**Position title:** Conservation Pilot – Cameroon Program
**Reports to:** Site-based Project Manager / WCS Aviation Fleet Manager
**Location:** Garoua, Cameroon
**Country Program/Sector:** Cameroon Republic
**Position Type:** Full Time
**Internal liaison:** Park anti-poaching and logistical team; national logistical team
**Expected travel:** Travel within Cameroon, Chad, and occasionally other international travel
**Organization Background:**
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. With more than a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, presence in more than 60 nations, and experience helping to establish over 150 protected areas across the globe, WCS has amassed the biological knowledge, cultural understanding, and partnerships to ensure that vibrant, wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities. Working with local communities and organizations, that knowledge is applied to address species, habitat, and ecosystem management issues critical to improving the livelihoods that depend on the direct utilization of natural resources.
**Position Description:**
This position is responsible for undertaking aerial patrol flights in support of law enforcement, supporting aerial biomonitoring applications, and providing logistical support to the project operations in northern Cameroon. The position is a full-time, field-based position based out of the WCS project HQ in Bouba Njida NP. Although professional pilot duties are a central component of this job, this position requires a broader engagement and involvement with the objective of strengthening the site-level development of a professionally structured and safety-centred air wing operation, directly contributing to the capac