Sustainable Fisheries, Senior Program Coordinator

**Sustainable Fisheries, Senior Program Coordinator**

Conservation International protects nature for the benefit of humanity. Through science, policy, fieldwork, and finance, we spotlight and secure the most important places in nature for the climate, biodiversity, and for people. With offices in 30 countries and projects in more than 100 countries, Conservation International partners with governments, companies, civil society, Indigenous peoples, and local communities to help people and nature thrive together.

** - This position is based in Apia, Samoa**

The Senior Program Coordinator oversees the design and implementation of Jurisdictional Approaches for Pacific Tuna in Samoa. They will manage a diverse workstream and provide technical and programmatic support for CI’s Jurisdictional Approach initiatives in Samoa, working with governments, human rights and labour groups, environmental organizations, market partners, certification bodies, civil society, fishing communities, and other key stakeholders to co-identify key environmental, social, and economic improvement areas in Pacific tuna fisheries, and design potential solutions through policy and market
- based approaches to support social responsibility and environmental sustainability in the region.

The Senior Program Coordinator will conduct a regulatory analysis of regional, national, and fishery-level key enabling conditions and relationships required to strengthen a JA initiative in Samoa waters to (i) sustain tuna stocks and catches through the growing climate crisis, and (ii) safeguard the fundamental human rights of crew, communities, and observers.

This role includes the implementation of project activities that specifically relate to human rights, social responsibility, environmental sustainability, climate change, seafood market, and supply chain strategies. Project management includes projects built around relationships with CI’s Global Fisheries and Aquaculture Program, human and labour rights organizations, and multi-lateral agencies, as well as the development and implementation of work plans associated with multi-stakeholder alliances. They work to ensure that program outcomes and goals further Conservation International’s (CI’s) human development and conservation priorities.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Supports the strategic development of jurisdictional approaches (at the country level (Samoa) and regional scales) for tuna fisheries, working with governments, market partners, civil society, and other key stakeholders to co-identify key improvement areas in Pacific tuna fisheries, and design potential environmental, social, and economic solutions through policy and market-based approaches.
- Conducts regulatory analysis of regional, national, and fishery-level human rights and labor policies in Samoa and the Western Central Pacific Ocean, to identify compliance risks applicable to crew, communities, observers, and regulatory capacity. Designs human rights policy commitment recommendations for industry partners operating in the WCPO, specifically Samoa— with respect to WCPO regulations and WCPFC labour and human rights policies, and in line with the Monterey Framework, that establish measures on issues such as Flags of Convenience (FoCs), beneficial ownership and supporting coastal communities.
- Conduct a desk-based landscape assessment to identify key Environmental and Economic Improvement areas in Samoa, and regionally.
- Forge partnerships with key national agencies, appropriate government authorities, and key human rights, labour, and environment partners in Samoa and the Pacific Islands Region to build environmental and social improvements into actionable work plans, identifying systems, tools, and technologies to monitor, verify, and improve social performance and working with private sector partners to develop accountability mechanisms.
- Supports the identification of opportunities for program growth and development, including through partnerships with regional agencies like the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Organization of Migration (IOM), The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), and others.
- Develops and implements program strategies, project management, technical oversight, monitoring and capacity building.
- Represents CI as a key technical resource and builds alliances with key external stakeholders including human and labour rights groups, government and NGO officials, donors, and others critical to project success.
- Co-leads dissemination of project results, including but not limited to presentations to RFMOs and national governments about human rights issues and improvements in Pacific Island tuna fisheries.
- Ensures compliance with CI policies, program and funding agreements, and local requirements.

Additional Responsibilities
- Include other d