Apply by January 31: North Atlantic Murre Harvest Coordinator

Duration

Mid-late February 2025-March 2027

Qualifications

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)

Coordinator Tasks

Project Administration and Management

• Work with project leads and range states to develop project approach, budget, milestones, timelines. Follow/track implementation of the project (nationally/internationally), build momentum amongst range states, support project leads.
• Identify, establish and share appropriate information management system for project materials (meeting notes, documents for review, final documents, participant lists, etc.). Support the development of data sharing protocols. NB: Coordinator can make use of CAFF information management systems to arrange calls and manage files
• Organize regular (e.g. monthly/bimonthly) project coordination calls (identify dates, send meeting invites), ensure meeting notes are recorded, and Records of Decision are circulated, follow-up on meeting action items and sending reminders
• Support CAFF in reporting processes (i.e., to the CAFF Circumpolar Seabird Expert Group (CBird) and to funders)

Communications

Stakeholder and rightsholder engagement scoping:

• Work with representatives from the range states to research, identify, and document key stakeholder and rightsholders within each country, and document the harvest management frameworks within each range state to understand and share information on national processes.
• Work with range state representatives to scope international stakeholders and rightsholders and provide advice for initial approaches and opportunities to meaningfully engage international partners in the initial phases of the project. Share understanding of range state national processes with international stakeholders and rightsholders. Provide advice to range states from international scoping efforts.
• Deliverable: a document that outlines the harvest management framework within each range state, a project approach that details milestones and timelines for the duration of the project and advice on range state and international processes for stakeholders and rightsholders engagement.

Stakeholder and rightsholder engagement planning and implementation:

• Identify the need for common communication tools (e.g. PowerPoint presentations) to support domestic processes in cooperation with range states, creating efficiencies.
• Lead/implement efforts (approach and tools) to engage international stakeholders and rightsholders. Engagement tools may include but not limited to: meetings, workshops, communications products, etc.

Communications product development:

• Develop materials to support engagement with stakeholders and rightsholders throughout the project.
• Support project leads in communications for reporting, such as developing presentations and other outreach materials, reports for meetings and to attend and present the project at workshops and other venues as needed.

Workshop organization

• Work with range states to identify the need for and organize international workshop(s) as appropriate.

Fundraising

• Contribute to fundraising efforts and activities, e.g., identifying sources, preparing documents, liaising with project leads, etc.

Approximate work effort intensity over project duration

Please note these are approximate period of intensity forecasted for the duration of the project according to major tasks. Low: light intensity, approximately up to 10 hours/month; Medium: medium periods of intensity, approximately 11-39 hours/month; High: higher periods of intensity, approximately 40+ hours/month.