Bogor, Indonesia
Full-Time
Fish
Forever’s goal is to empower the world’s most vulnerable coastal
communities to sustainably manage their fisheries and simultaneously
strengthen local fisheries, increase food security, and protect nature.
The combination of fisher empowerment, capacity building and community
mobilization will help ensure that coastal fisheries are ecologically
and economically sustainable for generations to come, building the
momentum for wide scale adoption across the globe. Fish Forever aims to
implement managed access (or commonly known as TURF) and reserve, and
improve fishery management in our sites. Currently Rare implements Fish
Forever through a partnership with implementing partners in a cohort of
twelve sites and three prototype (learning) sites. Fish Forever program
includes campaigning for behavior change, technical support for removing
barrier to behavior change, monitoring and evaluation, policy works,
and link to market.
Position Overview
In
order to implement the Fish Forever, which currently consists of two
majors initiatives mentioned above, Rare is seeking a qualified Fishery
Specialist (FS). The FS will be supervised and report to the Director of
Fisheries Technical Division. The Fishery Specialist (FS) will be
responsible for providing recommendation of TURF (managed access)
design, reserve area location, protected target species and fishery
resources management improvement. The FS will collaborate with the
Marine Measure Manager in providing overall technical approach for the
TURF-Reserve implementation. FS will work with local government officers
and local communities in promoting improvement in fishing techniques
and practices, and fisheries management improvement, including guidance
on managing access for communities. As Rare works with and through
partners, the FS will also be required to train technical people of our
partners to ensure capacity development take place. The trainings take
place in classroom in Bogor or directly at fields.
Essential Function:
The Fishery Specialist essential function is to
- Manage and be responsible for fishing techniques and fisheries resource management
- Provide day-to-day consultation and facilitation to Fish Forever sites
- In collaboration Marine Measure Manager, EDF, other national technical partner and under supervision of the Technical Fishery Director FS will design managed access/TURF in the partners’ sites, as well as the fishery management plan
- Designing, tailoring and introducing TURF-Reserve fishery management plan to communities and local government.
- Liaising with technical partners (EDF, UCSB) and national technical partners, with implementing partners
- Managing consultants to support the implementation of the program
- Ensuring that the fishery management plan and managed access are socially acceptable, biologically correct, and effective in achieving social and conservation goals.
- Supporting site team (implementing partners) through support visits and monitoring visits
- Training technical staff of the partners
- Providing classroom training for technical coordinator from each site
- Providing on-site training, coaching and mentoring when needed
- Supporting training team and Technical Director in designing training module/curriculum for classroom training.
- Reporting and coordination with other team (15%)
- Supporting Technical Director to liaise with in country technical partner (EDF and other partners)
- Coordinating with other team in country and globally to ensure alignment of the program
- Supporting Pride Program Manager in managing implementing partner at site to achieve the milestone in technical parts.
- Prepare and submit quarterly progress reports as required by the Technical Director.
- Prepare a detailed annual work plan for the fisheries technical support to FF program, in close consultation with the Technical Director
- Participate in the preparation of TORs for future initiatives or activities
- Participate and organize interviews for selection of candidates for consultants and sub-contractors.
Qualifications, Skills & Knowledge Requirements:
- Education and/or experience equivalent to a Bachelors degree (Master’s Degree preferable) in the field of capture fisheries, fishing techniques and management, fish biology, coastal resource management or related subject
- Strong understanding of fishery management, coastal community organizing, integrated coastal zone management, fisheries policy and market/supply chain of fishery products.
- 10 years or more of work experience in fishing industry or sustainable fishery management
- Capability to provide facilitation fishers/communities, government, or NGOs.
- Strong experience in quantitative and qualitative fisheries data collection, data analysis using mathematical model and data management (CPUE, Life Cycle, Cost-Benefit Ratio, etc).
- Solid understanding of basic to intermediate statistical analysis
- Proven success in project planning, time-management and multi-tasking.
- Proven experience in fishing techniques and management improvement works
- Teaching, training, or coaching experience preferable.
- Good track record, relations and fishery networks within Indonesia and South-East Asia preferred
- Proven success in being able to thrive in team environments, having a strong understanding of diversity and other cultures, and having built relationships over long distances
- Fluent English and Bahasa Indonesian language skills – both written and oral
- Willingness to travel based on needs of the position (up to 40%).
- Experienced in using MS Office, databases, graphics, google-earth and other multi-media software
- Believe in working with local people as a fundamental element to conservation success.
- Respect cultural differences and able to meet tight deadlines.
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