Wildlife jobs are rare. Good wildlife jobs — with a respected organisation, meaningful work, and a community you’d actually want to be part of — are rarer still. Here’s one worth knowing about.

Bird Count India, the nationwide citizen science partnership coordinated by the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF), is hiring a Project Coordinator to support and grow bird monitoring and documentation efforts across India. The position is based at NCF’s office in North Bengaluru, with some travel involved.

What the role involves

This is a broad, active role — part coordinator, part communicator, part content creator. Day to day, the work covers coordinating bird counts, workshops, and outreach activities; communicating with birding communities and regional coordinators; planning, writing, and publishing content; developing outreach materials; summarising and visualising bird data; and designing both online and in-person workshops.

If you’re someone who enjoys organising things, working with people, and being around birds — BCI’s words, not ours — this may be exactly the role you’ve been waiting for.

The details

• Organisation: Bird Count India / Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF)
• Location: NCF office, North Bengaluru (with travel; some flexibility possible)
• Duration: 1 year, with a 3-month probation period and possible extension
• Remuneration: ₹35,000–45,000 per month, based on qualifications and experience
• Deadline: 15 April 2026

Applications must be submitted through the online form — do not send your CV by email. Women and candidates from diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. For queries, contact Mittal (Project Manager, Bird Count India) at skimmer@birdcount.in.

🔗 Apply here: birdcount.in/project-coordinator-bird-count-india

About Bird Count India

Bird Count India is a partnership of birding groups and organisations across the country working to encourage birdwatchers to contribute to science and conservation. It works with the global platform eBird to collect and collate birding lists, and has coordinated some of India’s most ambitious bird atlas projects — from Kerala and Mysore to Coimbatore and Pune.