Summary
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is seeking a College Intern 1 for the Division of Wildlife Conservation located in Fairbanks. This role focuses on supporting the management and entry of wildlife harvest data while providing hands-on experience in wildlife conservation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Gain proficiency in WinfoNet, ADF&G’s Wildlife Information Network
- Maintain high-quality standards for harvest data entry and management
- Assist in coding hunt locations using Uniform Coding Unit (UCU) maps
- Verify harvest reports through direct outreach to hunters
- Support Wildlife Technicians with various assigned duties and projects
Skills
- Currently accepted, enrolled, and attending an accredited college in an undergraduate degree program while maintaining an academic load of at least six credit hours per semester (eight credit hours per quarter)
- Copy of college transcripts (unofficial are accepted)
- Contact information for at least two (2) recent references, one work-related and one academic
- A most recent performance evaluation, if available
- Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement
- Clerical: Knowledge of filing, typing, entering data, maintaining records, taking shorthand, and using and completing forms
- Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail
Qualifications
Must Haves
- Currently accepted, enrolled, and attending an accredited college in an undergraduate degree program while maintaining an academic load of at least six credit hours per semester (eight credit hours per quarter)
- Copy of college transcripts (unofficial are accepted)
- Contact information for at least two (2) recent references, one work-related and one academic
- A most recent performance evaluation, if available
Nice to Haves
- Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement
- Clerical: Knowledge of filing, typing, entering data, maintaining records, taking shorthand, and using and completing forms
- Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail
Benefits
- Gain hands-on experience and grow professionally with the Department of Fish and Game.
- This internship offers the chance to interface with both hunters and biologists while managing essential harvest data.
- This position offers a flexible schedule of approximately 20 hours per week.
- Located at the Fairbanks ADF&G office; shared workspace overlooking the Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.
- Opportunities to assist the public at the front counter.
- Health insurance, which includes employer contributions toward medical/vision/dental
- Employer paid Basic Life insurance with additional coverage available
- Optional insurance benefits: group-based insurance premiums for term life
- Optional insurance benefits: group-based insurance premiums for long-term and short-term disability
- Optional insurance benefits: group-based insurance premiums for accidental death and dismemberment
- Optional insurance benefits: group-based insurance premiums for long-term care
- Optional insurance benefits: supplemental survivor benefits
- Employee-funded flexible spending accounts for tax savings on eligible health care or dependent care expenses
- Retirement benefits: Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/Teachers' Retirement System (TRS)
- Matching employer contribution into a defined contribution program (new employees)
- Employer contribution into a defined benefit or defined contribution program (current employees)
- Contributions to the Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan in lieu of contributions to Social Security
- Option to enroll in the Alaska Deferred Compensation Program
- Personal leave with an accrual rate increase based on time served
- Twelve (12) paid holidays a year