Stewardship Field Assistant

5 months ago

Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Nature Trust Full time

**Are you a conservation-minded individual with a love for wild spaces in all weather, with an ability to find satisfaction in a day in the field alone, and the ability to navigate yourself back out of the woods?** **The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is seeking a Stewardship Field Assistant to care for its almost 10 000 hectares. In this role, you will visit Nature Trust lands on foot and by kayak, documenting human impacts and ecological changes. You will work with eager volunteers, helping them feel more confident monitoring on their own and in using our monitoring app, and you will assist with stewardship events and activities. This job requires an energetic individual who is responsible and organized, and who is just as happy bushwhacking through hardwoods, coastal forest and shrub barrens as they are hiking on a trail. If you are looking for a satisfying challenge and a chance to see and care for Nova Scotia’s wild spaces, this is it.**

**ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Reporting to the Stewardship & Technology Coordinator, the Stewardship Field Assistant is essential to the Nature
Trust’s annual monitoring program and its general stewardship program, visiting Nature Trust properties across
the province and mentoring volunteers.

**Stewardship Responsibilities**:

- Under the guidance of the Stewardship & Technology Coordinator, efficiently plan a summer of

monitoring visits and volunteer mentoring sessions across the province.
- Property monitoring and reporting using Landscape, sometimes with local volunteers.
- Easement monitoring and reporting, including communication with volunteers who monitor easements

and with easement landowners.
- Respond to volunteer inquiries and questions about using Landscape and troubleshoot using online

resources as necessary.
- Under direction from the stewardship team, plan, assist with or execute work parties or stewardship

events to accomplish stewardship work with Nature Trust staff and assist with other events.
- Undertake other field work as assigned to support the stewardship program
- Assist with stewardship activities (including boundary maintenance, signage installation, invasive

species removal)
**Administrative/Technical Responsibilities**:

- Use tracking systems in Landscape for monitoring, reporting and stewardship actions as trained.

Communications
- Work with Property Guardians and other volunteers as required for property monitoring and

stewardship activities.
- Occasionally provide social media updates and write for newsletters (Landlines and Branches).

Other responsibilities as required

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS**:
biology, fish and wildlife, ecosystem management or related fields.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

**JOB SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES**:

- Ability to navigate extremely varied terrain on foot, over long distances, using GPS or compass (this is

absolutely essential to this role
- Ability to work in an unstructured environment and remain organized
- Ability to track progress against goals
- Ability to competently use the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word and Excel, and to learn to use the

stewardship database, Landscape.
- Ability to kayak or canoe is considered a serious asset
- Ability to work independently while maintaining team relationships
- Valid driver’s license
- GIS capabilities are considered an asset
- Species identification, especially of species at risk or species of conservation concern, is considered an

asset

**WORKING CONDITIONS**
This position requires a combination of office and field work. For the duration of the 16-week position, the
require camping at or near worksites. Travel expenses (food, rental vehicle and accommodations) are covered.
Office work will take place on-site at the Nova Scotia Nature Trust office in Dartmouth, NS.

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