Global Head – Community-based Fisheries Management at Blue Ventures

Global Head – Community-based Fisheries Management
Global Head – Community-based Fisheries Management at Blue Ventures September 2024
Job type: Full-time
Location:
Either in one of our global offices (Bristol or London – UK,
Madagascar, Belize, Indonesia, Kenya, Senegal, Timor-Leste), or
home-based within countries where Blue Ventures has administrative
capacity (Mozambique, Tanzania)
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2024
Contract status: Global post, full-time
Start date: As soon as possible

Contract duration: 2 years fixed term (with the possibility of extension thereafter)
Remuneration:
Salaries are gross per annum and will be in line with national salary
grades and experience; circa £54,048 – £72,373 (UK); circa IDR
485,003,837 – IDR 717,805,679 (Indonesia); circa KES 4,852,623 – KES
7,181,882 (Kenya); circa TZS 70,126,672 – TZS 103,787,474 (Tanzania);
circa MZN 3,273,650 – MZN 4,845,001 (Mozambique); circa XOF 20,296,316 –
XOF 30,725,376 (Senegal); circa USD 27,768 – USD 38,846 (Timor-Leste);
circa BZD 73,087 – BZD 94,560 (Belize); circa MGA 63,076,355 – MGA
91,145,332 (net per annum; only applicable in Madagascar).

We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
Blue
Ventures is a marine conservation organization that puts people first.
We support coastal fishers in remote and rural communities to rebuild
fisheries, restore ocean life and build lasting pathways to prosperity.
Our work began two decades ago in Madagascar’s remote coastal
communities and is growing globally.

Across a dozen countries,
we’re partnering with traditional fishers and community organizations to
design, scale, strengthen and sustain fisheries management and
conservation at the community level. We bring partners together in
networks to advocate for reform, and share tools and best practices to
support fishing communities across the globe.

Summary job description
Our
Technical Knowledge team oversees Blue Ventures’ technical pillars
(Secure Rights, Community-Based Fisheries Management, Food Security and
Financial Inclusion) and supports the use of data for decision-making,
providing tools, training, and guidance to partners and Blue Ventures’
staff around the world. This team integrates expertise and deep
practical experience with pragmatism and a desire to enable others to
deliver lasting change, by distilling global best practices and
knowledge into usable tools, appropriate training, and responsive
guidance and support. The team is also responsible for delivering peer
learning exchanges and knowledge-sharing events both online and
face-to-face across the organisation, in addition to overseeing
technical publications.

We are currently recruiting for an
exceptional individual to be part of this global team, leading a
critical pillar of the strategy on Community-Based Fisheries Management.
This individual would oversee the development, refinement, and roll out
of tools and training to support partners working with communities
around the world as they establish community-based fisheries management
and locally managed marine areas.
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These types of tools and materials include:
– Accessible tools and appropriate technologies:
Intuitive
to use and readily available, including software and mobile apps for
data collection and interpretation, simple decision support tools for
assessment, planning, and problem resolution, and community-level
materials for common activities, such as meeting facilitation guides or
choice architecture to help communities decide which fish and fisheries
to focus management attention on.
– Educational resources:
Manuals,
guides, videos, and online materials that provide concise information
and serve as self-learning tools, allowing partners to access and
acquire knowledge at their own pace.
– Knowledge development:
Structured
learning experiences to transfer theory to practice and enhance the
background knowledge and competencies such as workshops or webinars, as
well as development of good practice technical case studies and
publications.
– Skill development:
Specific hands-on training,
mentoring, or peer learning exchange programmes to enhance technical
expertise and the skills that are relevant to the context of each
pillar.

As a Global Head, the position oversees regional and
national colleagues to produce and iteratively improve the technical
support, ensuring globally consistent guidance, while enabling
context-specific differentiation among regions. The ability to work in a
diverse and geographically dispersed team and to liaise and adapt
techniques across different cultures will therefore be essential. As a
Global Head and part of the Technical Knowledge team the position
strives for Blue Ventures’ work to be at the forefront of best practice
in the sector, by learning from partners and practitioners worldwide to
distill learning and experience into usable practical approaches to
address the common barriers to achieving coastal fisheries reform with a
strong believe in placing communities at the center of decision making.

The
Blue Ventures Technical Knowledge team has a unique vantage point,
gained through supporting dozens of partners working with hundreds of
communities across South East Asia, the Western Indian Ocean, West
Africa, and the Caribbean as well as being part of international fora
and members of expert panels. As such our technical team plays a key
role in identifying, collating, sharing, and transferring key insights
and successful approaches, updating information, training, tools, and
guidance around the world, and building a community of practice around
each of the pillar themes.

At the heart of Blue Ventures’ 2030
strategy is an unwavering commitment to empowering communities through
participatory data collection, feedback, and use of fisheries and
ecological data for adaptive management, and playing a leadership role
in our sector to make this the norm. The Global Head – Community-Based
Fisheries Management will have a strong understanding and technical
experience of data-driven adaptive fisheries management in the
small-scale fisheries sector, with proven skills in coaching and team
building skills and effective management capacity in leading a
multi-disciplinary team and working cross-functionally.

Blue
Ventures recognises the key roles that women play in fisheries
management and conservation as fishers, gleaners, processors, sellers
and negotiators and seeks to highlight the important value of their
roles in the fisheries value chain, that are often invisible, so that
they also benefit. An understanding of the challenges faced particularly
by women in fisheries and experience of working in communities to find
some practical solutions desirable for this role. The role will work in
close collaboration with the Technical Knowledge team to support these
goals, which includes working with fisher associations and committees to
increase the participation of women in fisheries management.

The
successful candidate will have a deep understanding of the complex
challenges facing tropical coastal fisheries and the small-scale fishing
communities that depend on them. They will have practical experience of
working with coastal communities in Africa, Asia or Central America,
and partnering with civil society organisations, non-governmental
organisations, government institutions, and other stakeholders to
identify and address fishing issues, placing communities at the heart of
the solution.

The successful candidate will thrive in
environments that are dynamic, fast-paced, collegiate, and ambitious,
will have a proven track record in distilling complexity into easily
interpretable material, able to deliver high-impact written work, and in
communicating effectively with diverse audiences, ranging from fishing
communities, practitioners, academic institutions, governments, and
other technical experts.
The role entails leading an
interdisciplinary and international team, with strong cross-functional
collaboration. The successful candidate will report to Blue Ventures’
Director of Technical Knowledge and will be based in one of our regional
hubs, with regular overseas travel to work with partners and field
teams around the world.

The core technical scope of the role’s portfolio will include:
–
Community-based fisheries management for low-resource, data-limited
fisheries including fish biology, coastal ecology, fisheries science,
governance and participatory management and decision making;
–
Participatory assessment, management and conservation of tropical marine
habitats (integrating scientific and community-based habitat mapping
and monitoring, fisheries data collection and use, marine spatial
ecology and coastal resource governance)
– Following and informing best practice and policy for community based small-scale fisheries management and habitat protection.
How to Apply:
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