MSC Fishery Assessment Manager

Salary: circa £35,000 per annum
Location: MSC Head Office, London
Working languages: English
Deadline for applications: 4 November 2011

Introduction

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 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.

Required skills

The MSC is specifically seeking skills in Pacific salmon fisheries assessment and management to support the growth of the programme in this area; or prior experience as an MSC assessment team member.

Candidates will be required to have significant 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.