Careers in conservation

Role purpose
To ensure best practice environmental management throughout the New Zealand Antarctic Programme.

Key accountabilities include:

• Supporting the Operations and Infrastructure team to monitor and understand the environmental impacts of Scott Base activities
• Providing advice on best practice environmental technologies and practices
• Supporting our Environmental Impact Assessment obligations
• Area Protection and Management planning
• Enviro-Mark standard and CEMARS accreditation maintained
• Contributing to Antarctic Treaty exchange of information
• Contributing to our Zero Harm culture

To be successful you will need to have:

• A Masters degree preferably in an environmental discipline with relevant experience
• Strong organisational skills
• A good understanding of relevant national and international Antarctic legislation
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Sound knowledge of PC-based database systems
• Auditing experience (ideally environmental)
• Some previous Antarctic experience is preferable

This role may require periods of up to two months at a time to be spent in Antarctica. This will require the successful applicant to be certified as 'medically fit' for Antarctic employment by Antarctica New Zealand's Medical Assessor.

Applications will close on Monday 13 February 2012

For more information and to apply, visit www.antarcticanz.govt.nz