Details about the position:
The roughly 50% position runs from mid-late February 2025 to March 2027 and will have different periods of intensity throughout. You will work remotely and have support from the CAFF International Secretariat during your term of employment.
You will convene, guide and track efforts of an international team of seabird researchers from Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Norway as they develop a coordinated harvest management strategy for thick-billed murres with country, stakeholder and rightsholder collaboration.
More information about the tasks and time here.
Details about the project:
This project aims to develop a coordinated harvest management strategy for thick-billed murres among the countries Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Norway with stakeholder and rightsholder collaboration. The goal is to sustain the breeding range and population size of thick‐billed murres within each breeding area and to optimize sustainable hunting opportunities.
The successful applicant:
- is passionate about and has experience bringing diverse teams of people together and keeping them on track to achieve collective goals
- realizes the importance of building consensus and securing support and processes for collaboration with stakeholders and rights holders
- understands the importance of communications materials and has experience developing materials for targeted audiences
- is interested in the science-policy interface and international environmental cooperation
- has a flexible schedule and willingness to work in a time zone suitable for range state engagement (Eastern Standard Time to Central European Time)
- is a highly motivated self-starter who can work with limited supervision
- remains neutral on political aspects of harvest management
Beneficial to the applicant:
- additional language skills of relevance in the range states (French, Inuktitut, Kalaallisut, Icelandic, Norwegian)
- familiarity with international environmental cooperation, the contexts of wildlife management in the range states, and/or subject matter expertise (thick-billed murre)