Project Biologist/Botanist
🔍 Santa Barbara, California, United States
Your Capabilities and Credentials
You are a biologist or natural resources management specialist and have a minimum 2 to 5 years of related experience demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility in conducting biological resources surveys and preparing technical reports. Your skills should include:
- Strong background, knowledge, and experience with the flora, fauna, and vegetative communities of the Central Coast; experience in other areas of California and elsewhere will be considered a plus.
- Experience in conducting floristic botanical surveys, reconnaissance wildlife surveys, and species-specific protocol surveys; experience/permits with steelhead trout, tidewater goby, California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, western snowy plover, California least tern, least Bell’s vireo, southwestern willow flycatcher, and/or coastal California gnatcatcher will be considered a plus.
- Proficient in technical writing; experience preparing technical reports will be considered a plus.
- Experience with regulatory compliance and/or preparing regulatory permit applications packages will be considered a plus.
- Possess skills in communications and technical information exchange with clients, engineers and scientists, government regulators and agencies, and academia.
- This role requires effective in person, tele/video conference, and written communication with team members. The Project Level professional is commonly expected to assist with planning and documenting such communications.
- Builds and maintains productive professional and personal networking relationships.
- Drives collaborative efforts within the Business Center and beyond to deliver consistent, high quality and appropriately scoped technical work.
- Highly proficient with MS Office suite (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Adobe Acrobat, Excel).
- Knowledge and familiarity with field implementation, data gathering and collection using GPS and GIS tools.
- Experience working in the marine environment will be considered a plus.
- Possession of a California Scientific Collecting Permit, State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and or federal Recovery Permit for special-status species will be considered a plus.
- Wetland delineation training certificate will be considered a plus.
- Must have ability to travel.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and good driving record.
- A medical physical and/or drug and alcohol screening may be required for some project assignments.
- 40-Hour HAZWOPER would be a plus
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in biology or related field. Minimum 2 to 5 years related experience, or an equivalent combination of education (e.g., advanced degree) and experience. Concentration in botany a plus
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather. Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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