Manager, Fisheries Organizational and Institutional Development at RARE

Bogor, Indonesia

Full-Time 

 

Are you ready to become part of an innovative movement to transform near-shore fisheries on a global level? Rare is a fast-growing $24 million international conservation organization already making strides towards promoting widespread sustainable fishing practices in multiple countries.  We are ready to launch Fish Forever (www.fishforever.org) our first global initiative in Partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

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.

  

Program Overview

  

 Rare’s Indonesia program, based in Bogor, Indonesia is pursuing ambitious, evidence based countrywide near shore fisheries strategies that combine No-Take-Zones and rights-based fishery zones (TURF – Reserves/Special Fisheries Management Zones). Our goal is to ensure greater community ownership and benefits that encourage long-term sustainable marine resource management along with the protection of important biodiversity.  This program builds on Rare’s significant experience and success through its behavior change campaigns and technical assistance called Pride Campaigns. 

  

Position Overview

The Manager, Fisheries Organizational and Institutional Development will lead all implementation activities relative to organizational and institutional development at Rare’s prototype and campaign sites in Indonesia. S/he will be responsible for:

• Community engagement and participation processes: designing engagement strategy with communities, key stakeholders to facilitate behavior change for improvement of fishery and for conservation of marine resources.
• Community institution capacity building: S/he will work closely local implementing partners’ staff in organizing and enhancing the management of local fisheries associations and or cooperatives at the TURF – Reserve Sites, and ensure that fishers and communities are consulted in all appropriate policies and plans relative to the program implementation.  

The Manager will provide leadership to ensure the smooth execution of the organizational and institutional development components of the campaign during the prototype and implementation phases of the program. The successful candidate will have the following: 

• At least 5 years’ experience in the formation and strengthening of community based organizations, fisheries associations and or cooperatives;
• Demonstrated success in strengthening marine protected area /fisheries governance and or coastal resource management, comfort and expertise in coordinating with the district government offices, comfort in working with multi stakeholders;
• Demonstrate understanding on the community engagement strategies, community dynamics analysis; and familiarity with social intervention tools, concept and strategies
• A background in coaching and mentoring staff and delivering targeted in-house training to improve capacity for marine theme development along with the ability to perform language and cultural translation revisions to ensure Pride campaign materials are appropriate and effective;
• Ability and willingness to travel inside the country under demanding conditions and or occasional travel abroad (when necessary); 
• The ability to work with minimal supervision independently and as part of a team;
• A bachelor’s degree preferably in Cooperative Development, Social Work, Environmental Science, Fisheries, and or other related field; and
• Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English languages.

Rare is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability. 

To apply, please go to Rare - Manager, Fisheries Organizational and Institutional Development