Location: Dakar, Senegal
Closing date for applications: January 6, 2025
Contract status: Regional post, full-time
Start date: February 3, 2025
Contract duration: Permanent
Remuneration: Between 20,296,316 to 37,235,620 FCFA gross annually.
We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities
Blue Ventures is a marine conservation agency that places human beings first. We help coastal fishers in far off and rural groups to rebuild fisheries, repair ocean existence and construct lasting pathways to prosperity. Our paintings started out many years in the past in Madagascar`s far off coastal groups and is developing globally.
Across a dozen countries, we`re partnering with conventional fishers and network businesses to design, scale, strengthen, and preserve fisheries control and conservation on the network level. We deliver companions collectively in networks to propose for reform and percentage equipment and pleasant practices to help fishing groups worldwide.
Summary job description
Our Partner Network crew is accountable for the scoping, selection, courting constructing, and ongoing stewardship of firms operating immediately with fishing groups that accomplice with Blue Ventures globally. Partnership is on the center of Blue Ventures` method to are trying to find out and assist network-targeted firms with the aid of using offering investment and technical help which could catalyse, expand, and preserve companions` paintings in setting up network-primarily based totally fisheries control and regionally controlled marine areas.
We are presently recruiting a Head of the Partnership Network to guide the strategic improvement and growth of our Partner Network withinside the West Africa Region. The Head of Partnership Network West Africa is vital in advancing the organisation`s mission, increasing its impact and contributing to effect thru powerful courting constructing throughout the vicinity. This function entails main and coping with a crew of Partnership Coordinators to shape and put in force partnership boom strategies, nurture relationships, foster collaboration and learning, and make sure the sustained fulfillment of the partnership community throughout the vicinity and its hyperlink to the worldwide network of exercise supported with the aid of using Blue Ventures.
Reporting to the Director, Partnership Network, and the West Africa Regional Director, that is a full-time function primarily based totally in Blue Ventures` workplaces in Dakar, Senegal, with normal tour throughout the West Africa vicinity and globally to paintings intently with colleagues, companions and groups and different stakeholders.
This job requires extensive travel, including to remote locations that may be weather—and tide-dependent and working across multiple time zones. Therefore, flexibility and adaptability will be key to success in this role.
The successful candidate will be a motivated, proactive, highly organised individual with excellent communication and relationship-building skills. Excellent knowledge of a human rights-based approach to community-based management and conservation, especially in small-scale fisheries and coastal habitat protection, is essential. A demonstrated track record of establishing, maintaining and managing multiple, long-term partnerships with community-based organisations, including review, guidance and support for projects delivered by partners, as well as exceptional written and verbal communication, mediation, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills.
We are looking for an individual who is open to new ideas, embraces innovation, and demonstrates experience building effective relationships for long-term partnerships in conservation and small-scale fisheries development.
You will thrive in collegiate and ambitious environments and be able to demonstrate experience working independently and with a team to solve complex problems in challenging situations.
