Background:
Wildlife Trust of India is looking for a Programme Officer/Assistant Programme Officer for its Human Resources division to work in coordination with the HR Programme Officer.

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinating interviews.
• Coordinating trainings for staff members (Orientation/Capacity building).
• Maintaining leave records.
• Maintaining HRMS (HR software).
• Maintaining HR related documents.
• Maintaining personal files.
• Processing mediclaims and Group Personal Insurance Claims in coordination with the Programme Officer.
• Completing recruiting formalities for new staff members.
• Completing formalities for staff member leaving the organisation.

Skills:

• Understanding of HR issues.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in MS Office, specially Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications:
M.B.A in HR/Pursuing MBA in HR.

Experience:
Freshers or candidates with relevant  experience.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India is looking for a field officer for it’s project in Assam. The candidate must have a good knowledge of surveys and groundtruthing of wildlife areas.

Job Responsibilities:

• Survey and groundtruth elephant corridors in Assam.
• Monitor corridor for animal usage.
• Undertake survey to assess dependence of people on corridor forest.
• Prepare plans for securing elephant corridors.
• Assist in running a public campaign at village/district level.

Skills:

• Knowledge of survey and groundtruthing of wildlife areas.
• Experience in survey and monitoring of wild animals and habitat, especially elephants.
• Experience of working with local community  for wildlife/environment conservation and good understanding of community dynamics.
• Excellent communication skills, especially with rural/tribal communities.
• Fluency in Assamese language.
• Working knowledge of  MS Office.

Qualifications:
Post-graduate in Wildlife Sciences, Zoology, Environment Biology.

Desirable experience:
1-2 years' work experience in wildlife sector.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is looking for a Field Officer for its Wayanad Elephant Corridor Project in Kerala. The incumbent will be responsible for on site implementation of the project. This post requires extensive travelling.

Job Responsibilities:

• Point Person for the specific field and on site implementation of the project.
• Work with local community for wildlife conservation and securing the elephant corridor.
• Conduct workshops and group meetings with local people, villagers.
• Network with local NGOs, relevant Government Departments.
• Report writing, day to day documentation.
• Assist in running a public campaign at village/district level.

Skills:

• In-depth knowledge and experience in participatory conservation, eco-development and alternative livelihood.
• Experience of working with local community for wildlife/ environment conservation.
• Good understanding of community dynamics and ability to think fast
• Ability to live and work in interior rural areas.
• Fluency in Malayalam.
• Be able to organise people and provide leadership.

Qualifications:
Graduate in any discipline. Masters in Social Work or Development Studies will be preferable.

Experience:
At least 2-3 years' experience in the above-mentioned profile.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is looking for a Field Officer/Assistant Field Officer for its Dudhwa Train Hit Project in Uttar Pradesh. The incumbent will be responsible for on site implementation of the project.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct surveys on ecological and physical aspects of areas along the railway track and surrounding habitats.
• Scientific investigation to find factors responsible for train accidents.
• Organise meetings, workshops and awareness activities for various stakeholders.
• Liaison with various government agencies.
• Implementation and monitoring of mitigation measures.
• Report writing, day to day documentation of the activities undertaken.

Skills:

• Good understanding of human-elephant conflict mitigation techniques.
• Ability to live and work in interior rural areas.
• Ability to liaison with various govt agencies, organise people and provide leadership.
• Excellent communication skills in local language.
• Budgeting skills.
• Familiarity of campaign tools. 

Qualifications:
M.Sc in Biological Sciences (Wildlife/ Forestry/ Zoology/ Botany/ Life Sciences).

Experience:
At least 1-2 years' experience in the above-mentioned profile.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is looking for two Field Officers for its ‘Kalandar Alternative Livelihood Project’ in Munger, Bihar and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The incumbent will work towards the project goal of eradicating the tradition of sloth bear dancing. These posts require extensive travelling.

Job Responsibilities:

• Point person for the specific field and on site implementation of the project.
• Execute alternative livelihood initiatives.
• Scientific monitoring of the initiative.
• Conduct workshops and group meetings with local people, villagers, etc.
• Network with local NGOs, relevant Government Departments, etc.
• Report writing, day to day documentation.
• Photo and video documentation of the activities conducted.

Skills:

• In-depth knowledge and experience in participatory conservation, eco-development and alternative livelihood.
• Good understanding of community dynamics and ability to think fast.
• Ability to live and work in interior rural areas.
• Ability to organise people and provide leadership.
• Excellent communication skills in respective local languages and Hindi.
• Budgeting skills.
• Familiarity of campaign tools. 

Qualifications:
Graduates in any discipline. Candidates with Masters degree in Social Work or Development Studies will be given preference.

