Senior Fisheries Specialist

The Senior Fisheries Specialist will, together with a team of World Bank staff from the Agricultural and Rural Development, Environment and Legal Departments and other World Bank institutions, including the International Finance Corporation, work on fisheries (including aquaculture) and associated natural resource governance issues. The position will be located at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC but will involve extensive and at times prolonged travel in client countries.

The tasks of the Senior Fisheries Specialist will include:

a) Working with the World Bank’s country teams and the partners in the Global Partnership for Fisheries (PROFISH), to substantially contribute to the development and implementation of the World Bank’s strategic approach to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture including the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture;
 
b) Working with country teams and within the established World Bank processes of priority setting (e.g., Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, Country Assistance Strategies, Country Environment Strategies, international partnerships), to develop initiatives for substantial improvement of the sustainability and productivity of capture fisheries and aquaculture in terms of specified environmental, economic and social goals and governance processes with particular attention to countries in sub-Saharan Africa;

c) Leading, or supporting teams in the preparation of sector strategies and investment proposals for assisting World Bank client countries to meet their fisheries targets, and in particular to improve the sustainable management and development of small scale fisheries; to promote sustainable aquaculture, to create institutions, management structures and instruments to achieve sustainable, pro-poor fisheries economies;

d) Leading or participating in multi-disciplinary teams supporting developing countries with the identification of the key objectives, major components, and critical constraints in restructuring the commercial and small-scale fisheries sectors and providing the major elements of sector strategies, investment plans and reform pathways that would improve the sustainability of fisheries resource use and create increased net economic benefits from fisheries, while giving due regard to the social and political challenges and timescales involved in fisheries reform;

e) Analyzing key elements of fisheries sector governance and performance at country, regional, or global level with a view to identifying new management tools, incentives and processes to promote and execute reforms and adjustments, and the processes by which reforms and institutional changes might be agreed, financed, introduced and monitored both through World Bank operations and other means;

f) Identifying and building upon linkages and synergies between the fisheries sector and other sectors and World Bank initiatives, including but not limited to: adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, food security and nutrition, sustainable trade and subsidies, fiscal reform, legal empowerment of the poor, bio-diversity, coastal zone and water basin management and environmental and social safeguards;

g) Promoting, as part of the focal point for the Global Partnership on Fisheries (PROFISH) closer coordination of the international agencies, such as FAO, bilateral donors, NGOs and key fisheries and oceans institutions at the global level to create greater awareness of and political willingness for actions to reform and sustain fisheries;

h) Designing, managing and accounting for tasks, projects or programs structured to achieve the aims described above; and

i) Other related tasks as may be specified by management..