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Volunteer Questionnaire

Please note, our field assistants and volunteers must be diligent and professional in their work; the fieldwork is often hard, and requires ingenuity, reliability, motivation, team spirit and high standards.

The purpose of this questionnaire is to allow us to see which niche you might best fit within the WildCRU. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers! Rather, we need to know where your strengths and enthusiasms lie, and the timing of your availability. We use this form to keep on file the details of people who may be available for work, as volunteers, for periods of two months upwards. We frequently find that opportunities arise unexpectedly, and therefore that it is helpful to have in mind people eager to join us.

Any information you give us will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Personal

1. Name:
2. Sex:	Male	Female
3. Date of Birth:
4. Address:
5. Telephone:
6. Email:

Academic qualifications

7. Degree topic:
8. Degree Class:		Date:
9. University:
10. Projects completed:

Interests

11. Do you have a particular interest in:	Mammals
	Birds
	Invertebrates
	Plants
12. How good are you at identifying: (rated on a sliding scale 1-5 where 1=extremely skilled, 5=no experience)
	Mammals
	Birds
	Insects
Other invertebrates
	Plants

Suitability and availability

13. Do you mind working unsociable hours?	Yes	No
14. Do you mind working at night?	Yes	No
15. Do you mind working on your own, at night?	Yes	No
16. For how many months would you wish to work?
17. Are you interested in volunteer work outside the UK?	Yes	No
18. Are you interested in volunteer work in the UK?	Yes	No

19. During which months do you expect to be available in 2006:
All
Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June
July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec

Skills

20. Do you have a full UK driving licence?	Yes	No
21. If you hold a different driving licence, which country?
22. Do you have experience with 4-wheel, off-road vehicles?	Yes	No
23. Do you regard yourself as adept at: (rated on a sliding scale 1-5 where 1=extremely skilled, 5=no experience)	computing
	statistics
quantitative methods
24. Are you conversant with any word-processing packages?	Yes	No
Which ones?
25. Are you conversant with spreadsheet/database packages?	Yes	No
Which ones?
26. Are you conversant with any statistics packages?	Yes	No
Which ones?
27. Do you regard yourself as physically tough (e.g. could you cope with carrying heavy field equipment)?	Yes	No
28. Do you think you would be able to cope with repetitive, physically demanding fieldwork such as radio-tracking?	Yes	No
29. Would you be interested in office-based work (e.g. decoding video tapes of animal behaviour)?	Yes	No
30. Would you be interested in lab-based work (eg insect identifications)?	Yes	No
31. Are you a member of any societies or professional bodies concerned with wildlife and conservation, or animal welfare?	Yes	No
Which ones?

References

Please name at least three referees, giving their address, phone number and email if known:
(N.B. we always take up references before offering a position)

Referee 1

Referee 2


Referee 3

Other information/comments:

Date form submitted: