We are seeking candidates for a Project Coordinator position to help guide the NSF FIRE-PLAN: Merging diverse knowledge systems to advance restoration of fire-dependent lands and cultures in the Great Lakes region project. This is a part-time, two-year position that pays $19.24/hour for up to $20,000 per year of the project and includes full benefits. The person hired for this work will be employed by the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and will have the option of working remotely.
This Merging diverse knowledge systems to advance restoration of fire-dependent lands and cultures in the Great Lakes region project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), aims to establish the necessary relationships and collaborations among Fire Ecologists, Fire Practitioners, and Indigenous Knowledge Practitioners to advance understanding of how Indigenous fire stewardship practices shaped historical Great Lakes landscapes and why fire restoration will be a key process for healing relationships among people, cultures, and land in ways that are necessary to promote the diverse, resilient, and just ecological and cultural landscapes of the future.
The Project Coordinator will join a dynamic and growing network of collaborators to help plan and conduct a series of listening sessions to be held at locations across the Upper Great Lakes Region during 2024 and 2025, synthesize the outcomes of these workshops to advance understanding of fire as an eco-cultural process, and to identify questions to pursue through future work that are relevant to the diverse network of stakeholders and participants engaged through this project.
To learn more about the Project Coordinator position, the project, or to apply, go to: https://careers.uwplatt.edu/en-us/job/498509/fireplan-research-coordinator
