Natural Resources Job Board

 Organization: Utah State University 

 

Location: Remote, data coming from Washington, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana 

 

Job Category: Remote Temporary/Seasonal Positions 

 

Salary: $15.00/hour 

 

Last Date to Apply: June 15th, 2025 

 

Description: 

 

The conflict on working lands CIG group (CoW-CIG), which consists of people from Utah, Colorado, and Montana State Universities, Western Landowners Alliance, Heart of the Rockies Initiative, Wildlife Services, and Defenders of Wildlife, is hiring two part time technicians for a 4-6 month position. Technicians will help with research evaluating the effectiveness of nonlethal tools across seven western states at reducing conflicts between livestock and wolves/grizzly bears. They will be supervised by a Ph.D student at Utah State University but expected to communicate and maintain relationships with all of the collaborators, state agency employees, ranchers, range riders, and more. Applicants should have strong data entry and communication skills, and an interest in livestock-predator conflict research and management both at the ranch and agency scales. Technicians will help with data entry, cleaning, and coding, and ideally mapping using either Arc or R.

Technicians will start no later than July 1st (priority to those who can start asap) and work will continue until completed (ample funding for at least 4 months). Applicants with animal husbandry/livestock operations experience and from underrepresented groups in STEM are strongly encouraged to apply. Work is completely remote. 

 

Position pays $15/hour. 

 

Required Qualifications: 

- Experience with data entry and large data sets 

- Strong organization and communication skills
- Curious and desire to learn

 

Desired Qualifications: 

- Experience mapping in Arc or R
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field

- Ability to work independently

 

Please provide a resume/CV and contact information for two professional references in one pdf to Rae Nickerson rae.nickerson@usu.edu. PLEASE title your email “CoW-CIG Technician”, to ensure we see your application.