Published: Mar 10, 2025 - The Field Assistant supports the Programme Associate in overseeing the planning, implementation, and monitoring of project activities within the DS Division. This position engages with beneficiaries, local organizations, and government officials to enhance participation and ensure the effectiveness of project initiatives, including training and infrastructure development. This role coordinates input delivery, facilitates community training sessions, and assists in financial reconciliations and networking to promote sustainable results and empowerment of community-based organizations.

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1. Field Assistant, Pine Environmental Services, Sacramento, CA
Job Summary:
- Processing and sampling core
- Preparing Samples and Dispatch
- Clearing and preparing drill sites
- Complete stock takes and ordering
- Soil sampling programs, Pegging and Flagging
- Ground Geophysical surveys
- Assist/input with camp expansion
- Help with irrigation repair
- Assisting with rehabilitation of old drill sites
- Collecting of the laboratory sample bags for despatch
Skills on Resume:
- Sample Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Stock Management (Hard Skills)
- Soil Sampling (Hard Skills)
- Geophysical Surveys (Hard Skills)
- Site Clearance (Hard Skills)
- Irrigation Repair (Hard Skills)
- Camp Expansion Support (Soft Skills)
- Rehabilitation Assistance (Soft Skills)
2. Field Assistant, Valley Green Consulting, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Assist in Project Documentation and Inspection under Manager Supervision
- Perform clerical duties, take memos, maintain files, and organize documents including photocopy, fax, etc.
- Help prepare reports, plans and data
- Manage and maintain files, records, and correspondence for meetings
- Type documents, drafts, and reports
- Assist with travel and expense reports
- Update staff calendars and organize schedules
- Prepare information and research for executive needs
- Oversee mail deliveries, packages, and couriers
- Conducting desktop research to determine if wetlands and/or T&E species are present in certain geographical areas
Skills on Resume:
- Project Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Clerical Duties (Hard Skills)
- Report Preparation (Hard Skills)
- File Management (Hard Skills)
- Document Typing (Hard Skills)
- Travel Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Schedule Management (Soft Skills)
- Desktop Research (Hard Skills)
3. Field Assistant, River Tech Solutions, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Responsibility for compliance with the deadlines for data collection, reporting of data by the participants
- Providing feedback to project participants on deadlines, quality of reporting and instructions for cooperation
- Quality control of reported data
- Control and work to maintain the required number of participants according to pre-set criteria
- Maintenance and monitoring of digital data reporting devices
- Communication with other units in the Department on all work topics related to the sample, households and digital scanner devices
- Driving around Jacksonville and the surrounding areas to take pictures of houses
- Changing locks and taking pictures of the inside of run-down houses.
- Running permits to the courthouse
- Advising the team if houses need to be bug-bombed (i.e. fleas, ticks, and roaches), advising the team if the house has squatters, going to evictions, etc.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Participant Management (Soft Skills)
- Digital Device Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Communication (Soft Skills)
- Photography (Hard Skills)
- Permit Handling (Hard Skills)
- Property Assessment (Soft Skills)
4. Field Assistant, Summit Environmental Corp, Columbus, OH
Job Summary:
- Assist the Head Groundskeeper and Field Supervisor in maintaining all fields and grounds
- Help prepare fields for practices and events
- Operate grounds maintenance equipment in a proper and safe manner
- Assist with maintaining stadium and the practice fields
- Assist with event field painting and preparations as requested by the Field supervisor
- Assist with fertilizer and chemical applications
- Preparing data forms and photos reports for wetland delineation packets
- Conducting UAV flights with licensed UAC pilots
- Assisting with soil sampling on private lands and with upstream Oil & Gas due diligence site visits
- Sieving of geological samples for inspection
Skills on Resume:
- Grounds Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Operation (Hard Skills)
- Field Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Event Setup (Hard Skills)
- Chemical Application (Hard Skills)
- Data Reporting (Hard Skills)
- UAV Operation (Hard Skills)
- Soil Sampling (Hard Skills)
5. Field Assistant, Blue Ridge Field Services, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Assist the Programme Associate (PA) in planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities in the DS Division
- Interact with the project beneficiaries, Farmers’ Organizations (FO)/Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and government staff of the respective GN divisions to mobilize participation and support in the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities
