Job Description
Glasgow City Council is able to provide a summer Internship from Monday 05 June 2023 – Friday 25 August 2023, inclusive.
Applicants must be available for the full duration of the placement.
The intern will work 35 hours per week and rate of pay will be the Glasgow Living Wage.
Interns will work for 12 weeks, during which time they will accrue 6 days leave, the payment of which is included in their Salary so must be taken during their 12 week placement.
An intern is sought to record Wetland Habitats in Glasgow on an individual plot basis to enhance the existing datasets.
This project will provide a dataset to be hosted in GIS which would be available to all departments of Glasgow City Council.
The dataset would increase our knowledge of our current Wetland Habitat provision, identify gaps in the wetland network. It will allow Senior Management information to ensure decisions regarding future Wetland Habitat creation, protection and enhancement is fully informed and meeting City priorities whilst achieving Best Value.
To achieve this NRS requires an enthusiastic and focussed individual to work at its offices in Eastgate, 727 London Rd, Glasgow and at various wetland sites Citywide. Working with existing officers the candidate would be required to be capable of effective communication across a variety of audiences and comfortable with outdoor work. They should have existing experience of GIS software or other relevant mapping software.
Surveying experience would be desirable but not essential.
Eligibility criteria
• Must live within the Glasgow City Council boundary
• Have the right to live and work in the UK
• Be in the year of study specified in the advert
For More Information please see attached Recruitment outline and Person Spec or please visit our website https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/summerinternship Please limit the number of applications to Glasgow City Council’s Internship scheme to a maximum of 3.
Application Packs
Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, Audio and other languages. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 0141 287 1054. Packs will be posted out to you within 3 working days of receiving your telephone request. Please note the closing date of the job advert to ensure that you give yourself plenty of time to complete your application form and return it to us.
Further Information
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