About the Company: Our State Government client is seeking a PO2.4 to PO3.1 Ecologist to support the digitisation and curation of the Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science collections on a casual fulltime basis (36.25 hours per week) until the 30th of June 2025.
In this role you will assist teams of scientific and technical staff who will carry out ecological condition assessments of regional ecosystems, validation of mapping products and other biodiversity information sources. You will work with ecological datasets to extract and align imagery with metadata and assist with data entry and digitization across a range of projects, using software such as Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel.
Skills & Experience: This position requires:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in biological sciences or agreed equivalent qualification and/or experience.
- Experience working with ecological and/or environmental datasets, particularly in tabular formats (e.g. species observations, vegetation plots, survey data).
- Experience with data preparation, data entry, data curation and management in programs like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access, including skills in extracting and formatting metadata.
- Can contribute to the documentation and formalisation of data management processes and workflows, such as updating data entry procedures.
- Communicates clearly and can collaborate effectively with a range of colleagues including data collectors, database managers and data consumers.
- Is comfortable working independently and managing their own time to meet project timeframes in consultation with their manager.
Desirable:
- Understands the importance of data integrity and consistency and can identify errors or anomalies in fauna and flora datasets
- Experience with programming (e.g. R, Python) or SQL databases would be highly regarded.
- Experience working with image custom vision models or tagging of imagery for model development would be highly regarded.
- Familiarity with some or all of the following, BioCondition methods, Regional Ecosystem framework, camera trapping techniques or identification of Queensland’s flora and/or fauna.
Apply! If you think this could be the role for you then please apply now! Please include a cover letter AND a detailed resume in WORD format (PDFs can be corrupted / not processed).
If you have any questions, please contact our Brisbane office at brisbane@evolvescientific.com.au or on 07 3175 0680.
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