Fishery Assessment Manager

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. 

Position Overview: 

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 benefits of MSC fishery certification.  The position has significant opportunities for independence and teamwork plus collaboration with leading fishery scientists around the globe as part of special project involvement. 

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.

Due to the relocation of an existing staff member, MSC is recruiting one additional Fishery Assessment Manager at this time (see organogram in Job Description for full team structure).

Qualifications: 

If you have experience with fisheries stock or sustainability assessments, or the implementation/evaluation of policies or projects related to fisheries science, research conservation or management, 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 will be required to have at least 3-5 years of relevant professional experience with stock or fishery sustainability assessments, research, management or policy development.  For detailed information on the roles and requirements of the job, please refer to the job specification for this position, available at MSC.

Compensation: £TBC pa, depending on experience

To Apply:

Please email the following material to Louisa Sherry:

• A cover letter outlining how your skills, experience and knowledge directly address the roles, responsibilities, and requirements detailed in the respective job specification (see web link above), which constitute the position selection criteria.
• A copy of your current CV.

Please include in your cover letter your current salary and the media (website, advertisement, newsletter etc) in which you first became aware of this vacancy.  The subject of your email should read: Fishery Assessment Manager Application.

While email is the preferred application route, alternatively you may send or FAX a hard copy of your application to MSC's London office, to:

Louisa Sherry (FAM recruitment)
Marine Stewardship Council
6-20 Elizabeth Street
SW1W 9RB
United Kingdom  

NOTE:  Applications must be received by the closing date/time of 09.00 Greenwich Mean Time, 22 July 2010.

Please also note: 

• Interviews for these positions are provisionally scheduled for 28 July 2010 during UK business hours via telephone, video conference or face-to-face. Second interviews will be conducted if necessary.
• Only successful candidates will be contacted.