Zoological Survey of India Invites Application for Project Biologist Recruitment 2022

Vacancy Circular No:

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI)
invites applications for recruitment of Project Biologist

Project Biologist

Number of Vacancy: 2 Posts

Educational Qualification: M.Sc

Applications are invited for the purely temporary posts of 02 Project Biologist, initially for one year but extendable maximum upto December 2023 based on performance and requirement in ZSI, under the project externally funded consultancy projects. The details of the number of project staff and project provided below:

1. Post Name: Project Biologist

2. No of Posts: 02

3. Project: Species/Area specific Human Wildlife Conflict Management Baseline Survey and development of comprehensive strategy for its mitigation in selected District of HP.

4. Project Objectives:

i. To understand the socio-economic status of the local communities and the assess the magnitude of human-wildlife conflicts in the study landscape through field surveys;

ii. Human-wildlife conflict hot spot mapping and zone map preparation in the study landscape

iii. To develop species/area specific human-wildlife conflict management strategy and mitigation plan for the districts under JICA project.

5. Place of Work: The selected candidates will have to travel extensively indifferent districts of Himachal Pradesh and may be posted for a longer duration, based on requirements or any other places as per the project requirements including HQ at Kolkata.

6. Remuneration: Project Biologist (PB) @ 30,000/- consolidated

7. Qualification: M. Sc. in Zoology/Life Sciences/ Wildlife/ Environmental Sciences/ Biodiversity & Conservation or equivalent

8. Desirable Experience: Research experience wildlife ecology, zoology or allied subject, field survey experience in population genetics, wildlife, knowledge of Computer and basic field data collection, and mountaineering etc