The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. With a century of experience and long-term presence in more than 50 nations, WCS has amassed the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships to ensure that vibrant, wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities. WCS addresses the challenges of the complex inter-relationship between conservation, sustainable development, and human livelihoods; natural resource management and extraction; the wildlife/livestock/ human health interface; and climate change.
In support of this work, we seek a dynamic, conservation-minded professional to build partnerships with European government agencies and legislative bodies on behalf of WCS’s strategic conservation objectives in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The European Policy and Government Relations Director will:
* Shape WCS policy engagement in Europe support of the conservation programs, so as to (a) align policy initiatives and consequent funding opportunities with WCS conservation priorities, and (b) draw upon the expertise and experience within WCS to help identify, formulate, and articulate policy initiatives of the public sector in Europe.
* Building upon WCS’s existing policy expertise in Washington, both in the legislative and agency arenas, help support transatlantic linkages for conservation through (a) the coordination of WCS’s political and advocacy actions, and (b) coordination with WCS high-level agency-focused program development efforts in Europe.
* Support WCS’s policy engagement with multilateral institutions (World Bank, GEF, climate change financing mechanisms, FAO, etc.) related to the conservation of wildlife and wild lands by maintaining relationships with European participants in those processes.
* Within the framework of an annual workplan developed jointly with WCS Europe, represent WCS in European-based policy discussions with governments, multilateral institutions, treaty organizations and conservation organizations.
* Ensure an internally-consistent and mission-focused set of policy interventions in Europe.
To Apply:
http://www.wcs.org/about-us/careers.aspx
In support of this work, we seek a dynamic, conservation-minded professional to build partnerships with European government agencies and legislative bodies on behalf of WCS’s strategic conservation objectives in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The European Policy and Government Relations Director will:
* Shape WCS policy engagement in Europe support of the conservation programs, so as to (a) align policy initiatives and consequent funding opportunities with WCS conservation priorities, and (b) draw upon the expertise and experience within WCS to help identify, formulate, and articulate policy initiatives of the public sector in Europe.
* Building upon WCS’s existing policy expertise in Washington, both in the legislative and agency arenas, help support transatlantic linkages for conservation through (a) the coordination of WCS’s political and advocacy actions, and (b) coordination with WCS high-level agency-focused program development efforts in Europe.
* Support WCS’s policy engagement with multilateral institutions (World Bank, GEF, climate change financing mechanisms, FAO, etc.) related to the conservation of wildlife and wild lands by maintaining relationships with European participants in those processes.
* Within the framework of an annual workplan developed jointly with WCS Europe, represent WCS in European-based policy discussions with governments, multilateral institutions, treaty organizations and conservation organizations.
* Ensure an internally-consistent and mission-focused set of policy interventions in Europe.
To Apply:
http://www.wcs.org/about-us/careers.aspx
