ability to organise volunteers in all research activities
– cooking skills
Please send a motivation letter and resume/CV as an application to christy@alloutafrica.com by 30th November 2010, clearly stating “Savanna Co-ordinator” in the subject line.
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