Research Assistant
Chicago Botanic Garden
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Glencoe • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $17 - $19 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Measuring demographic vital rates on individual plants (size, reproductive status, etc.)
- Measuring plant phenological events: germination, leaf-out, and flowering
- Collecting and counting fruits and seeds
- Recording data
- Data entry
- Other general ecological field tasks associated with the project
Requirements
- At least one month of field work experience working with plants, ideally in plant demography and/or plant phenology
- Effective communication: communicate in a manner that gains the trust and support of others
- Ability to work effectively with others despite differences of opinion and style
- Tolerance for opposing points of view
- Ability to work cooperatively, as a positive contributor to a field team
- A positive attitude even in tough work environments and when performing tedious tasks
- As this is an NSF-funded project, only American citizens or permanent residents are eligible to apply.
Benefits
- Wellness initiative benefit
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement plan
- Holidays
- Holiday Thank you pay
- Garden membership - free to employees at Household Plus level
- Discounts to Garden Shop, Cafe, Garden-sponsored educational classes
- Employee events such as Orchid show, Night of 1,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns, Lightscape employee & friends preview night
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data entrymeasuring demographic vital ratesmeasuring plant phenological eventscollecting fruitscounting seedsrecording data
Soft Skills
effective communicationability to work effectively with otherstolerance for opposing points of viewcooperative teamworkpositive attitude