- Facilitate the selection of the communities and households for the project activities
- Visit project locations, communities and beneficiaries and coordinate the provision of the inputs (including cash transfers)
- Organize trainings and awareness programmes for the beneficiaries/communities in the assigned DS division in collaboration with the local government partners
- Work closely with the beneficiaries and the community-based organizations to identify issues (technical, managerial & financial) and needs to progress with the activities and guide them to find suitable solutions
- Follow up strictly and ensure the successful implementation of activities according to the guidelines provided
- Guide the beneficiaries to construct household small infrastructure (well, poultry pens, goat and dairy sheds etc) as per the given designs and ensure quality of construction
- Cash transfer reconciliation support, assisting to timely preparation and delivery of documents with required authentication
- Identify the key players of the private sector (local) engaged in value addition and the market of the beneficiaries’ products and facilitate networking with the project beneficiaries and local partners
- Facilitate to organize workshops, training and exposure visits for the farmers/ members of the selected CBOs
- Assist the CBOs to build capacity and empower them to maintain the created assets and sustain the project results
Skills on Resume:
- Project Planning (Hard Skills)
- Community Mobilization (Soft Skills)
- Training Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Beneficiary Support (Soft Skills)
- Infrastructure Guidance (Hard Skills)
- Cash Transfer Management (Hard Skills)
- Networking (Soft Skills)
- Capacity Building (Soft Skills)
6. Field Assistant, Forest Ridge Associates, Richmond, VA
Job Summary:
- Independently perform physical construction site services.
- Working in close proximity to other field personnel and heavy equipment to complete site activities.
- Perform physically demanding tasks in a safe and efficient manner.
- Working with helicopters and in remote locations under challenging conditions.
- Load vehicles and helicopters with tools and equipment, ensuring materials are loaded correctly.
- Responsible for safe operation and maintenance of tools, and equipment.
- Support Stantec and the client’s safety management system
- Complying with safety management systems.
- Carrying out work related to construction projects, particularly in the mineral resource industry.
- Performing weekly or bi-weekly stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) inspections and associated reporting
Skills on Resume:
- Site Services (Hard Skills)
- Physical Tasks (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Handling (Hard Skills)
- Helicopter Operations (Hard Skills)
- Safety Compliance (Soft Skills)
- Tool Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Stormwater Inspections (Hard Skills)
- Construction Support (Hard Skills)
7. Field Assistant, Apex Field Studies, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Perform accurate collection and logging of samples
- Input accurate data entry of sample collection
- Perform maintenance of vehicles, field infrastructure and generators
- Assist with the planning and scheduling of field activities
- Assist in the execution of other minor projects as requested
- Manage rehabilitation work
- Assist with camp set up
- Assisting with cultural resources surveys and oyster assessments for state and private interests
- Deliver equipment and other supplies to field staff
- Repair signs and equipment
Skills on Resume:
- Sample Collection (Hard Skills)
- Data Entry (Hard Skills)
- Vehicle Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Field Planning (Soft Skills)
- Project Assistance (Soft Skills)
- Rehabilitation Management (Hard Skills)
- Camp Setup (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Repair (Hard Skills)
8. Field Assistant, Terra Firma Consultancy, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Research plot planting, data collection and plot maintenance
- Assist with plot seed preparation, product delivery, field preparation, plot staking, pesticide mixing
- Assist and support all harvest activities
- Working outdoors in all weather conditions and remote environments.
- Assist with Medium Equipment Hauling
- Assist with resolving vehicle maintenance issues
- Assist Operations Manager, Field Supervisors, and Traffic Controllers with work site
- Perform general maintenance of the facility, inside and out
- Collect data and maintain updated qualitative and quantitative information to assist the PA for regular monitoring of the project activities and preparation of reports to WFP CO
- Search for the needs of the communities in the R5n project area and inform to the WFP Programme Associate
Skills on Resume:
- Data Collection (Hard Skills)
- Field Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Harvest Assistance (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Hauling (Hard Skills)
- Vehicle Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Facility Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Community Needs Assessment (Soft Skills)