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Position Title: Aquaculture Coordinator

Location: Andavadoaka, Madagascar**

Closing date for applications: 1 October 2018

Start date: 1 November 2018

Contract duration: Fixed-term 2-year contract

Remuneration: Competitive salary based on experience

Organisation Overview

Blue Ventures is an award-winning marine conservation organisation working to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities. We’re committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and where there is a fundamental unmet need to support human development. For the past decade, Blue Ventures has been working alongside coastal communities in the South West of Madagascar to help rebuild small-scale tropical fisheries and bring communities out of poverty with innovative business and holistic conservation models.

Summary Job Description

We are looking for an experienced manager to join BV’s dynamic and innovative community aquaculture programme in southwest Madagascar. The successful applicant will be working with an amazing diversity of people and communities to deliver a real and tangible positive difference to the lives of chronically poor coastal coastal community by tackling local development needs through a rights-based approach, as well as directly contributing to the environmental sustainability of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) and Locally Marine Managed Areas (LMMA’s) in which we work.

The Aquaculture CoordinatorSouthwest (ACSW) is a crucial role within BV Aquaculture Team with the responsibility of overseeing the ongoing development of two main aquaculture export products, the seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii and the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra during a phase of rapid expansion of BV’s aquaculture programme in the regions of Atsimo Andrefana and Menabe.

The ACSW will oversee operations, and maintain effective communications with project partners and the wider BV team, ensuring our aquaculture projects in the southwest region, the heart of BV operations in Madagascar, are delivered to a high standard. The successful candidate will be comfortable managing a diverse multi-disciplinary team in a challenging operational environment and will thrive in a dynamic, collegial atmosphere.

Application Process

Applicants should apply online, using the form below, by 1st October 2018.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and first-round interviews may be conducted with short-listed candidates before the application deadline. All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date.

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We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people.

Our story started over a decade ago, surveying coral reefs in the Mozambique channel. Vezo communities in southern Madagascar were concerned about the decline of their fisheries, so we supported one village to experiment with closing off a small section of their octopus gleaning area for a few months, to see whether this might boost productivity.When the closure was re-opened, communities experienced a huge increase in octopus landings and fisher incomes. As news of this remarkable fishery boom spread, neighbouring communities started copying this approach. Crucially, this sparked interest in more ambitious coastal management efforts, leading to the creation of the country’s first Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) governed by a small network of fishing villages.Since then, this temporary fishery closure model has gone viral along thousands of kilometres of Madagascar’s coastline, spawning a grassroots marine conservation revolution with 64 more LMMAs established to date. Today, 11% of the island’s seabed is managed by communities, for communities.Our work is about much more than octopus. These experiences have guided our journey searching for new approaches to demonstrate that marine conservation can be in everyone’s interest, and that taking less from our ocean can give us much much more.

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0 USD Andavadoaka, Madagascar CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Blue Ventures

Position Title: Aquaculture Coordinator

Location: Andavadoaka, Madagascar**

Closing date for applications: 1 October 2018

Start date: 1 November 2018

Contract duration: Fixed-term 2-year contract

Remuneration: Competitive salary based on experience

Organisation Overview

Blue Ventures is an award-winning marine conservation organisation working to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities. We’re committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. We work in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and where there is a fundamental unmet need to support human development. For the past decade, Blue Ventures has been working alongside coastal communities in the South West of Madagascar to help rebuild small-scale tropical fisheries and bring communities out of poverty with innovative business and holistic conservation models.

Summary Job Description

We are looking for an experienced manager to join BV’s dynamic and innovative community aquaculture programme in southwest Madagascar. The successful applicant will be working with an amazing diversity of people and communities to deliver a real and tangible positive difference to the lives of chronically poor coastal coastal community by tackling local development needs through a rights-based approach, as well as directly contributing to the environmental sustainability of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) and Locally Marine Managed Areas (LMMA’s) in which we work.

The Aquaculture CoordinatorSouthwest (ACSW) is a crucial role within BV Aquaculture Team with the responsibility of overseeing the ongoing development of two main aquaculture export products, the seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii and the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra during a phase of rapid expansion of BV’s aquaculture programme in the regions of Atsimo Andrefana and Menabe.

The ACSW will oversee operations, and maintain effective communications with project partners and the wider BV team, ensuring our aquaculture projects in the southwest region, the heart of BV operations in Madagascar, are delivered to a high standard. The successful candidate will be comfortable managing a diverse multi-disciplinary team in a challenging operational environment and will thrive in a dynamic, collegial atmosphere.

Application Process

Applicants should apply online, using the form below, by 1st October 2018.

Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and first-round interviews may be conducted with short-listed candidates before the application deadline. All shortlisted candidates will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date.

2018-10-01

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