SUMMER FIELD INTERNSHIPS (PART-TIME, PAID)
West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, Portland, Oregon
Closes: Friday, February 19, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Period of Employment: Approximately 6 months (April 4 – Sept 30)
Pay: $12.00/hour, no benefits

West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District is hiring two temporary, at will, non-exempt, part-time Field Interns for the spring and summer of 2016. These six month internships are designed to provide experience in the areas of water quality, invasive species, habitat restoration,
and Geographic Information Services (GIS) as well as forestry and agricultural uses on private
land.

The majority of work will be outdoors with regular office work. Field work will include data collection, site inventories, and vegetation surveys. Office work will involve data entry, mapping with ArcGIS, administrative tasks, special projects and planning involving the “areas” listed above.

Candidates should have a strong understanding of plant identification. Fluency with GIS is also required and applicants should be able to create shapefiles, produce maps and perform basic GIS analyses.

Complete job description and application instructions are available at:
https://wmswcd.org/library/2016-wmswcd-summer-field-internships/