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Camp manager
Hiring Organization:
Max-Planck-Institute for Evol. Anthropology
Date Posted:
2009-09-15
Position Description:
For an ongoing long-term project in LuiKotale, Salonga NP, Democratic Republic of Congo we are searching for a camp manager. The person will be in charge of camp management, logistics, and communication. This includes organizing working schedules of local field assistants, payments to local workers, organizing food and other supplies, maintenance of camp infrastructure, communication with our base in Kinshasa and with local villages. In addition, the camp manager is in charge of processing and maintaining the plant sample collection at camp. Fresh plant samples are brought from the forest on a daily basis and have to be photographed and herborized before they are dried and stored for transport to the herbarium in Kinshasa. The camp manager is also in charge of representing the project in communications with local authorities and village leaders. Information about the field site and research activities at LuiKotale is available at www.eva.mpg.de/primat
Qualifications/Experience:
Essential requirements are: (1) field experience, (2) language skills (English and French), (3) above average physical fitness, (4) above average resistance to social/psychological stress, (5) practical and technical skills required to maintain the camps technical infrastructure (e.g. solar electricity, satphone, sw-radio), (6) the ability to achieve tasks by improvisation, using the limited sources that are available, (7) the capacity to live and work with an international team of students, volunteers and local staff. Candidates should have social skills, a sense of leadership, a strong motivation to take on responsibility, and tolerance to local costumes. Candidates with experience in botany will be preferred.
Salary/funding:
300 Euro/month
Support
provided for internship/volunteer positions (travel, meals, lodging):
- food (mix of mainly local food and some western food items)
- lodging (in tents) at the field site
- airfare and airport tax for one domestic return flight from Kinshasa to the field site and back
- contribution of up to 800 Euro to an international return flight (reimbursement ONLY AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETITION OF A 9 MONTS TERM OF APPOINTMENT)
- expenses for visa (reimbursement ONLY AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETITION OF A 9 MONTS TERM OF APPOINTMENT)
- please note that expenses during the stay in Kinshasa on the way in/out of Congo can not be covered by the project
Term of Appointment:
9 months starting in January 2010
Application Deadline:
October 31st 2009
Contact
Information:
Dr. Gottfried Hohmann
Deutscher Platz 6
Leipzig 04103
Germany
Telephone Number:
++49 341 3550 208
Website:
http://www.eva.mpg.de
E-mail Address:
hohmann@eva.mpg.de
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