WWF Germany , Project Manager - Smart Fishing Initiative

The Smart Fishing Initiative (SFI) is one of 13 WWF Global Initiatives and strives to improve ecosystem health through making large-scale commercial fishing around the world sustainable. It will help generate a new fisheries paradigm that ensures healthy and productive oceans are recovered and improving ocean-sourced food security. 

The key goal of the initiative is:
By 2020, healthy, recovering and resilient marine ecosystems that provide improved food security for the planet and improved livelihoods for dependent communities are achieved through responsible management and trade in four key fishery groups – tuna, whitefish, shrimp and forage fish.

WWF, the global conservation organization, is seeking to recruit for 32 hours/week a

Project Manager (f/m) Smart Fishing Initiative

Major Functions:

The Smart Fishing Initiative’s goal to transform fisheries management necessitates regionally coordinated, precedent setting activities that collectively generate change at a global scale. A reform of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), such as the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), for example, will send a powerful message to push for reform of all RFMOs. Similarly, SFI strategies to reform other RFMO’s, such as those in the Pacific, will push reform of the IOTC. Accordingly, the overarching role of this position is to assume responsibility for the successful planning and execution of the Indian Ocean fisheries strategy. The emphasis herein will be on the Western Indian Ocean region, in support of the Coastal East Africa Marine Strategy (which is an integrated part of the Indian Ocean Tuna Strategy), working closely with the Coastal East Africa / Madagascar & Western Indian Ocean Programme Office (MWIOPO) Marine Team. The position will make a crucial contribution toward delivery of the SFI’s global goals and objectives.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and drive the overall aim of achieving the strategies stated goals and objectives
• Ensure clear project timelines and deliverables are developed and are being met
• Strategically coordinate with relevant staff and WWF entities, especially WWF’s Coastal East Africa and Market Transformation Global initiatives
• Working across the entire WWF Network to build synergies with other programmes
• Ensuring necessary changes to work plans are made where needed and informing donors in a timely manner of any required changes to activities
• Have a clear understanding of budgets to ensure spending targets are met
• Chair regular teleconferences and face-to-face meetings with project staff
• Act as a spokesperson on relevant issues both internally and externally
• Collating and appraising Monitoring and Evaluation information and using this to inform future strategies and quality reporting
• Ensure timely delivery of mid-term and annual reports
• Overseeing the development of communication tools to help internal and external advocacy
• Required qualifications and skills:
• At least 5 years experience in the management of large, complex projects, across different countries, issues and cultures, with the ability to manage the constraint of cost, time, and scope (ideally with a fisheries focus)
• Extensive and demonstrable knowledge of project management tools (e.g. PRINCE 2), to plan, organize, manage, lead, and control resources to achieve specific goals
• Excellent interpersonal skills including advanced experience in presentation and facilitation
• Fluency in English, and French advantageous
• Willingness to travel frequently and internationally
• Adheres to WWF’s values, which are: Knowledgeable, Optimistic, Determined and Engaging.

Location:

Preferably based at WWF-Germany in Hamburg, other options considered.

Duration of contract:

01 January 2013 to 31 December 2016


Interested candidates should submit their application letter and CV in English by e-mail to 
personal@wwf.de till 11 November 2012.