Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
Antarctic France
Overview
French Polar Institute Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV ) recruits each year for stations in the Austral Islands and Dumont d’Urville, forty VSC who ensures the continuity of observations during the wintering. IPEV is the resources agency for furthering French research in the polar regions. The IPEV makes available human, logistical and technical resources and funding, but also sets the legal framework necessary for developing national polar and subpolar scientific research.
Details
Where:
- Dumont d’Urville in Terre Adélie
- Concordia research station in Antarctica
- Martin-de-Viviès station on Amsterdam Island
- Alfred Faure station on the Crozet archipelago
- Port-aux-Français in Kerguelen Islands
Recruits are in charge of
- Ensures the monitoring, with research laboratories in France, for scientific programs taking place in the field: maintenance of acquisitions systems, collecting all the data needed to conduct these programs.
- Participates in the operation and maintenance of station on the technical level.
The IPEV can support before departure, 6-week training in the scientific unit of attachment and a training for sorting through data during 6 weeks also at wintering return.
The wintering is constituted of a period of 12 consecutive months. Missions, in these remote areas of the world inhabited and difficult to access, are composed of a select group of individuals (15 to 60 people). In this context of isolation, each must be able to integrate the community living environment.
This experience constitutes undeniably an asset for professional integration as indicate a survey of former volunteers. IPEV mainly offers positions for a wintering for 13 to 14 months.
When: Personal leave during the austral summer (October-December).
Duration : average of 13 months and for 4 posts 6 months.
How: recruitment period in two phases:
– Review of candidate file from January to June
– Selection and interviews with the candidates from March to June
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Young graduates aged from 18 years as part of the Voluntary Civic Service (VSC)
VSC is designed for young beginners with little professional experience (38 positions).
Who: Voluntary Civic Service is open to any male or female over the age of 18 years.
Conditions for access to voluntary civic service:
Voluntary person must have:
- Either French nationality
- Or the nationality of a Member State of the European Union
- Or the nationality of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area
- Or justify to be legally resident in France for more than one year under cover of one of the residence permits listed Chapter II Section 2 of Act No. 2010-241.
Recruits are loaded:
- Firstly, to monitor scientific programs taking place in the field, working in conjunction with research laboratories in France: maintenance of acquisitions systems, collecting all the data necessary for the conduct of these programs;
- Secondly, to participate in the operation and maintenance of bases technically.
The required level of minimum BAC + 2 with the exception of a few specific occupations such as baker, carpenter.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
Voluntary Civic service is not a volunteer work, the VSC receive a monthly allowance of 1,012 euros net, not subject to income tax, housed and fed during the mission in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
