“The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is looking for an Operations Manager to provide essential administrative and practical support for our Antarctic programme.”

With this job posting, the British government is essentially looking for a postman – secretary – keeper of… penguins for its isolated research base on the island Goudierin which it is located the southernmost business post office in the world.

Deserted, isolated Goudier Island is located in the Palmer Archipelago, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, supposedly across from Tierra del Fuego – the tip of South America.

On the island – which is one of Antarctica’s main tourist attractions as a nature museum – is the famous Penguin Post Office, aged 80, which is managed by the UK-based Antarctic Heritage Fund.

UKAHT is a UK charity, part of the Antarctic Heritage Trust coalition, to protect the environment and political heritage in Antarctica – so the worker there will be paid by the UK government.

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The… lucky person to be selected for the Penguin Post Office job will have to provide ‘secretarial and administrative support to UK research teams and missions, but also to ‘provide memorable experiences for visitors to our sites’according to the ad.

In general, the interested party should know a) that he will stay alone on the rocky islet and b) that it will be the man for all jobs: secretary of missions, guardian of the island (and the penguins) and tour guide for tourists.

Special degrees and knowledge are not fooled as the institution will undertake their training.

Salary: 26,500 pounds (30,000 euros)
Contract 12 months old
Work 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Leave-Holidays 25 days a year.

Applications to date….