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​Closing date: September 15, 2021

​Salary: $16/hour

​Job type: Short-term contract (280 hours total); flexible hours; 2-4 days/week

Start Date: As soon as possible

​Location: Victoria, BC

Watershed Watch Salmon Society is a non-profit organization that works to defend and rebuild B.C.’s wild salmon. Our work focuses on many issues affecting salmon, including habitat protection, sustainability in salmon fisheries, reforming the salmon aquaculture industry and rebuilding depleted salmon populations. We are a federally registered charity with a strong track record as a science-based watchdog organization, and we are working to better engage citizens and organize our supporters in order to better protect wild salmon and watersheds in B.C.

Web: ​watershedwatch.ca

Facebook: ​facebook.com/watershedwatchsalmonsociety

Twitter: ​twitter.com/WatershedWatch_

Instagram: @watershedwatchbc

Position Description:

The Administrative and Research Assistant will support our Executive Director, Operations Director and Financial Manager in various clerical duties. This will include tasks that have a direct impact on our program work such as data entry, data quality checks and file management. The Administrative and Research Assistant will also lead an important project of organizing and digitizing a range of hard copy publications related to salmon conservation so they can be available as educational resources for the public, researchers, and other wild salmon advocates. This role will also help us audit our current administrative training and office manuals and help us update and create new resources as needed.

Working closely with both the Operations Director and Executive Director, the Administrative and Research Assistant will have the opportunity to hone their project and time management skills. The successful applicant will also benefit from exposure to our team’s exciting program work in salmon conservation advocacy, which focuses on restoring and protecting salmon habitat, and improving the management of water, fisheries and salmon aquaculture in B.C. The job will provide experience and personal development for anyone interested in environmental science, conservation advocacy, public engagement and communications, and general non-profit management practices.

Responsibilities:

The duties of the Administrative and Research Assistant will include:

• Data entry and data quality checks
• Organizing and digitizing a range of hard copy publications related to wild salmon conservation
• File migration, management and organization
• Assisting with an audit of our administrative training manuals; including updates and creation of new resources, as needed
• Conducting research, as required

Qualifications:

• Desired level of education: Post-secondary (university, community college, CEGEP, technical institute).
• Experience with general business software such as the Google Suite (docs, sheets, etc.), MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.), Adobe Acrobat (for scanning/digitizing hard copy documents), and project and time management software.
• Familiarity or comfort in using Contact Relationship Management or other database systems (we use Keela) as well as invoice and expense management software (e.g., Expensify).
• Familiarity with Pacific salmon ecology and management (not required, but will be an asset).
• This is a Canada Summer Jobs position and all candidates must:
  • be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment;
  • be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment*; and,
  • have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations.

About You:

• You are thorough, hard-working, professional, and make valuable contributions to the teams you work with
• You are organized and self-motivated
• You have a strong attention to detail
• You are a clear communicator

To Apply:

Please submit a cover letter and resume that clearly outlines how you meet the core competencies and required qualifications.

Please email your resume and cover letter in one pdf file to Shayla Walker, Operations Director at admin@watershedwatch.ca with “Administrative and Research Assistant” in the subject line. When submitting your application please name and save your attachments with your first and last name in the title, such as: “Ann_Smith_Resume and_Cover_Letter.pdf”

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. No phone calls please.