If you are a snow lover or fancy a dream job of counting penguins, then there's good news for you. A UK-based charitable trust is hiring staff for its post office and museum where employees will get to spend five months on an Antarctic island!
For the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020, UK Antarctic Heritage Trust has put out a "We're hiring" notification which stated: "We are now recruiting for a new team to be based at Port Lockroy in Antarctica for the 2022/23 season. The roles are: Base Leader, Shop Manager, and General Assistant."
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The website further states that international candidates can also apply for the positions, provided they have an existing right to work in the UK.
The UK charity says the monthly salary will be between ?1,250 ($2,041 Cdn) and ?1,800 ($2,939 Cdn) per calendar month.
As per the trust¡¯s website, applicants can apply, download and submit their completed application form to the HR Portal ¡®BreatheHR¡¯?by?25th April 2022.
You can check out further details on the trust¡¯s website.
To give people a better idea of what the job may involve, Vicky Inglis, one of the station's previous postmasters told CBC that part of her job was to count the penguins and their eggs as contribution towards a long-running population monitoring program for the British Antarctic Survey.
She said "A lot of scrubbing guano [penguin feces] off rocks to make sure that it doesn't get taken into the museum and the shop and the post office", adding that "The job is an opportunity of a lifetime, though not for the faint hearted ones".
She said" We did have to dig our way (through the snow) to get access for the first time when we arrived. We've got no flush toilets and nothing like that, none of the modern luxuries that we're used to."?She had worked at Port Lockroy during the summer of 2019-2020.
For the uninitiated, Port Lockroy was the first permanent British scientific research base established on the Antarctic Peninsula, and originally operated between 1944 and 1962.
The U.K. Antarctic Trust, a British charity, took it over in 2006 and has been running it as a conservation and tourist site ever since, as per CBC report.
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