Experience:
At least 2-3 years' experience in the above-mentioned profile.

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Background:
This is a senior management position, reporting to the Chief Operations Officer (COO).

Job Responsibilities:

• Head WTI's Wild Rescue division (wildlife rehabilitation and veterinary skill unit).
• Oversee the activities carried out by the staff under the division.
• Deliver all outcomes and outputs as outlined in the project plans.
• Liaise with funding organisations and relevant Government departments.
• Manage budgets as per activities listed in the project plans.
• Develop new projects and project teams.

Skills:

• Skill in organising, prioritising, scheduling, planning and coordinating projects.
• Skills in grant/budget management and technical reporting.
• Skills in implementing, monitoring and evaluating projects.
• Ability to multi-task and ability to create and work in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment.
• Good command in both written and spoken English.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office.
• Expertise in animal welfare, veterinary science and/or captive wildlife management.

Qualifications:
A post-graduate degree (preferably in biological or veterinary science) at the least.

Experience:
About 10 years of experience, including at least three years at a senior management level. Exposure to current issues in wildlife conservation, especially on conflict animal management, wildlife emergency relief and captive wildlife welfare is desirable.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India is looking for a field officer for its project in northeast India. The candidate must have good knowledge of surveys and must have fundamental knowledge of flora & fauna of that area.

Job Responsibilities:

• Survey flora and fauna in certain regions in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Map distribution range of target species.
• Undertake survey to assess dependence of people on the target species.
• Prepare plans for conserving wild species.

Skills:

• Knowledge in surveying and groundtruthing wildlife areas.
• Experience in surveying and monitoring wild animals and habitat.
• Proven endurance in tough field conditions.
• Experience of working with local community for wildlife/environment conservation and good understanding of community dynamics.
• Excellent communication skills, especially with rural/tribal communities.
• Working knowledge of MS Office

Qualifications:
Post-graduation in Wildlife, Zoology or Botany.

Desirable experience:
1-2 years' experience in wildlife sector.

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Background:
Wildlife Trust of India is looking for a field officer for it’s project in Rewak, Garo Hills. The candidate must have good understanding of the local community  and fluency in Garo language.

Job Responsibilities:

• Survey and groundtruth elephant corridors.
• Work with the local community to reduce their dependency on corridor forest and to facilitate its securing.
• Monitor corridor for animal usage.
• Work for restoration of the degraded habitat.
• Run a public campaign at village/aking level.

Skills:

• Working with local community  for wildlife/environment conservation and good understanding of community dynamics.
• Experience in survey and monitoring of wild animals and habitat, especially elephants.
• Excellent communication skills, especially with rural/tribal communities.
• Fluency in Garo language.
• Working knowledge of MS Office.

Qualifications:
Preferably a graduate in zoology/environmental biology/life sciences/sociology. (Qualification requirements can be relaxed for an exceptionally good candidate)

Desirable experience:
Minimum of a year's field experience in wildlife conservation/research.

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Background:
This is a senior position, reporting to the Director of the programme. The candidate will assist the Director in executing all activities of various projects within the PELT programme.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conceptualise and develop new projects.
• Write project proposals and reports.
• Organise training programmes and workshops involving Forest Department staff and other enforcement agencies.
• Budgeting.
• Quarterly review of activities of ongoing projects.
• Organise and assist in conducting periodic and annual review and planning meetings.
• Follow-up on various actions listed in meeting.

Skills:

• Passion for wildlife.
• Understanding of wildlife and various conservation issues and threats to wildlife.
• Understanding of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, Indian Forest Act, etc. and national and international government policies related to protection of wildlife and its habitats.
• Excellent written and spoken communication in English.
• Budgeting.
• Proficiency in MS Office, specially Excel and Power Point.

Qualifications:
Graduate or Post-graduate.

Experience:
At least 4-7 years' experience in the above mentioned profile.

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Job Responsibilities:

• Field work for estimation of tiger and prey population densities using capture-recapture and distance sampling methodologies.
• Other conservation action related work in project site.
• Working closely with concerned Forest department staff.
• Design and analysis of field based studies.
• Report writing.

Skills:

• Familiarity with sign surveys for carnivores and vegetation sampling.
• Candidates should be familiar with theory of sampling, population estimation and basic statistics.
• Familiarity with GIS and population estimation software such as MARK, CAPTURE, PRESENCE etc.
• Good written communication in English.

Qualifications:
Graduate / Post-graduate in wildlife sciences / wildlife biology / biological sciences. A candidate interested in pursuing his / her doctoral work on tigers / tiger conservation in the landscape will be preferred.

Experience:
1-2 years of field experience.

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