Born in Scotland, raised in Spain, with 6 years each in Solomon Islands and Costa Rica and 18 years in the Pacific Region based in Fiji. He has been a key adviser to Locally Managed Marine Area Network (LMMA) in Asia and the Pacific since its inception in 2000. Currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at University of the South Pacific’s School of Law and Social Science (SoLaSS) as well as board member of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), Fiji Environmental Law Association (FELA) and the journal Marine Policy.
Hugh has worked to improve indigenous and local management approaches including extending community-driven Pacific Island approaches to resource management into a global phenomenon while increasingly paying attention to factors such as rights, legislation and institutional support that might best ensure local fishers are empowered to sustain their livelihoods in coastal areas. This has led to increasing work on areas of major challenge – sustainable finance, government co-management investments and governance (transparency and accountability).
His free-lance work for national governments, regional agencies (such as SPC) and international ones (e.g. FAO) covers policy as well as practice from the community and sub-national level, to national and regional levels in the Island Pacific. He is the second author of the region’s overarching ocean policy, the Framework for a Pacific Oceanscape, carried out reviews (including institutional capacity for resource management, the links between policy and staff duties at the sub-national level and agencies’ staffing and budgets) for the co-drafting of the Pacific Island policies on coastal fisheries, including PNG’s Roadmap for coastal fisheries and marine aquaculture: 2017-2026 and most recently the Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up Community-based Fisheries Management: 2021-2025. Current interests include improving local returns from sea cucumber fisheries and the politics of international interest in the Pacific Islands Ocean domain.
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MarAlliance es una organización internacional sin ánimo de lucro registrada en EE.UU., Belice, Panamá y Cabo Verde, cuyo objetivo es explorar, facilitar e inspirar cambios positivos para la fauna marina amenazada, especialmente tiburones y rayas, sus hábitats críticos y las comunidades humanas dependientes. Nuestra misión es amplia y ambiciosa, y trabajamos en tres idiomas y en siete países de tres regiones. Ante el declive de muchas poblaciones de megafauna marina, estas especies necesitan una voz fuerte, eficaz y con base científica que las represente para ayudar a los socios dependientes a dar forma a las estrategias y acciones de gestión y conservación para invertir el declive.
Buscamos a un becario (6 meses) proactivo, con conocimientos digitales y excelente capacidad de redacción y edición de textos, que apoye la creación de contenidos escritos de alta calidad y recursos multicanal para difundir el trabajo que MarAlliance realiza a través de sus plataformas en línea (sitio web, redes sociales, boletín, entre otras) y fuera de línea, y que interactúe con nuestro público externo para contribuir a nuestros objetivos generales de comunicación y marketing. El Asistente de Comunicación dependerá directamente del Coordinador de Comunicación y Marketing, y trabajará en estrecha colaboración con el resto del equipo para apoyarles en los elementos de comunicación de su trabajo.
Estipendio durante 6 meses.
Español, con fluidez en inglés
Nacionales o residentes de Panamá, Belice, México, Honduras, Guatemala.
Este contrato será a distancia dentro de las zonas horarias de América, flexible, a tiempo completo y desde casa con hasta un 10% de viajes ocasionales locales e internacionales.
Por favor, envíe su currículum, portfolio si lo tiene, y carta de presentación a info@maralliance.org con “MAR-CA_Apellido” en el asunto antes del 21 de marzo, 2024. No se admiten llamadas.
MarAlliance is an international non-profit registered in the US, Belize, Panama and Cabo Verde that aims to explore, enable and inspire positive changes for threatened marine wildlife – notably sharks and rays – their critical habitats and dependent human communities. Our remit is broad and ambitious, and we work in three languages and across seven countries encompassed by three regions. In the face of declines in many populations of marine megafauna, these species need a strong, effective, and science-based voice to represent them to help dependent partners shape management and conservation strategies and action to reverse declines.
We are seeking for a proactive, digitally savvy Paid Intern (6 month) Communications Assistant with excellent writing and copy editing skills, who will support the creation of high-quality written content and multichannel assets to broadcast the work MarAlliance does through its online (website, social media, newsletter, among others) and offline platforms, and engage with our external audiences to contribute to our overall communications and marketing goals. The Communications Assistant will directly report consistently to the Communications and Marketing Coordinator, and work closely with the rest of the team to support them on the communications elements of their work.
Stipend for 6 month.
English, Spanish are mandatory.
Panama, Belize, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala nationals or residents.
This contract will be remote within the Americas time zones, flexible, full-time and home-based with up to 10% occasional local and international travel.
Please send your resume, portfolio if you have one, and cover letter to info@maralliance.org with “MAR-CA_Last name” in the subject line by 21st of March, 2024. No calls please.
