Fisheries Outreach Officer, Baltic

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) works to safeguard the world’s seafood supply by promoting the best environmental choice, and is recognised internationally as a groundbreaking and credible solution to the serious environmental problem of overfishing.

The Fisheries Outreach Officer (FOO) will report to the Manager Baltic and will help to maintain and increase the support for the MSC programme across a broad range of interest groups in the Baltic region’s fisheries arena. The FOO does this by promoting the MSC concept and certification programme to potential clients and fisheries stakeholders in the Baltic region and acting as the principal point of contact for these. Essentially, the FOO shall encourage fisheries to move ahead within the programme and support those fishery clients who are actively engaged within the MSC’s fishery pre-assessment, full-assessment or post-certification processes.

Outreach activities will involve research and analysis to understand and prioritise target fisheries, making presentations, relationship building and building support and engagement amongst potential partners and interest groups. Ultimately the post strives to deepen MSC’s understanding of the fishery and related sectors and through outreach and active engagement, to increase the purchasing opportunities for consumers by achieving wider availability of MSC certified products in the Baltic region.

Job description

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Application process

Please send resume and cover letter electronically to camiel.derichs@msc.org. No phone calls please.

Application deadline: September 24th, 2010 by 17.00 EST. 

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