The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS’s) Indonesia Program aims to conserve marine resources vital to the protection and sustainability of a wide range of human activities and livelihoods. Consequently, conservation efforts cannot be separated from the management of fisheries or interaction with coastal communities
WCS Indonesia’s approach is defined by the five core WCS Global components of Protect, Discover, Inspire and Leverage, and Build. This structure was developed as part of WCS 2020 to reflect the importance of combining our scientific research with broader public awareness and direct engagement with decision makers. Success will depend on our ability to leverage the interplay between these themes to create larger policy and protection impacts.
The WCS Indonesia Marine program focuses on the establishment and effective management of MPAs and development of sustainable fisheries, as interlinked strategies to secure and manage Indonesia’s coastal marine resources. WCS is committed to assisting the Government of Indonesia to meet its national and international commitments to MPA establishment and management – including the commitment to achieve 31 million hectares of MPAs by 2030. MPAs benefit both biodiversity and fisheries management by protecting habitats and protecting breeding populations of important marine organisms.
The basis of all of our work is scientific data. Our teams of marine biologists, fisheries scientists, and socioeconomic specialists inform project design with baseline surveys. Regular monitoring of resources informs all subsequent decision making.
The role will oversee WCS Indonesia’s fisheries and marine science initiatives to ensure that our conservation programs are informed by sound data and grounded in the latest scientific principles and engage with international initiatives on fisheries and marine sciences, including socio-economics studies. The WCS Indonesia Marine Program has a firm foundation in coral reef ecological monitoring, and as the program has grown this work has expanded to socio-economic monitoring and fisheries science. The marine program now employs a wide range of scientific techniques ranging from underwater marine surveys, advanced statistics and modeling for fisheries, DNA analysis, spatial analysis, social science and more. The Marine Science Deputy Program Manager will support these efforts directly or indirectly in close coordination with the entire marine team and other science-related units in WCS Indonesia and WCS global.
Position: Deputy Program Manager for Marine Science
Based in: Bogor
Reports to: Marine Cross Cutting Program Manager
For more detailed information about Wildlife Conservation Society – Indonesia Program, the position and how to apply, please visit our website at: Deputy Program Manager for Marine Science > WCS Indonesia
When you are interested on the above position and consider that you possess the necessary qualification, please submit your job application consisting of updated curriculum vitae, expected salary, three professional references and a cover letter explaining your interest towards this work and/or this organization to wcsindonesia@wcs.org
Please fill the “subject” column of the e-mails in this format "Deputy Program Manager for Marine Science _(name of candidate)"
Deadline: February 27, 2020
No correspondence, only short-listed candidates will be notified
