Senior Officer, Squid Governance, International Fisheries

Application Deadline: Friday January 17, 2025

The Environmental Portfolio at The Pew Charitable Trusts

For more than 30 years, Pew has been a major force in engaging the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our environment work spans all seven continents with more than 250 professionals working at the local, national, and international levels to reduce the scope and severity of global environmental problems, such as the erosion of large natural ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity, and the destruction of the marine environment. Pew’s global environmental program focuses on science-based, nonpartisan, and sustainable solutions to help protect the planet and people. We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous rights holders, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, local stakeholders, scientists, and other researchers to advance public policy so that nature and communities can thrive.

Since 1990, Pew has worked in North America, South America and Australia to protect large and critically important terrestrial ecosystems, including rivers and other freshwater resources, coastal temperate rainforests, interior mountain ranges, the northern boreal forests, Australia’s Outback, and Chilean Patagonia. We work to ensure these natural systems remain bountiful, functioning, and resilient, providing essential ecological services such as clean air and clean water, sustenance and food security for local communities and more broadly for the welfare of current and future generations. Our work relies on the sciences of conservation, sociology, biology, and economics to advocate for practical and durable solutions to the loss of biodiversity.

In the sea, reforms to how our oceans are managed are essential to address overfishing, pollution, and loss of habitat. Pew began its oceans program in the United States, focusing on ending overfishing and protecting fragile marine habitat. Starting in 2005, Pew’s ocean conservation program expanded around the world and played a significant role in reforming marine fisheries management in the European Union and on the high seas and creating large scale marine reserves around the world. Our work is grounded in the best available science and pursues domestic and international conservation measures that are long-term and provide permanent, durable protections for marine ecosystems. We also work to address systemic threats to the ocean, including from plastics, over-and-illegal fishing, seabed mining, and climate change.

International Fisheries

Pew’s international fisheries work aims to protect marine biodiversity and provide food and livelihoods for a growing population by addressing in specific, targeted contexts one of the ocean’s main threats—inadequate management and control of large-scale fishing activities. Organized into three projects, our main areas of work include: the advancement of precautionary harvest strategies and effective compliance regimes for international fisheries (RFMO Policy); improved policies and actions aimed at ending illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (Ending Illegal Fishing); and the advancement of ecosystem considerations in the management of fisheries (Ecosystem Conservation).

Position Overview

The senior officer, Squid Governance, International Fisheries plays an important role in securing improved oversight of global squid fisheries by key governments and international bodies, including through collaboration with other Pew projects and external organizations working on related topics and in targeted regions. Reporting to the project director, the senior officer works alongside subject leads across the international fisheries portfolio, and collaborates with colleagues across the Ending Illegal Fishing, Ecosystem Conservation and RFMO Policy teams to identify opportunities and conduct efforts to improve the governance of unregulated and under-regulated squid fisheries

Located in Pew’s London, UK office or Brussels, Belgium office, this position will participate in Pew’s core in-office days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and will have flexibility to work from home the remainder of each week, as business needs permit.

Responsibilities

• Foster a work environment that is diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible and in line with Pew and the project’s related goals.
• Collaborate with the project director, Ecosystem Conservation, to lead the design and implementation of strategies to strengthen the governance of global squid fisheries working with key programmatic leads and relevant consultants to engage governments and institutions to build international support for governance improvements.
• Actively lead coordination and collaboration with Pew’s other campaigns that work on marine conservation, resource management, and habitat protection to align strategies to engage relevant governments and regional bodies.
• Communicate with, and in some cases, manage consultants engaged by the campaign to advance its objectives.
• Forge and maintain relationships with important policymakers, conservation groups, expert bodies, and other constituencies to advance campaign objectives. Collaborate with other allies in the field to maximize the likelihood of achieving identified objectives.
• Serve as a spokesperson on relevant campaign issues within identified fora. This includes representing the Trusts at meetings, conferences, and/or on expert panels/groups, authoring articles and other communications, and providing interviews to outside sources.
• Develop policy and/or scientific papers, reports, and other communications materials on these topics, as needed. Review and provide comments on external policy proposals, regulations, and white papers, as needed.
• Represent Pew’s environment campaigns in relevant international bodies and participate in activities that support program and Pew-wide objectives.

Requirements

• Demonstrated aptitude to work with a diverse team, including respectfully mentoring staff in their development as advocates and supporting delivery of wide-ranging Pew objectives.
• Effective interpersonal skills. Develops and manages productive relationships with colleagues, consultants, partners, and others who contribute to the campaign. Highly diplomatic; works productively with a broad array of people and institutions.
• Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills, and highly results oriented. Demonstrated experience meeting multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization.
• Skilled at informing and influencing internal and external audiences through written and oral communications. Experience synthesizing large amounts of information, presenting ideas clearly and persuasively, and communicating complex ideas to the public.
• Demonstrated skill overseeing and managing contracts with external vendors.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• It is likely that a successful candidate for this role will have at least ten years’ experience.

Key attributes and preferred experience

• Demonstrated experience engaging in advocacy on relevant fisheries and/or governance topics with policymakers in governments or multi-lateral organizations preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of the interplay between international instruments and international fisheries management, including the challenges around unregulated fishing, and processes and policies impacting fisheries regulation and governance.
• Experience with public speaking.
• Experience with formal and informal mentorship.
• Naturally develops and manages productive and collaborative relationships.
• Working knowledge of a second language a plus.

Travel

This position requires frequent domestic and international travel to meetings and conferences.

Salary Range

The salary range represents a reasonable estimate of the annual salary based on Pew’s commitment to provide equitable and market-competitive pay. The actual salary offered will take into consideration many factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills and experience, internal pay equity, and business need.

Total Rewards

This position offers a competitive salary and benefit program.

The Pew Charitable Trusts is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Pew considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity, military/veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.