Benefits:

• Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental

• Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available (amount depends on Bargaining Unit)

• Paid holidays

• Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served

Education Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college in biology, a branch of biology, limnology, biometrics, oceanography, forestry, or natural resource management

• One year of full performance professional level biologist experience

Experience Requirements:

• 6 - 10 years

Other Requirements:

• Requires Onsite work

• Requires frequent travel for fieldwork (at least 10 days at a time at least twice a year)

• A valid driver's license is required

• This position may be in possession of, or have access to, firearms/ammunition

• If you have ever been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, do NOT apply for this position

Responsibilities:

• work collaboratively as part of the research team in Region IV of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to evaluate critical management and ecological questions in large game mammals, with a focus on carnivores, including wolves and brown bears

• responsible for working with wildlife managers to identify research questions and associated hypotheses and will lead development and execution of rigorous studies to evaluate those hypotheses

• assist other researchers in project development and execution, and lead or contribute to development of new or evaluation of existing survey and inventory techniques