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Here at BirdLife Malta we pride ourselves on being an international team working towards conserving Europe’s migratory birds in Malta. If you’re passionate about the environment and conservation, and would like to join our expanding team, then check out our current vacancies below.

Here are the available job vacancies and volunteering opportunities we have at the moment (for more detailed info on each, go to the relevant tab below):

Job vacancies (full-time & part-time)

  • We have no job vacancies at the moment.

Volunteering opportunities

Position: Seabird Conservation Assistant
Duration: 21st January 2026 – 20th January 2027 (12 Months)

DEADLINE: 3rd November 2025 at 23.00 CET time

The Seabird Conservation Assistant will take an active role within BirdLife Malta’s Seabird Conservation team, supporting a wide range of conservation tasks both on land and at sea. Please note that a large component of this role is fieldwork-based, including evening and weekend work.

The volunteer will assist with research, conservation, and public awareness work at various Natura 2000 seabird colony sites and at the BirdLife Malta office. Duties include:

  • Monitoring seabird colonies: ringing and taking measurements (under local licence), nest monitoring, call registrations at night and colony searches (often involving rope access and abseiling cliffs, even at night)
  • Conducting sea surveys of seabird colonies by boat and kayak, including night work
  • Assisting with outreach and questionnaires with fishermen
  • Supporting predator management (biosecurity and rat control)
  • Engaging with boat users to raise awareness and support biosecurity efforts
  • Participating in public awareness activities on seabird conservation, including events, talks, and outreach at colony sites
  • Inputting, processing and analysing collected data (Excel, ArcGIS, R)
  • Assisting in report preparation
  • Supporting the update of media content on BirdLife Malta’s website, newsletters, blogs and social media
  • Helping organise stakeholder meetings, events, and workshops

Full details on the post can be found here.

Interested candidates should send a filled-in application form to [email protected] with the subject “Application for ESC Seabird Conservation Assistant” by Monday 3rd November 2025.

Click on the respective tabs for details. For other volunteering opportunities visit the volunteering page.
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