Wildlife Institute Of India Recruitment For The Post Of World Heritage Assistant In Dehra Dun
World Heritage Assistant job vacancies in Wildlife Institute of India (WII) on contract basis
No of Posts : 02
Qualification : Bachelors’ Degree in Arts/ Life Sciences/ Zoology/ Botany/Social Science/ Technology/Engineering
Desirable :
a) Experience in having carried out ecological/ cultural-anthropological and socio-economic research work in any one of the World Heritage sites in India
b) Capability / knowledge in field data collection for biological taxa and socio-economic surveys
c) Demonstrated skills in computer applications
d) Effective oral & written communication skills, especially in scientific/popular writing
e) Publications in journals / popular press in either English / any vernacular language or both.
Emoluments : Rs 25,000 per month (Consolidated)
Age Limit : Not exceeding 40 years as on the date of interview
The candidates should report by 0930 hrs for scrutiny of documents on Friday 15th March, 2019 followed by an Interview on the same day from 1500 hrs onwards
No accommodation will be provided for the candidates appearing for interview.
Candidates should bring the duly filled in application with attested true copies of testimonials of educational qualifications along with certificate of extracurricular activities, date of birth, mark sheets of all examinations etc All original documents /certificates must be produced at the time of registration for necessary verification
Wildlife Institute Of India is looking for B.Sc , B.A. profile candidates.
Short Job Information
Friday 15th March, 2019 followed by an Interview on the same day from
1500 hrs onwards. No accommodation will be provided for the candidates
appearing for interview.
Candidates should bring the duly filled in application with attested
true copies of testimonials of educational qualifications along with
certificate of extracurricular activities, date of birth, mark sheets
of all examinations etc. All original documents /certificates must be
produced at the time of registration for necessary verification.
This sense of introspection is an encouraging sign indeed. There are some other encouraging signs as well. For instance, the forest departments, the custodians of forests in the country, no longer see their custody as purely industrial raw material but a vital cog in the ecological wheel for the ultimate and sustained well being of humanity. Such a realization will, in the long run, help overcome the shortcomings and failures of early protective measures to preserve wilderness areas, which still remains one of the most effective ways of conserving the countrys biodiversity.
Amidst such a situation, the need was felt for an organization to help and strengthen endeavors for recovery. It was important to have an agency which, while looking at forests holistically, combined their management with conserving their biodiversity and protecting the interests of the people in their vicinity in a manner that would be practical and scientifically oriented. Such a thought process led to the setting up of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Dehradun in
1982 with a mandate to train government and non-government personnel, carry out research, and advise on matters of conservation and management of wildlife resources.
For WII, it was a challenging task, particularly when education in forest management had nothing on wildlife, and wildlife science itself had not yet been established as a subject of any significance in the university education curriculum. With no precedence to go by, WII had to virtually single handedly not only give forest education a wildlife slant but also create and develop the very resources