About the role

Supervised by: NORDIK Institute's Director of Operations (who is also the Water Team Lead)

Location: Based out of 390 Bay St., Sault Ste. Marie, ON; and/or 1520 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, ON; will be required to periodically be at various monitoring sites across Sault Ste Marie as well.

Supervises: None

Wages: $17.60 per hour, 30 hours per week

Duration of employment: 8 weeks

Anticipated start date: Immediately preferred (two positions)

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating water quality monitoring.
• Train community members in water quality monitoring using Water Rangers Testkits
• Manage Water Ranger Testkits, supplies, maintenance and calibration cycles.
• Organize community and youth events for water quality information, training and recruitment (one per week)
• Maintain inventory of supplies.
• Contribute to a community -based science newsletter
• Create a community field guide
• Collect water quality data from northern Great Lakes waters
• Analyze data collected – trends etc.
• Create technical report for community water quality data – showing trends and findings
• Create and present findings to community members

Eligibility (all are REQUIRED per our funder, Canada Summer Jobs):

• You MUST BE a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, or someone who has been officially granted refugee protection in Canada. International applicants are NOT eligible and need not apply.
• Legally entitled to work in Canada (which means you must have a valid Social Insurance Number)
• You are between 15 and 30 years of age
• Need to work on-site from the office and/or field, as directed

Qualifications:

• STRONGLY PREFERRED: Have a G2 or G class driver's license
• PREFERRED: Access to a reliable vehicle
• PREFERRED: Early career worker