Senior Consultant – Fisheries & Aquaculture

Job Details

As a Senior Consultant, you will contribute to our exciting portfolio of international fisheries and aquaculture projects. You will be expected to generate your own projects and take ownership of their planning and implementation.

Experience of project management is essential, as you will be responsible for overseeing certain projects or programmes. Your role will vary across projects, and on some you will be the project manager, responsible for meeting technical, budgetary and timeline requirements. This includes allocating work to staff, partners and external consultants, providing your own technical and field inputs, and managing that of others.

You will liaise directly with clients and partners without supervision and be trusted to exercise sound judgement, ensuring that any project-related issues are escalated to senior management, when needed. In addition to managing projects, you will also contribute to those led by other team members. This may include delivering field work, conducting analysis, interpreting, and presenting data, and participate in or organising meetings. 

You will also be responsible for writing sections of high-quality technical reports, review and editing other’s work, managing your time effectively, coordinating with others and meeting multiple deadlines.

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

• Postgraduate degree in marine biology, fisheries science or another relevant subject.
• Minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in renewable natural resources management, with a focus on fisheries and aquaculture sector.
• Taking responsibility for the full project cycle, including contractual and budgeting aspects.
• Proven experience in new business development and an established network of relevant contacts, ideally gained in a consultancy environment.
• Experience in managing project teams.
• Excellent written, presentation and quantitative analytic skills, with a track record of producing high quality outputs.
• Broad geographic experience in projects related to fisheries and aquaculture.
• Strong communication skills, both within teams and with clients and project partners. Additional languages would be desirable but not essential.
• Ability to multitask, working on several projects simultaneously, often under tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of fisheries and climate change, ecosystem approach to fisheries management, the blue economy or marine spatial planning would be desirable, but not essential.

Contact Information

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If you are interested, please submit the following to jobs@mrag.co.uk marked for the attention of Dr Robert Wakeford.

• A cover letter outlining how your skills, experience and knowledge directly address the responsibilities and requirements. Please include your current salary and notice period.
• Your CV, including full contact details.
• Referees whom we may contact at a later stage.
• Examples of your writing skills (e.g. published papers, publicly available project outputs).

At a later stage, we may also request:

• Copies of certificates for academic and other qualifications.

Please submit all documents as Word or PDF files with titles like: “Your Name Cover Letter”, “Your Name CV”, “Your Name Writing Skills Example 1,” etc.  The subject of the email should read: Application for Senior Consultant. 

Application closing date

The position will remain open until filled.