Monitor threatened albatrosses! A Field Team Leader and a Field Officer are required for Gough Island

 
Still at risk to mice?  A Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena pair tends its chick on Gough Island; photograph by Michelle Risi

The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) aims to recruit a Field Team Leader and a Field Officer to carry out bird monitoring and other field work over 15 months on Gough Island, following the unsuccessful House Mouse eradication operation on the island lsast year.  Gough Island in the South Atlantic forms part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and is considered one of the world’s most important seabird breeding sites.

“This position offers a unique opportunity for highly motivated and disciplined individuals with relevant fieldwork skills and a keen interest in wildlife, who can adapt well to small island living in a challenging and remote sub-Antarctic environment.  Work during the seabird breeding season is very intense, with frequent long hours of fieldwork and data entry and management, so it is important to be well organised.  Data are managed using databases and checked by creating and inspecting reports on a monthly basis, observing deadlines at frequent intervals.  The results underpin efforts to restore the Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site.”

Interviews for the two positions are planned for early May 2022.  For further information contact the RSPB’s Antje Steinfurth at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

More details can be found in the Field Team Leader and Field Officer adverts.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 29 March 2022