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The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) works to safeguard the world’s seafood supply by promoting the best environmental choice in seafood through the use of its logo. We celebrate, promote and add value to sustainable fisheries.
Through the leadership of our partners, we help create market incentives to encourage other fisheries to improve the way they fish the oceans.
Over 300 fisheries around the world, landing 12 % of the annual global harvest, are now engaged at some stage of the MSC’s independent assessment process. MSC certified and labelled seafood products are now available in around 100 countries.
Information on the role
Seize this great opportunity to join a forward thinking and rapidly growing organisation and make a positive impact on global fisheries conservation. Lend your fisheries expertise to MSC’s mission of helping transform global fisheries through its leading international certification and eco-labelling programme for well-managed and sustainable fisheries – a programme distinguished by high scientific standards, independence, transparency, stakeholder engagement and comprehensive consistency with FAO guidelines.
MSC’s Fishery Assessment Managers play essential roles in achieving the MSC mission by carefully reviewing fishery assessments conducted around the world by independent, third party evaluation teams. By this review process, the fisheries team contributes to the quality, consistency and credibility of fishery certification decisions. Team members are also involved in managing special projects to help evaluate and improve the performance and rigour of MSC fishery certification. The position has significant opportunities for independence and teamwork, collaboration with leading fishery scientists around the globe as part of special project involvement and scientific research associated with the development of new MSC policy.
The variety of fisheries and management challenges, along with the diversity of people involved, make these posts extremely interesting and intellectually stimulating in very unique ways.
At this time, the MSC is seeking maternity leave cover for a 12-month period. The successful applicant can be based in London, or the US regional offices in Seattle or Washington DC. We are looking specifically for candidates with experience in stock assessment, fisheries impacts on the marine environment and/or fisheries management.
If you have such experience, we want to hear from you. Your past successes include working with diverse stakeholders, demonstrating strong analysis skills and systematic problem solving, displaying sound judgement and decision-making, and advancing solutions to fisheries sustainability issues. Along with excellent written and oral communication skills, you are well-organised, highly productive, people centred and outcome focused.
Candidates are required to have at least 3-5 years of relevant professional experience with stock or fishery sustainability assessments, research, and management or policy development.
Fishery Assessment Manager- Job Description — PDF document, 257 kB
Application Process
To apply for the post, please send a cover letter outlining how your skills, experience and knowledge directly address the roles, responsibilities, and requirements detailed in the respective job specification (see link above ), which constitute the position selection criteria and copy of your current CV (no photos) in English in strict confidence BY EMAIL ONLY to recruitment@msc.org
Please ensure that they are sent as Word or PDF documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your name CV”. Please put "Fishery Assessment Manager ( Maternity Cover )” in the email subject line.
Closing Date/time: 09:00 BST, 2 June 2016.
Interview date: Interviews are provisionally scheduled for 6 June 2016 between 9:00am – 5:00 pm (BST).
Short-listed candidates may be requested to undertake a short exercise or prepare a short presentation, to be discussed at the interview.
Listing posted 12 May 2016.
