European Nature Conservation Officer

05-01-2012

1          Introduction

BirdLife Europe is the European Division of BirdLife International, and is one of the six BirdLife regional offices around the world. It is composed of an international team of permanent staff working on conservation, capacity building, policy, management, finance, fundraising, advocacy, science, communication, marketing and administration. Stichting BirdLife Europe supports the European and Central Asia Partnership of BirdLife International, which consists of 45 independent, grassroots Civil Society Organisations, governed by a democratic programme.

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of autonomous, national non-governmental conservation organisations, with a large grassroots membership, in 117 countries and territories. BirdLife works together as a Partnership to conserve wild birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, by working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife is the global authority on the status of bird species, has unparalleled technical expertise in bird and biodiversity assessment, and provides a global outreach through its national Partners and decentralised Secretariat. 

  2    OVERALL PURPOSE OF JOB

The European Nature Conservation Officer supports the BirdLife European and Central Asian Partnership in defining, prioritising, agreeing and implementing a shared and owned regional and national sites and species conservation programme that realistically addresses the relevant objectives and priorities of the BirdLife strategy.

3.1           Main tasks

1.   To help develop conservation action funding proposals Important Bird Areas, Birds and Powerlines,  Illegal Bird Killing, and Migratory birds or other conservation priorities decided by the BirdLife European and Central Asian partners..

2.   To assist Partners in the development of IBA caretaker networks to promote local action for IBA monitoring and conservation as well as in the development of management plans for IBAs, in line with the BirdLife position on Management Plans for Natura 2000.

3. To support and where appropriate coordinate partnership action for the region's globally threatened species including the development and implementation of species action plans, and the building of linkages with other regions where action for these species is required beyond Europe and Central Asia.

4. To support and chere appropriae lead the development of flyeway-scale projects to conserve sites and habitats important for migratory species and promote collaboration with the partnership in the Middle East and Africa regions.

5.   To facilitate the exchange of information and best practice and ensure effective communication with and between European and Central Asian Partners on site and species conservation know-how, relevant to the workplan.

6.   To contribute to the development and implementation of BirdLife’s EU policy and advocacy work.

3.2           Other tasks

1.     To support the EU Nature Policy Officer in species and sites casework within and outside the EU.

2.     To assist in the development of appropriate funding proposals, including BirdLife Europe core grant.

3.     To provide input into the development of the BirdLife European Programme and to review its implementation as appropriate.

4.     To support appropriate training and capacity building programme for Partners on conservation action, in collaboration with other members of the European team.

5.     To help better promote the core of BirdLife European and Central Asian partners’ conservation work

4          Qualifications required: 

PLEASE, READ THIS CAREFULLY: Before submitting your application take time to score your qualifications 
for this job. Remember to be honest, this is the best way to increase your chances to get the job. You need 
to score each required qualification from 0 to 3: 0 = I do not have this qualification, 2 = good, 3 = very good.
Then sum up the scores to obtain the total.

Before submitting your application, please answer to the following questions and you will know wether you
are qualified enough to apply to this job (or click here to download the form): 

If you are qualified to submit your application, please attach the next table with your scores to the cover letter.

Please consider that any application sent without individual and total scores or with
any 0 or 1 in qualifications from 1 to 16 or with a total score of less than 70 will be automatically discarded.

5          How to apply:

Please submit the qualification scorecard, a full CV and a comprehensive cover letter (both in english) setting out your reasons for applying for the post and outlining the qualifications experience knowledge and skills that feel you can bring to the role to: europe@birdlife.org 

Closing date: 23rd January 2012 at midnight. Please consider that applications received after the date will be automatically discarded.   

6          Short listing and interviews:

The Short listing is based on scorecard, CV and cover letter. Successful candidates will be asked to attend face to face interviews and perform an additional test.

Please note that due to the large number of expected applications, only successful candidates will be contacted.

Interview day: 22nd or 23rd February 2012 (9am - 3pm), in Brussels.