Welcome to ISTP Opportunities

Are you a Murdoch Student looking for project ideas?

If you are looking for ideas for your Honours, Sustainability Internship or Sustainable Development Project units, then click here to see the great requests that have come from organisations who are looking for your help. Lots of wonderful opportuinities here!

Here are many more ideas from the University's Environment Office. Some of these are suitable for volunteers, some will be suitable as projects for the units listed above.

Senator Scott Ludlum's office has some internship projects and work for volunteers intersted in relating your academic interests to the work of the Australian Parliament. See this pdf flyer for more information.

Climate Change Officer - City of Mandurah (Temp 6 month term – immediate start)

The City of Mandurah is seeking expressions of interest for an upcoming opportunity for an experienced Climate Change Officer to join the EcoServices Section.

In this position you will be responsible for implementing greenhouse gas mitigation actions. Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and relevant experience in climate change mitigation and project management skills are essential for this position. Previous experience in the Cities for Climate Protection Program is highly desirable.

If you are looking for a temporary contract or secondment opportunity to further develop your career in Climate Change mitigation projects within the Local Government Sector and are interested in working for a vibrant, creative and diverse City, visit our Employment page at www.mandurah.wa.gov.au for more information and to apply on-line.

Please provide a resume and cover letter detailing your suitability for the role. The full scope of the position can be discussed by contacting Jennifer Harrison on (08) 9550 3250 or Jennifer.Harrison@mandurah.wa.gov.au.

Applications close 4.00pm Thursday, 17 September 2009.

Call for volunteers - Environmental Technology Centre (ETC)

Sustainability students are invited to join our volunteer team. We work on Mondays and Wednesdays.
You will undergo an induction program and be fully insured as volunteers through the Faculty of Sustainability, Environmental and Life Sciences.

The Environmental Technology Centre is gearing up for winter and hopefully a bit of rain will kick off the growing season soon.

Projects include designing and constructing a new greenhouse facility to propogate native tree and shrub seedlings and provide services to help maintain carbon off-sets for Murdoch University.

We seek volunteers tocommence our planting program and will include all sorts of fruits and vegetables that will enable volunteers to share in the bounty at harvest times. Lastly, we have chickens and ducks that need feeding 3 times a week and anyone volunteering for this gets to take eggs home.

Hope to hear from you soon!
Robbie Cocks (R.Cocks@murdoch.edu.au)
Part-time Site Manager - ETC

Volunteer in India

Joining Hands, India provides great opportunities to students around the world to work with credible non- government organisations on critical community development projects targeting positive social change. Please complete the application/expression of interest form available on www.joininghandsindia.org so that we can help identify the best projects in line with your interests and skills. “All you need is to believe that you can make a difference.”

Environmental consulting opportunities

Alumni or students of ISTP, are you interested in joining URS, specifically within the corporate risk and liability group which specialises in the investigation and remediation of contaminated sites but also in our other groups such as environment, water (surface and groundwater) and sustainability.

Our course could quip you with much of the knowledge required to work within environmental consultancy with URS.

Please contact David Gemmell, Senior Geo-Environmental Engineer for further information.

URS
Level 3, 20 Terrace Rd, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia
Tel: 61 8 9326 0100 Direct: 61 8 9326 0215 Fax: 61 8 9326 0296
mailto: david_gemmell@urscorp.com Visit our website at http://www.ap.urscorp.com

RISE: Research Institute for Sustainable Energy:

Collaborative Master of Science in Environmental Archictecture. Download the brochure in pdf format (240KB)