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IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: Our distinctive approach to environmental protection emphasizes science, economics, law, and public policy to reach well-crafted, durable solutions. We build teams of scientists, lawyers, economists, and other professionals to promote practical and equitable solutions. Our staff work in the full range of environmental arenas (air, water, climate, soil, toxins, forestry, and wildlife) to promote outcomes founded on science, sound public policy, and the use of market mechanisms where appropriate.
Main Focus: The Senior Conservation Manager – Gulf of Mexico (Gulf Manager) will manage catch share projects in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) to include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and the west coast of Florida. This position will report directly to the Gulf and Southeast Region Oceans Program Director. The Gulf Manager will be responsible for the oversight and coordination of regional staff, consisting of both commercial and recreational project coordinators, and manage a team of consultants, as necessary, to ensure the Gulf and Southeast Region’s goals and objectives are met.
The Gulf Manager will work with other team members to coordinate the program’s mission, including meeting and communicating with federal and state officials, fisheries managers, scientists, fisheries administrators, regional fisheries management council members and staff, other elected officials and the media. The Gulf Manager will also work closely with all other marine user groups and stakeholders, NGOs, and any other interested parties to effectively and efficiently coordinate the implementation of commercial and recreational catch shares in the Gulf.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement broad strategies for the successful adaptation of commercial and recreational catch share programs and management reform in the Gulf.
Oversee and implement specific tactics which will bring these strategies to fruition.
- Direct human resources and fiscal assets
- Develop external partnerships
- Conduct on-the-ground- assessments to identify and develop key fishermen and stakeholder supporters
- Effectively leverage key fishermen and other stakeholders’ voices with council members, commission members, state and federal agencies executives and other key decision makers
- Participate in and/or oversee community outreach efforts to ensure successful plan implementation
- Coordinate and interact with news media and use outreach materials as needed to promote and publicize projects
- Serve on federal and state advisory panels and committees key to advancing catch shares work in the Gulf
Build capacity in fishermen so that they can foster catch share programs in the Gulf.
- Hold workshops to facilitate leadership, outreach, media and communications training
- Identify, train, and organize key fishermen and stakeholder supporters who will: write/sign op-eds and other media materials, reach out to state and federal congressional staff, and conduct congressional site visits
- Conduct fishermen exchanges and other targeted activities to build support for catch shares nationally
Direct research and analysis to identify solutions to project goals, analyzing information from a variety of internal and external sources.
- Identify, design, and implement entrepreneurial projects which will consolidate the fleet through re-investment opportunities such as loan programs, community trusts, coops, and other market-based incentives
- Supervise outside consultants on the development of fisheries economic and business studies, market-based catch share studies, and scientific projects needed to implement catch shares programs in the Gulf
Coordinate with National Policy team as required by the Gulf and Southeast Region Director.
Engage in fundraising support activities and collaborate on proposals and reports required by grantors or other requesting parties.
Undertake and complete special projects as assigned by the Regional Directors.
Requirements include but are not limited to:
- Graduate degree or, equivalent professional experience, in science, policy, economics, or law, in areas related to environmental or marine resources policy, aquatic sciences, environmental sciences or related fields.
- Minimum of five years of work experience in the field of fisheries.
- Strong understanding of state and federal policy making and political processes.
- Understanding of business, environmental, financial, scientific and other issues related to creating and maintaining sustainable fisheries.
- Demonstrable people and project management skills.
- Demonstrable analytic skills and ability to perform rigorous analysis in support of highly visible work.
- Demonstrable written and oral communication skills.
- Negotiation skills.
- Ability to garner consensus between disparate groups with conflicting priorities.
- Ability to recognize and build on market and strategic opportunities for progress.
- Capable of working with a variety of concerned parties, including government agencies, grassroots organizations and private firms, within strategic coalitions.
- A self-starter with the ability to think strategically and the initiative to work in a small regional office while effectively functioning as part of a larger program team
Start Date: No later than January 1, 2013
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