Government Partnerships And Capacity Development Specialist

Summary

Join Global Fishing Watch as a Capacity Development Program Officer and contribute to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency. Based remotely in Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, or Senegal, you will develop and deliver training for national and regional partners in Africa on IUU fishing reduction, biodiversity, and small-scale fisheries. Collaborate closely with the Global Practice and Africa regional teams to ensure excellence in capacity development interventions. Your responsibilities include contextualizing and delivering training packages, adapting content for specific partners, cultivating partnerships, and representing GFW at events. This role requires a university degree, five years of relevant fisheries experience, and strong communication and training skills. Preferred qualifications include a master's degree and familiarity with fisheries compliance and monitoring data. GFW offers competitive compensation, flexible working hours, pension/retirement, and health benefits.

Requirements

• University degree in a relevant field
• Minimum five years of relevant fisheries experience
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Genuine interest in learning from and developing others through the delivery of engaging and needs-driven capacity development work packages specific to each country
• Experience in capacity development and/or education and developing training materials
• Demonstrated training, mentoring, and facilitation skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to cultivate partnerships remotely across cultures
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent ability to establish relationships of trust and influence with partners
• Experience working with governments in African countries
• Experience in developing and maintaining systematic and transparent records and version control in order to keep track of training package development, delivery and maintenance through learning cycles
• Basic technical ability, and familiarity with Slack, Google Suite
• Readiness to fully embrace electronic tools for remote work and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Contextualize and deliver high quality capacity development work packages
• Together with the Senior Manager, Africa, lead the successful execution of Africa regional and core country capacity development work
• Monitor, report, and cohere various work plans and implementation of capacity development interventions in Africa
• Adapt centralized training content to tailor it to specific country partners and stakeholders
• Cultivate genuine and high quality GFW partnerships with target stakeholders of our capacity building interventions
• Maintain an expert level of awareness of the GFW external datasets
• Systematically engage and communicate clearly with the Senior Manager, Africa, the Head and Manager of Capacity Development and external partners and ensure cohesion across various capacity development efforts in the region
• Coordinate training delivery and support logistics
• Co-develop and roll out MEL indicators as it relates to capacity development in Africa
• Document learning, reporting and the sharing of practice
• Prioritise Global Practice efforts to document and share learning, supporting a culture of cross regional sharing throughout the delivery of the capacity development work plans
• Support regional teams in their capacity development interventions as tasked
• Prepare outreach materials and other appropriate knowledge and communications content as required
• Represent Global Fishing Watch at meetings, conferences and other events nationally and internationally to communicate our work
• Together with the Senior Manager, Africa Act as one of the primary contacts for external donors and partners that are supporting the capacity development efforts in the region

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant area or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with data and information needs for fisheries compliance and monitoring, with willingness to keep up to date with datasets and new technologies as required for training delivery
• Working knowledge of French and / or another national or regional language spoken in Africa
• Experience working in Senegal, Madagascar or Gabon
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects

Benefits

• Pension/retirement
• Health and other benefits commensurate with similar level GFW employees in the country of employment
• Flexible working