Position status: Flexible, ad-hoc hours upon request, Casual role.

Job purpose

The Bird Ecologist, Trainer will be part of a small, growing team, contributing to the organisation by supporting our training team in delivering kaleidoscope, acoustic analysis and equipment use training, as well as assisting Sales with Sales calls, support & conferences.

This is a casual role with flexible and ad hoc hours, scheduled by mutual agreement in response to training & customer needs across AU and NZ. Expected hours ~69 hours/month, 832 hours/year. Typically, may include 1 full week of work each quarter, some weeks no hours and other week 2-3 days/week dependent upon your availability and the business’ needs. This role requires travel.

Duties and responsibilities

Essential functions include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

- Assist Sales on in-person customer visits offering training workshops, leaning on real-life experience and applications.

- Assist Sales with virtual private customer training covering topics such as acoustic analysis using kaleidoscope, improve workflows, and Wildlife Acoustic’s equipment.

- Specialist Customer assistance leveraging your knowledge of birds and bird acoustics.

- Attend selected conferences where skillset is most applicable to conference topic:

- Attend conference, including interacting with people at the booth, attending sessions to learn more about topics and provide Faunatech presence, meeting conference attendees at the conference events. Encourage sign up to raffle. Take customer details and interests, follow up with email post-event.





- Typically, present a workshop highlighting Faunatech’s relevance to the subject matter and/or audience.

- Assist with delivery of Faunatech’s virtual training (1-2 public training sessions/quarter).

- Create own courses tailored to Faunatech’s market, own skillset, and customer needs where relevant

- Deliver own Virtual Training workshops.

- Receive feedback (internal and external) and implement changes for improvement.

- Attend team quarterly meet ups in person and prepare reports with the Training team to review the quarter that was and plan for the following period.

- Maintain knowledge of all the Faunatech products and their use in the field (will provide training).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge

- Practical experience and understanding of ecoacoustic technology essential.

- Practical experience and high degree of comfort in Kaleidoscope software.

- Ability to analyse acoustic data in Kaleidoscope (birds, as well as frogs, insects, man-made noises and terrestrial land mammals) is highly desirable.

- Interest in conservation, wildlife and technology.

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, Zoom and Google Suite (ideal: Netsuite and HubSpot).

Skills





- High level of initiative, sense of responsibility, and commitment to follow through.

- High degree of comfort and enjoyment in training others small to large groups, virtually or in-person.

- Experience delivering training/ presentations to people at a range of experience levels and backgrounds.

- Robust organisational skills.

- Good written and verbal communication skills with a strong virtual presence.

- Communication with others internally and externally to ensure the information needed is received and sent in a timely manner.

- Customer first focused, diagnosing needs and matching the right solution.

- Strong collaborator in a small agile team.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or related in-practice experience at ecoacoustics. Minimum 3 years Bird Ecologist experience (other wildlife ecology experience considered). Occasional travel on weekends and after hours on weekdays.

Working conditions

- Work can be performed fully remotely or on site at our office in Rydalmere, NSW within an office environment.

- Occasionally some calls may be outside of standard working office hours to accommodate coordination with our US/UK Teams and respective time zones.

- Role will require occasional travel (all costs are covered). Occasional travel on weekends and after hours on weekdays.

- Competitive hourly rate – can discuss upon receiving application.

- Faunatech is an equal opportunity employer.

- Must be an Australian Permanent Resident or Citizen to apply.

📌 Ornithologist, Bird Ecologist, Trainer (Rydalmere)
🏢 Wildlife Acoustics Australia, T/A Faunatech
📍 Rydalmere